Last night I trekked uptown to Barneys to witness the meeting of two of my favorite personalities in fashion: Donatella Versace and Barneys Creative Director Simon Doonan. The two were there to celebrate the launch of Versace's menswear collection, and, for an amazing ten minutes, posed behind a glass partition together. Luckily, videographer Alex Goldberg was there to both capture Donatella and the reactions of one very, very vocal paparazzo who is apparently no fan of the Versace look. Clip above.
Donatella Versace As God Intended Her: Behind Glass
12:00 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Jennifer
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Last night I trekked uptown to Barneys to witness the meeting of two of my favorite personalities in fashion: 

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My first thought every time I see her face?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
I just refreshed my page and her face popped up, and I jumped about three feet out of my chair!! Terrifying.
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: Jinx. Almost.
@NotAPrettyGirl: She looks like Chrissy Snow and Mr. Furley had sex.
No, no, no... that's Mickey Rourke in his drag persona, Micketini.
Where's the fact-checking around here?
She looks like a muppet. Have people commented on that or am I actually being original?
Ok, so here we are validating that a woman's looks are what defines her.
And judging by that paps career choice, he should not call any one ugly and talk about sins.
That random paparazzo is just not holding back. I kind of agree though, what would posess someone to make themselves look like a muppet? She was so beautiful without plastic surgery.
GET OUUTTT!!!
Awesome dress. And, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, catty photog dude.
I think it's (more) okay to judge women's looks if the looks are ones the women have chosen and accomplished through plastic surgery.
@Sugarless:
It's not funny is it? and I laugh A LOT.
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: HAHA! Somehow a Three's Company reference was SO appropriate here. I am cracking up all alone in my cubicle!
My friend used to work at the women's fragrance counter at the Bloomingdales's in the Beverly Center. He said she came in once, SMOKING and the only word she said to him the entire time was "Chanel! Chanel!". To this day he still has no idea what he rung her up for, it was that traumatic.
I will forever love her for that.
@liloslifecoach: I've said that before, too. Simon and Donatella look like Dr. Teeth and Janice.
Aw leave her face alone.
@NotAPrettyGirl: I feel as if I've besmirched the memory of Don Knotts.
Yeah, I had the same thoughts about "I shouldn't put her down for the way she looks"...but DAMN. You would think that someone with that much money wouldn't look like she'd shut her lips in a door. And as several others have pointed out, she apparently WANTED to look this way, with surgery. Ick.
She's leathery. Her daughter is so pretty now that she's gotten treatment for her anorexia and gained a few pounds. I imagine that's what Donatella used to look like, before her tanning and plastic surgery. And drugs, I imagine.
@dontbogartthewine: If only she would!
I...have nothing at all nice to say.
@Sugarless: Except that she looks the way she does because she has willfully altered her appearance. I mean, I would not make fun of someone who can't help the way they look, but Donatella here bleaches, botoxes, tans and sculpts herself to look like the cariacature she has become.
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: Never! Not possible. He's the greatest. He'd laugh at your comment. I'm sure of it.
@amyltall: Unless of course she likes her face and doesn't feel she needs to change it.
I'm not attacking, just wondering why it is so shocking that someone with money would change themselves to please someone else.
@funnyface:
And clearly she's altered her appearance to something she currently enjoys....so why change it for others?
@funnyface: Yes! I was going to say the same thing. If she were naturally unattractive, I wouldn't say a thing about her. This is self-inflicted and open for public scrutiny.
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: Ok, if that doesn't win a best comment of the day, there is no justice.
@zivah: Or being hit in the face by a shovel.
I don't care if she decides to get enough plastic surgery to turn her face inside out. I am worried about all the tanning, though. Good God woman, you're asking for a melanoma.
@Sugarless: I'm not asking her to change it. I'm just sayin', it's OK to snark on someone if they MAKE themselves look ridiculous.
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: I stand corrected: if that comment doesn't win a best comment of the day there is no justice.
@funnyface: And has no ass anymore, because it has all been injected into her lips.
I rode up an elevator with Donatella Versace and her entourage last year when my dad was hospitalized at UCLA. I think her outfit cost more than my entire wardrobe.
@NefariousNewt: Well, yeah. Or that.
Her best hope is to let her bangs grow over her nose, across her lips and around her neck.
@NefariousNewt: How nice of you to say. I had my Wheaties this morning. (Okay, it was a bagel, but you get the idea.)
@nolongerinacubiclebutstillawhore: Now I kind of love her too. That's a great story.
She frightens me.
@TheFormerJuneBronson:
I RAN right into that one. Oi.
@Sugarless: When people make their living off their looks, and by telling other people what they should wear, we can judge them all we want.
@AthertonMerriweather: Best. Sketch. Ever. I spent half of high school doing my impression of Maya Rudolph's impression of Donatella Versace. The best one is when she has the children's show and has a nylons "sock" puppet. "What do you want to do today Mr. Sock Puppet? 'I want to smoke cigarettes and look good.' Oh! I love you. Get out of here before I love you too much."
Does anyone else want to brush her bangs out of her eyes? Its bugging me something fierce.....
@nolongerinacubiclebutstillawhore: OMG, I love to think she makes people go all JESUS CHRIST IT'S DONATELLA GET IN THE CAR.
Whatever. She looks like dude from the TV version of Beauty and the Beast. You know, the one with Linda Hamilton. Fuck it.
Was that Maya Rudolph yelling, "Donnatella! Donnatella!"??
@AthertonMerriweather: Exactly what I was thinking!
@DeeJayQueue: She makes her living from fashion/housewares. I believe her brother started the business and she continued after his death. If she were a plastic surgeon advocating others to have her face I could see the point.
My objection isn't the comments on what she was wearing but rather the ones about her face.
It is her face - she's the one that must live with it. If she used surgery to get to this point then she must like the way her face looks.
I just choose not to bash a woman about her physical appearance.
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Simon Doonan should hire her as cheif security @ Barney's.. Scare the theives..
Simon is my hero. That DV quote on the glass, genius.
I'm not saying she's ugly; that would be cruel. I'm just saying she's funny-looking. Funny=odd. Funny=haha. Either definition works.
@Sugarless: She chose to make money by telling others how they should look. Turnabout is fair play. If she's going to peddle clothes and jewelry and fragrances, her face shouldn't look like a bowl of chili that a car drove over.