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Article: Simon on display. (Barneys New York's creative director Simon Doonan) (Interview)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- November 23, 1992
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NEW YORK - Interviewing Simon Doonan is more like meeting with a CIA operative than the vice president and creative director of Barneys New York. The words "top secret" were practically stamped across Doonan's forehead when he arrived at Barneys' Le Cafe, and at the mention of this year's Christmas windows, which open tonight, a red-alert button sounded.
"It's all in various secret locations," said Doonan. "The dolls are in one area, the caricatures in another studio, and all the branch-store stuff in another."
Why the cloak-and-dagger tactics? After all, these are department store windows, not nuclear weapons. On the other hand, they're not your ...