Daphne Guinness

[Chanelcouture09]

today at Lee McQueen's funeral

daily mail

 

[mishahoi]

oh, wow....and I thought it was announced that the funeral was only for family. I guess she was close enough to be considered family...

 

[mishahoi]

here is some good news to go with the sad...

One of Alexander McQueen’s closest friends, Daphne Guinness, will exhibit part of her wardrobe at the Fashion Institute of Technology in September 2011. About 80 to 100 pieces including outfits by the likes of McQueen, Balenciaga, Comme des Garçons, Dolce & Gabbana and Azzedine Alaïa will be in a show on her personal style, which will run at the school’s museum through January 2012. The socialite and Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, will co-curate the show. Yale University Press will publish a book to accompany the exhibit. “She is so creative and inspirational in the way that someone like Tina Chow was,” said Steele. For the show, Steele plans to identify the components of that style, which range from Guinness’ interest in sleeves and ruffles around the neck to accessories like hats, veils and ribbons.

WWD

 

[Chanelcouture09]

mirror.co.uk

 

[ilaughead]

Wow... that reminds me of the huge billowing vinyl cape Isabella Blow had...

I will be at that exhibit in a heartbeat, though.

 

[Boomer]

^ Yes- me too! I've actually exchanged e mails with the woman who is putting it together; one time she sent me an invite to an opening night cocktail party, now this one I'd be sure to go to!!

 

[Harumi]

Listen, I don't doubt for a second the realness and rawness of Daphne's pain and sense of loss. Out of all the people present, she was probably one of the closest to Lee, maybe even the closest.

That said, what the F*** is she wearing at his funeral? That has to be the most disrespectful mourning outfit I have ever seen. It's not a freaking runway, somebody died, Jesus!
I know McQueen was an unconventional iconoclast and a punk but c'mon! Naomi and Kate managed to be super stylish and to incorporate Lee's designs has an homage to him, without hogging all the attention to themselves with some outrageous costume.

Sorry if I seem like I'm overreacting but that strike me as a crass move.

 

[Boomer]

^ That's all very true- but you know McQueen would have loved it!!

 

[Chanelcouture09]

^^the cape is alittle too much, on top of her new found love of veil's its abit like the grieving widow, although she probably is grieving
although to the public she seems his closest friend, it was infact annabelle neilson who was his best friend
although daphne was possibly second on the pecking order

 

[thefrancofille]

I think McQueen would have loved her outfit too. I think she was just being Dpahne and trying to honor her friend as well.

 

[Harumi]

I think McQueen would have loved her outfit too.

I know he would have, especially since he designed it. That's not my issue.
My issue is with outshining a dead man at his own funeral (that and the fact that the cape looks atrocious)

The church was filled with his family and his friend, they were there to say good bye to him, the event was about him. I don't understand why it was so hard for her to tune it down for once in her life.
Her whole life is a fashion show so it's not like she would not have 10,000 other opportunities to wear that ugly cape.

I don't mean she should have worn something staid. The veil, hat and jewelry are gorgeous and would have made a stunning and appropriate outfit coupled with Naomi's suit or something aproching:

dailymail.co.uk

 

[minstinguett]

The cape reminds me of the outfit Christina Aguilera wore in the "Fighter" video directed by Floria Sigismondi.

 

[ilaughead]

To be fair, the cape wouldn't be anywhere near as big indoors where there isn't wind to fill it with air. And during the service, everyone would be sitting down, so the cape is the least distracting element... That said, she was one of McQueen's muses so why shouldn't she pay tribute to his work?

 

[LuLover]

I know he would have, especially since he designed it. That's not my issue.
My issue is with outshining a dead man at his own funeral (that and the fact that the cape looks atrocious)

The church was filled with his family and his friend, they were there to say good bye to him, the event was about him. I don't understand why it was so hard for her to tune it down for once in her life.
Her whole life is a fashion show so it's not like she would not have 10,000 other opportunities to wear that ugly cape.

I don't mean she should have worn something staid. The veil, hat and jewelry are gorgeous and would have made a stunning and appropriate outfit coupled with Naomi's suit or something aproching:

Funny-I came to the thread to say the same thing. It is approapriate to draw so much attention to yourself at someone's funeral? I certainly don't think it is......

I am guessing most of the girls wore McQueen-Kate & Naomi did I believe and managed to look demure and respectful.
Daphne has seriously failed in paying tribute by making it all about her.

 

[Nicolasa]

The cape is from Alexander McQueen Fall 2002 :

style.com

 

[dajrekshn]

Listen, I don't doubt for a second the realness and rawness of Daphne's pain and sense of loss. Out of all the people present, she was probably one of the closest to Lee, maybe even the closest.

That said, what the F*** is she wearing at his funeral? That has to be the most disrespectful mourning outfit I have ever seen. It's not a freaking runway, somebody died, Jesus!
I know McQueen was an unconventional iconoclast and a punk but c'mon! Naomi and Kate managed to be super stylish and to incorporate Lee's designs has an homage to him, without hogging all the attention to themselves with some outrageous costume.

Sorry if I seem like I'm overreacting but that strike me as a crass move.

sorry to say, but i agree totally.
it's so overboard and kinda tacky, sorry.

 

[Party_Vixen]

Vogue.it: Milan Fashion Week Womenswear A/W 2010



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[MissMagAddict]

source | vogue.it

Fashion and art-loving Daphne Guinness is surely one of the most eccentric and intriguing figures of our time. Petite and curious, she considers haute couture an essential part of Western culture. She loves being surrounded by artists to absorb their genius and inspire their creativity

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".

What's next
She would like to be a film director again , and plans on writing a novel: "It's evolving. I guess all novels must be part of what you know, and it's a difficult thing to write because there are many many things that I don't understand about my life."

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 a book 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 music
Johann Sebastian Bach.

Favourite food
Sushi and mashed potatoes.

Favourite drink
Tea.

Favourite film
The Razor's Edge by John Byrum.

Favourite book
Tender is the Night, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

Motto
"Judge not."

Never goes out without
Her iPod.

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.

First thing in the morning
A cup of tea.

Last thing before bed
Tells a prayer.

Birthday
9 November.

Born in
Ireland.

Lives
Between London and New York.


ADDRESS BOOK
Restaurants

La Grenouille, New York.​

Le Voltaire, Paris.​

Mark's Club, London.

Published:
02/23/2010​

 

[Label Basher]

^ Great interview. Thanks for posting/translating MMA

Love that she likes simple things like tea, mashed potatoes and faux jewellery.

 

[Harumi]

Birthday
9 November.

Humm, she's a Scorpio.
Explains lots of things...