Well if she is not, then why does she know so much about fashion, hmm? Simon Doonan (window dresser; homosexual; short) meets the First Lady for White House holiday decorating: "Her long-standing interest in style makes the process easy: She likes the 'softer, more Romeo Gigli colors.' She agrees with my suggestion that we should use 'a Lanvin-ish antique-looking glitter' instead of anything too sparkly. While Mrs. Obama loves the idea of 'the Wish Tree,' an interactive piece created by a Hoboken-based company named Cardboard Design, her most enthusiastic response is reserved for the 800 recycled silver balls that are proposed for the monumental Blue Room Tree. Together we [...]

I expected to hate this little Ariel Levy New Yorker profile of Simon Doonan and his potter-husband Jonathan Adler (who I do not know and yet dislike intensely) and yet I found it utterly charming! Ariel Levy could basically feed me boiled rancid rabbit droppings and I would be like "unlike what I obviously expected, this is yummy?" Doonan's notable quotable: "If Virginia Woolf had had two days a week at the ham counter at Harrods, she mightn't have offed herself."