Ouch.
Simon Doonan has been given the Andre Leon Talley treatment and stripped of his creative director title at Barneys New York.
From now on, Simon will be referred to as the “Creative Ambassador-at-Large”, while Dennis Freedman assumes the 25 year veteran’s role.
The department store insists the new title is a promotion, but others beg to differ.
As one source puts it “Simon has been the face of Barneys for a long time, and you could say that face just got a slap”, while another adds “Nobody gets promoted to anything with ‘at-large’ in the title”.
Simon seems to be taking the change the best he can, but hasn’t been “acting himself” and seems “sad about the whole business”.
Can’t say we blame him.
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