Daphne Guinness

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Thanks Love$2shop!

 

[Harumi]

Apparently the pool happening was a promotional act for Maybach. From Fashionlogie:

Daphne Guinness, who has experienced an increase in industry attention this year between her Comme des Garcons-backed perfume and her tendency to wear the unwearable shoe — from Alexander McQueen and Nina Ricci under Olivier Theyskens, in particular, has traded in her iconic skunk-striped hair for a new look. When she flew in to Miami from London for Art Basel, she debuted an all-black coif, causing many, apparently, to not recognize her.

She joined beau Andre Balazs at the festivities, and later close friend and photographer David LaChapelle, with whom she presented "an incredibly elaborate advertising campaign for Maybach, the Mercedes-Benz line of uber-luxury cars, in front of both the company’s German executives and an Art Basel audience," according to Stefano Tonchi. Afterward, they dove into the hotel swimming pool, LaChapelle in only his underwear, and Daphne in couture, coif, diamonds, and all.

The outfit is growing on me, especially without the shoes. It looks incredible in this pic:

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My favorite art performance moments? Friday night at the Raleigh Hotel, Klaus Biesenbach and Diana Picasso had quite an impressive lineup with Kalup Linzy singing his torch songs, Ryan McNamara acting his Bela Lugosi “zombie” dance and Terence Koh doing absolutely nothing. Koh particularly impressed me by simply leading the art-jaded crowd from the loud hotel ballroom down to the beach to enjoy a good bottle of Champagne under the moonlight, with the waves as our soundtrack. But the next night at the hotel brought the performance-art high point, as Daphne Guinness, the heiress turned fashion icon — now in a new all-black-and-diamond look that channeled Marchesa Casati and Fantômas — performed with her friend, the photographer David LaChapelle. In the act, they presented an incredibly elaborate advertising campaign for Maybach, the Mercedes-Benz line of über-luxury cars, in front of both the company’s German executives and an Art Basel audience. As James Franco says, in performance art it’s all about the “out of context.”

OMG stunning!

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Next up was a dinner hosted by Remo Ruffino at Casa Tua to celebrate Moncler’s collaboration with Pharrell Williams. The multitalented music man was modeling one of his vests, which resembled something that might be in a law-enforcement officer’s closet.

“Is this it?” asked his friend Naomi Campbell, who arrived with a bodyguard and boyfriend Vladislav Doronin in tow. “It’s brilliant.”

“It’s not bullet-proof, but it’s fashion-proof,” Williams said. Meanwhile, a nearly unrecognizable Daphne Guinness swept in mid-dinner to join guests John McEnroe, Patti Smith, Marjorie Gubelmann, Rebecca de Ravenel, Ambra Medda and Vito Schnabel. Her usually skunk-striped hair was completely black and she had donned a floor-length cape over a black leather catsuit, paired with towering, heel-less Nina Ricci boots.

“I just arrived from London,” she said. “It’s f---ing hot here.”

 

[Boomer]

^ Ugh...she looks like one of the attendants to Count Dracula in a cheap movie...

 

[Harumi]

^Wow, one of the few times we will disagree on Daphne, Boomer.
I think she looks fabulous.

 

[Boomer]

^ Yeah, true, but I liked our cute and sexy Daphne...this is getting too weird now...

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[Nicolasa]

fashionologie.com

 

[Nicolasa]

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[sethii]

The bottom of that pool must be littered with diamonds

 

[from: sophia]

I know a lot of you might disagree but I really love this look.

 

[KKnardi]

wow, I just love the way she looks at the art basel show! it reminds me of marchesa luisa casati.

 

[vogue28]

OHMYGOD! I really don't like her hair all black.

 

[Harumi]

fashionologie.com

I don't want to be bitchy or anything but I posted that very article litterally three posts up.

Thank you for the Hqs though, they're great.

 

[LolaSvelt]

Words fail me.

 

[sethii]

Interview - dec/jan issue
Project Front Row
Photographer : Mikael Jansson
Coordination : Karla M. Martinez
Models : Tabitha Simmons, Anna Dello Russo, Katie Grand, Camille Bidault-Waddington, Jessica Diehl, Hidetoshi Nakata, L'wren Scott, Jefferson Hack & Anouck Lepère, Dasha Zhukova, Giovanna Battaglia, Daphne Guinness, Lauren Santo Domingo, Marie-Amélie Sauvé, Charlotte Stockdale & Marc Newson, Stefano Tonchi, Olivier Zahm & André Saraiva & Lara Stone & Trish Goff, Natalia Vodianova

review by dieselmax

 

[Bird of Paradise]

OHMYGOD! I really don't like her hair all black.

Me neither

 

[voguetta]

i just think that all the reason why i admired daphne guinness are gone... including the hair...

 

[Boomer]

wow, I just love the way she looks at the art basel show! it reminds me of marchesa luisa casati.

Reminds me of one of those eccentric old society babes that has 27 cats...

 

[KKnardi]

^yeah. or 27 lovers...

 

[voguetta]

^yeah. or 27 lovers...

the day has only 24 hours, 27 lovers don't make my numbers... she better gets the cats

 

[LuLover]

Oh I like the black hair...less tacky L.A blonde, more crazy avant garde aristocrat!!!

In the above photo she kind of reminds me of that crazy personal trainer of Madonna/Gwenyth....gross.