She famously said "I'LL EAT WHEN AM DEAD", just so she could fit into those avant garde couture creations!thats Daphne Guinnes for u!long before the lady gagas of the world,she was out on the streets in the most out there ensembles and she wore the heeless shoes long before gaga n the likes did!what seperates Daphne from the likes of gaga is that she looks like a work of art everytime she steps out!she has an avant garde and a whimsical sense of style and is always covered in head to toe couture!She is so passionate about couture that she single-handedly bought the entire wardrobe of her late friend Isabella Blow before it was even able to make it into auction. The wardrobe consisted of 90 Alexander McQueen outfits, several early dresses from John Galliano and 50 Philip Treacy hats. She said, “It’s Issy – it’s her D.N.A, it should not be scattered to the four winds,”
excerpts from her vogue italia interview:
Name Daphne Suzannah Diana Joan Guinness.
About her
Daphne is a fashion connoisseur, and is fascinated also by men’s fashion: she is capable of telling apart the subtle nuance variations of a Huntsman’s 1925 suit from a 1929 one (also because she owns both).
With her mother, she would spend her summers in Cadaqués, Spain. Often by Salvador Dalì ‘s pool that, she recalls, was “full of lobsters”. Hanging out with them Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Richard Hamilton. But she was very young and had no idea who they really were: “They were just neighbours to me”.
The origins
She is the daughter of beer heir Jonathan Guinness and his French wife Suzanne Lisney.
At 19 she married Stavros Niarchos, with whom she has three children (Nicolas, Alexis and Ines). At that time she starts collecting couture: “I found that fashion became an extension of self.” She divorced in 1999.
After seeing her at a party wearing a rather flamboyant hat, her great friend Isabella Blow suggests that she collaborates with Tatler as fashion editor
What does she do
“I do ideas”.
Bernard-Henri Lévi told her once:
“You are not a person anymore, you’ve become a concept”.
Alternative projects
She has financed and produced the film Cashback, by Sean Ellis, that earned a nomination for the Academy Awards. She has designed a collection of white shirts for London’s Dover Street Market.
She has shot a short-film: The Phenomenology of Body.
She has posed for all the greatest photographers, from Steven Klein to David LaChapelle.
She has developed the fragrance Daphne for Comme des Garçons.
She has taken part in the video Pursuit of Happiness by KiD CuDi.
She is fascinated by the production process and is “interested in absolutely everything, except football”.
Shoes Killer heels: she was the first to wear Alexander McQueen’s Armadillo shoes in public.
Jewelry “It doesn’t have to be real”: she loves style, but not showing off. She has collaborated with Shaun Leane, jewel designer for Alexander McQueen, for a jewellery line inspired by armour.
Hair Until some time ago she sported blonde, very light hair, with two big distinctive dark locks. When we last met she had brown hair: “I’m going through this black phase now, it’s my fetish colour”.
Her style “Surely I’m not a conformist. I don’t think I belong to any category”.
Style advice “Follow your instinct.”
Good habits Reads the papers, does yoga, takes a walk every day and sees her friends very often.
Besides, she recycles second-hand clothes. She will wear the same outfit more than once, because “clothes must be lived in”. And has put up for auction most of her “Fabergé Egg” period wardrobe (this is what she calls the years of her marriage to Niarchos) and donated all proceedings to Womankind.
Bad habits She worries too much, about everything.
She loves Friends and family, first of all. Reading (“I can sit for hours dissecting abook on English grammar”) and going to the Opera. She has got a stunning voice, though: before getting married she had ambitions of becoming an opera singer and used to take singing lessons.
She hates Intolerance, racism, ignorance and the modern obsession for what she calls “celebrity culture”.
The dry-cleaner’s: “My idea of heaven would be to open up a proper, old-fashioned laundry, where shirts could be laundered in a proper, old-fashioned way.”
She’s crazy for Uniforms and armour : “A kind of disguise, a way to become invisible”.
Feathers, birds, the idea of flying.
Favourite dress A very simple grey flannel dress by Alexander McQueen.
Favourite cities Paris and New York.
Favourite shops Dover Street Market in London, and flea markets all around the world
Favourite designers Her friend Alexander McQueen:
“He put to rest the idea that fashion is not art. He was an artist”.
Balenciaga (“Revolutionary”), Karl Lagerfeld (“An inimitable wonder”), Valentino (“Makes every woman look stunning”).
Her icons Her grandmother, her mother.
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