Daphne Guinness

[LUXXX]

I was always so curious to see what her husband looked like and then fashionista posted a photo of the two of them together from the 80s...she seriously used to look like a prep school student in Connecticut! So interesting to see her evolution...she's much darker now.

 

[wild roses]

Not sure if posted already - good interview with UK Telegraph magazine

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8593890/Daphne-Guinnesss-glove-story.html

Thanks for posting this. Definitely one of the most thoughtful interviews done with her. I really enjoyed reading it.

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I can't imagine Daphne looking conventional! Ever. Methinks I'll have to browse through the older threads so I can see what her version of "conventional" pre-divorce, looked liked.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

How fabulous is SHE!?

fashionmagazine.com

 

[Tatiana0]

Thanks for posting this. Definitely one of the most thoughtful interviews done with her. I really enjoyed reading it.

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I can't imagine Daphne looking conventional! Ever. Methinks I'll have to browse through the older threads so I can see what her version of "conventional" pre-divorce, looked liked.

You're welcome wild roses. I agree with you about the interview.

Does anyone have her current The New Yorker magazine interview they could post? Wonder how it compares to the Telegraph interview?

 

[anina]

Has anyone got their hands on the book yet? Any tidbits perchance?

http://www.amazon.com/Daphne-Guinness-Valerie-Steele/dp/0300176635

 

[anina]

Sorry for double posting but I only just stumbled upon all these pictures HQ I'd never seen here before so I just had to share them with you!


STYLE EVOLUTION: DAPHNE GUINNESS

Daphne Guinness at a Vouge Party, Zuma Restaurant 2002


Daphne Guinness, Road To Perdition Movie Premiere, 2002


Daphne Guinness and Annabel Nielson 2003


Daphne Guinness and Tom Hollander, La Dolce Vita Party 2003


Daphne Guinness, 2003


Daphne Guinness at the British Fashion Awards, 2005


Daphne Guinness, Chanel Haute Couture, PFW 2010

She looks so regal, I love how the woman next to her looks all confused. What is this ethreal being doing here on earth?!

source: http://www.fullfrontalfashion.com/photos/style-evolution-daphne-guiness/
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I highly reccommend taking a peek^, there are bigger versions of pictures we've seen before. You're able to see the details in her clothing very well and for example I didn't realise she wore her sky high Louboutins to Chanel HC SS04!! Bless!

 

[cygnenoir]

Has anyone got their hands on the book yet? Any tidbits perchance?

http://www.amazon.com/Daphne-Guinness-Valerie-Steele/dp/0300176635

Oh! The author is Valerie Steele so that must be the catalog for the upcoming FIT show. How I want to see that show!

And thanks for all of those photos anina!

 

[dajrekshn]

oh wow, so it's 2003 that this whole "concept thing" started, actually in a matter of months in 2003 she went from your typical socialite dressing up to the Daphne we know nowadays. i love how you can actually see bits and pieces in her old style that point to pieces she wears nowadays.thank you for the pics!

 

[Boomer]

Does anyone have her current The New Yorker magazine interview they could post? Wonder how it compares to the Telegraph interview?

I don't get The New Yorker and the interview is only on their premiem service, but here is the abstract- sounds like it is worth finding a copy...

ABSTRACT: PROFILE of Daphne Guinness.

