Daphne Guinness

[bluejeans]

love that gold dress!! daphne looks absolutely sensational in it!

 

[MissMagAddict]

Source | WWD

GUINNESS DONS THE DIRECTOR'S HAT: Daphne Guinness, wearer of many fashionable hats, is to fete her first directorial effort during Paris couture week. Dubbed "Phenomenology of Body," the four-and-a-half minute short, described by Guinness as an art installation-cum-film, is based on the history of the female spirit. Stills from the work that will premiere on the T: The New York Times Style Magazine Web site on Friday, will be exhibited at the Hotel de Crillon on July 1, with Alexander McQueen among those expected. The images will then be put up for sale on the Starworks Web site, with proceeds going to the charity Womankind. The work features 13 historic female figures — including Joan of Arc, a cupcake-clutching Marie Antoinette, played by Guinness, and Emily Pankhurst — consecutively spinning in the dark, bathed in varying pools of light. Choreographed to music by LCD Soundsystem, the film ends with a young lady peeling off her long red burka. "It's about the body and the soul, concealing and revealing, empowerment; clothing has always been so political," said Guinness, herself clad in a micro Azzedine Alaïa mini and towering Christian Louboutin platform stilettos for breakfast at the Ritz last week. "The message is that we all have the power to choose," she said.

 

[ponytrot]

she looks a little Claire Danes in some of these photos

amazing style

 

[cosmocat]

Source | WWD

Thanks for the news, sounds really interesting. An image from this project, also from www.wwd.com. Daphne as Marie Antoinette.

 

[LUXXX]

^^That's a cool image...

 

[Love$2shop]

She is seriously the coolest person EVER ...

 

[bluejeans]

haha, love her as marie antoinette! it'll be interesting to see how she fares as a director. the hotel de crillon is in paris. guess i'll have to wait until the video makes it onto youtube.

 

[LAlights]

anyone have any pictures of her daughter?? soo jealous of the wardrobe she's going to inherit! hahaha!

 

[AnaisF]

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At Chanel!

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[Lady-Penelope]

Here's the short film she made:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008...oId=1606785747&pagewanted=0&pageName=tvideos1&

 

[cosmocat]

^Thanks for posting.
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At the Scottish Fashion Awards

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Chanel HC A/W 08

 

[ponytrot]

love the chanel dress on her, her icy fabulousness never fails to impress me..

 

[Party_Vixen]

The short film she produced is amazing. Hope to see her continue with such projects!

Love how she paired that Alaia belt with the Chanel mini. I'm sure she blew everyone else of the water at the show!

 

[Tigerlily]

She is To Cool, and the chanel dress is stunning!!!!
SHE can wear IT all

 

[Harumi]

lainey

 

[cosmocat]

Love how she paired that Alaia belt with the Chanel mini.

Me too, love each individually and they're fantastic together. Also enjoy that she rewears things.

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new party game: name that look

As seems to be the case with most fashion dinners in Paris nowadays, toward the end of the evening (and certainly after the main course), chances are that the majority of the VIPs will have temporarily relocated to the street for a cigarette and a gossip session. At Tuesday night's dinner for Daphne Guinness's short film at Kaviar Kaspia, the situation was exactly that, with more than half the guests—including some who don't smoke but didn't want to miss out on the outdoor party, like Guinness herself—finding themselves on the pavement at one point. After the guest of honor came down to mingle with her nicotine-craving friends, a game of "Describe Daphne's Look" sprang up. Was she a "chic techno skunk" or was she a "fabulous robotic couture clothes hanger"? Luckily for the players of the game, who included Eva Mendes, stylist George Cortina, Lauren Santo Domingo, Amanda Harlech, Hamish Bowles, and Tatiana Santo Domingo, there was more than one label for the black-and-white-haired Lagerfeld muse and fashion icon (Cortina even offered a story about how he watched Guinness stomp her way out of the Ritz at 10 that morning and saw French women dropping their handbags in amazement). You can play this game at home, too. Just ask yourself how you would sum up Daphne and her very short silver Alexander McQueen dress; hordes of diamonds adorning her hair, ears, neck, wrists, and hands; and sparkly pink shoes that she had specially made by a woman called Natacha Marro, who used to specialize in making footwear for pole dancers.
—Derek Blasberg

 

[rangerrick14]

She is amazing I want to be apart of her world so bad.

 

[cosmocat]

At the screening of her film
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Guinness, who worked the room in a stiff, futuristic silver minidress. "Lee and I designed it together," she said, referring to her designing friend Alexander McQueen.

 

[cosmocat]

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Chanel HC A/W 08

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[bluejeans]

so many new pictures! she looks amazing at chanel and at the screening of her film. the wwd picture from her screening is phenomenal! i liked her film, let's hope it's the first of many. B) thanks to everybody who posts in this thread, keeping it alive and updated.