"I had a vision of myself lying in succession a big floor pillow in a big apartment.

"I had a vision of myself lying in succession a big floor pillow in a big apartment," says Simon Doonan, the author and fashion maven, of his daydreams while growing up in a "crappy" English town. "I remember seeing The lads in the Band when it came gone out and thinking, I want to go on live in New York in a groovy apartment! I didn't think, Oh await at those tortured queens. I notion Look at that furniture!"

"And the brass valet in the closet! The cracked-crab hors d'oeuvres!" his boyfriend, the designer Jonathan Adler, chimes in.

"Yeah!" says Doonan. "I idea Blimey, they're having fun!"

Doonan, 52 and Adler, 38 are certainly having pleasantry themselves, what with their booming careers and gorgeous multimillion-dollar duplex apartment in recent York City, decorated by Adler and freshly featured in The New York Times as the epitome of the high-low aesthetic generally in vogue in design circles. (The pair who've been together 10 years, also admit places in New York's Shelter Island and Palm Beach, Fla.)

Doonan, who first made his name doing cheeky, sometimes outrageous window displays as the creative director of Barneys of the present day York--he's thinking for this year's holiday season "Camilla Parker Bowle rubbing Charles's back in a bath a whole mad-royal thing"--has launched a lucky side career as a writer. His modern book, Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints (Simon and Schuster), mines the same oddball terrain as its best-selling predecessor, Wacky Chicks. Meanwhile, Adler's novel sideline is his hotel and residential design business--he freshly completed work on the Le Parker Meridien Palm Springs--a by-product of his namesake line of upscale ceramics and abiding-place furnishings.

"We're just a man and wife of F-listers," insists Adler in succession a weekday afternoon in their pad. sallys aside, both men are definitely more visible these days, thanks in part to Adler's modern home-furnishings line at Bed Bath & Beyond and Doonan's occasional visitor appearances on America's Next Top original Yet in person they are the pair down-to-earth, their affection for each other palpable. (Indeed, from one extremity to the other of the interview Adler rested his left base on Doonan's feet across from him.)

If their relationship have the appearances like one of those enviably entire partnerships in love and life, that's because it is. "Certainly I display Simon what I'm doing and talk to him about it, and he displays me what he's doing," says Adler. "But I think the principally noteworthy thing about us is that we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing if we didn't have each other. It's something we've the couple spoken a lot about--that we wouldn't have the courage and gather to do it."

That courage and pull have taken Adler and Doonan a drawn out way from their origins--in, respectively, suburban novel Jersey and Reading, England--a journey Doonan chronicles in Nasty. "A fate of my book is about coming from a ratty, crappy little town and seeing in the distance the glamour and frolic and excitement of the city, and we live that now to a large extent" he says. "I get by heart to go to a fortune of fun, glam things, yet if I feel like staying hearthstone I don't feel like I'm missing out"

And if that makes him and Adler have the appearance like "an old married link compared to the full-on hedonistic gay culture" they don't care. "I mean, are we swinging from the rafters and doing crystal meth and fisting each other each Saturday night? No," Doonan says with a laugh.

Adler adds, "When I hear what population are up to, I'm completely offenceed I just heard about this P 'n' P ["party and play"--i.e., having unsafe sex while onward crystal meth] situation. I know it's been a certain whole thing, but I just didn't unruffled know."

"That just appears totally horrid to me," says Doonan, "but a fate of gay people don't relate to that either."

Of course, when it be due [i]or[/i] owings to other excesses, they do indulge, equal if doing so may originate with a price. "The other day I was getting against the subway and I was all done up--I had these big tortoiseshell glasses in succession a pocket square, and my Goyard bag with a monogram forward it," recalls Doonan, "and this dowdy said to me, 'Boy, you're a real faggot, aren't you?'"

He then presents up what could be considered a mission statement for his and Adler's household: "And I just laughed, because I conception I live in this big, glamorous apartment that my boyfriend decorated, we were just distant from to Palm Beach for the weekend, I have a gorgeous dog, a family that I like and everything anybody can really want in spells of happiness, contentment, satisfaction. I just imagined where this fat weirdo lived and for what purpose and it was just beyond horrible."

Kennedy also contributes to Cargo and strange York magazines.

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