Of the more than half million visitors who attended “Savage Beauty,” the Metropolitan Museum’s blockbuster show dedicated to the work of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, few felt more intimately acquainted with the works on display than Daphne Guinness. Guinness was a friend of McQueen, as well as an aficionado of his designs. She owned close duplicates of many of the clothes in the exhibition. Guinness has been variously described in the press as an heiress, a muse, a socialite, a designer, and an artist, and though all these characterizations are partly accurate, none quite conveys her affect, which is that of a slightly deranged fairy invented by C.S. Lewis. Her aesthetic is often futuristic, but she also appears to have come from a bygone age when getting dressed was considered a demanding form of self-expression, rather than an opportunity to wallow in spandex-enabled comfort. With her fondness for lace ruffles and velvet chokers and frock coats of the sort worn by Regency dandies, and the disciplined line of her silhouette, Guinness often resembles both a Gainsborough portrait of a lady and a Gainsborough portrait of the lady’s husband. Her appearance is so interesting it suggests that her appearance is the least interesting thing about her. Guinness’s father is Jonathan Guinness, a baron and an heir to the Irish brewery fortune; her grandmother was Diana Mitford, whom she resembles in appearance. Guinness married Spyros Niarchos, a son of Stavros Niarchos, the Greek shipping billionaire, in 1987, when she was nineteen. They had three children. Guinness was divorced in 2000 and returned to London with her children; in recent years, however, they have lived primarily with their father. For the past five years, Guinness has been involved with Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French philosopher and timber heir. Lévy is married to Arielle Dombasle, an actress and a chanteuse. This fall, the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology will devote one of its galleries to about a hundred of Guinness’s most important pieces. Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of the F.I.T. museum, puts Guinness in the lineage of Grace Kelly, Tina Chow, and Nan Kempner—women whose wearing of clothes amounts to a form of creativity in itself. Tells about Guinness’s friendship with Isabella Blow. Discusses Guinness’s family background and describes a recent photo shoot she did with Bryan Adams that paid homage to the career of David Bowie.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/26/110926fa_fact_mead#ixzz1ZdSP95YP

 

[anina]

Oh! The author is Valerie Steele so that must be the catalog for the upcoming FIT show. How I want to see that show!

And thanks for all of those photos anina!

I would love to see it too but I'm on the other side of the pond. How marvellous would it be if they could bring the collection over for show in London also? A girl can dream..

You're welcome. It's nice seeing how she's changed but still stayed the same. What I mean is I could still see Daphne wearing the boots from the first picture and the brooch from the second, you know? I think dajrekshn described what I tried to say better.

 

[Diorette]

Has anyone got their hands on the book yet? Any tidbits perchance?

http://www.amazon.com/Daphne-Guinness-Valerie-Steele/dp/0300176635

I received it a few days ago and was quite disappointed.
I haven't read it yet, only browsed through it.
It's just photos of her and her thoughts on different topics.
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the exhibition.

 

[anina]

I received it a few days ago and was quite disappointed.
I haven't read it yet, only browsed through it.
It's just photos of her and her thoughts on different topics.
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the exhibition.

That's a bit sad to hear. You'd think it would have had the potential for something more. Of course she's quite a private person so I understand that she doesn't want to spill her guts. It would have been great if it would have had more stuff about the exhibition though. Especially since I don't think I'll be able to see it myself.

Can you say if there was any new information or if it was just collected from what she's said earlier? It does say she's a co-author in the info on Amazon. I think I might buy it anyways out of curiosity now that it's on offer. I'm on the fence about this but thanks for filling me in!

 

[wild roses]

Ugh, that is such a letdown! I was hoping it was an actual exhibition book. I'm not opposed to pics of Daphne, but I want to see her clothes...the whole reason for the book to exist in the first place.

Guess I'll cross this off my must-have-now list and maybe buy it later. If at all.

 

[LUXXX]

The New Yorker article is great--I got the issue on my iPad. I would say it's definitely worth picking up a copy anyway, it's a good issue.

 

[fashion debutant]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xyILcxBkjM
just discovered that and i'm about to pass out...HAD to share it with you

 

[anina]

Oh wow how fantastic going over to youtube now. Have got to give karma for this find, fashion_debutant!

 

[envogueforever]

Not sure if Americans get the supplements to VF so I figured I'd take some snaps and share them with you. The supplement (which I bought today in London) came with the November issue of VF with Johnny Depp on the cover. If any of you are interested I can scan them in HQ and post them on here... Sorry about the mediocre snaps; I tried to rotate and save some of them but didn't work for some reason.

Vanity Fair On Couture supplement, November 2011

'Three Spirits', photographed and styled by Michael Roberts

my snaps

 

[KKnardi]

^interesting, wanna read the whole thing.

 

[voguetta]

really liked the video, thxs a lot Diorette!!!

 

[voguetta]

BTW i can't describe how much i love those neverending rings, that she wears all the time...