"Her appearance is so interesting it suggests that her appearance is the least interesting thing about her." - The New Yorker on Daphne Guinness, Sept 2011
Here's the thing about Daphne. She's the daughter of the Guinness brewery heir (and therefore heiress herself), and Diana Mitford of the famous Mitford sisters. She was friends with Lee McQueen and Isabella Blow, and recently saved Ms. Blow's clothing collection from going up for sale and instead made it into an exhibit. She's done collaborations with MAC, worked with Chanel, Philip Treacy, and Gareth Pugh. FIT hosted a gallery of her couture collection. She is all at once heiress, model, muse, designer, collector, and supreme bad ass bitch. And she wears gigantic shoes that make you feel like the underling you are, and clothes that cost more than your soul, and looks consistently like she rules the world by day and sacrifices things to the devil at night. And I love her.
"Fashion is not just about trends. It’s about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the ’80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. At the end of the Roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the Roman Empire. In the same way, the ’60s were a reaction against the ’50s and so on. But now we’ve been feeding on a sort of cadaver. At the moment, we’re just endlessly recycling the past." - Daphne to Interview Magazine
Wearing Alexander McQueen for Vanity Fair, then at Lee McQueen's funeral
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