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September 10, 2008 11:45 am
If you thought you spotted Barneys creative director Simon Doonan spinning around town in the back of a Volkswagen bug this week, occasionally in the company of Barneys babes Dawn Brown and Julie Gilhart, you weren’t experiencing a fashion-induced hallucination—it really is happening. And while he might be old enough to have had an original Beetle (only kidding, Simon!), this one is worth more than nostalgia: When the perfectly metropolitan automobile is raffled off later this year—tickets are going for a cool $100—proceeds will go to benefit the Volkswagen Carbon Neutral Project, which is making great strides to help reduce the auto industry’s effects on the environment. “No, it’s not made of tofu,” Doonan told us. “But it’s a terrific program and a terrific cause.” Good for the environment, perhaps, but sandwiching the Barneys team into the car has not been entirely trouble-free. “First, Julie had a bronchial infection,” Doonan continued. “And now the driver has one. Well, we’re not taking any chances—now we drive with the windows down, which Dawn hates ’cause it messes her hair.”
tags: Barneys New York, Simon Doonan, Volkswagen
