A Couple We Can Believe In: Fashion Version

Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler are so individually fabulous. First, let’s start with Adler, who is a New Jersey-born potter-turned-interiors mogul. The purveyor of “happy chic” home stuff through his stores, Adler created the rustic, eclectic and anti-minimalism insides of the Parker Palm Springs hotel, where we’d vacation forever if we could. Then, there’s Doonan. As scribes who’ve penned a fashion article or thousand in our time, we have a soft spot for the pixie-like creative director of Barneys New York. In a business full of characters, Doonan stands out – and it’s not just because of his loud Liberty shirts and other way-out-there get-ups. His parched-dry wit (on Kate Moss: “a working class slag from a crap town, like me”) is tempered by his mellifluous British accent in person. On the page for his New York Observer columns and in his various tomes, Doonan is both erudite and bloody hilarious. The two met on a blind date, married in San Francisco and now live in “palatial gay fantasia” in New York’s Greenwich Village. In this New Yorker ‘Talk of the Town’ piece, which appeared as the TV adaption of Doonan’s memoir Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints debuted in the U.S., we got a look inside the doors of casa Adler-Doonan. The paisley ping-pong table (amongst the other fantastical design details like garden gnomes in the foyer) confirmed our suspicions that these are two really are a match made in gay heaven.