Daphne Guinness

[Boomer]

Daphne was good friends with McQueen, wasn't she?

 

[Aterua]

yes they were very close...so so sad.

 

[Nicolasa]

The fashion industry weighs in on the loss of McQueen

Posted Thursday February 11, 2010

DAPHNE GUINNESS: "He was an aristocrat in the true sense of the word. He had a natural grace, natural patrician instincts. And he had so much compassion and a big heart — he was such a friend. We would go to his studio and do simple things — sit and have a cup of tea — and just have fun. We'd play around like kids and imagine that we were in a world that wasn't so cynical and money-driven." Guinness said she first met him years ago: "He spotted me across Leicester Square. I was wearing his Givenchy kimono with the dragon on the back. We became good friends. He was the kindest, shyest, funniest person. And when the chips were down he was there. He wasn't a flake. You could count on him. I will miss him."

wwd.com

 

[ponytrot]

So sad that Issy and Lee are both gone - I think Daphne was good friends with Ms Blow as well..

 

[Nicolasa]

Daphne pays tribute to Mcqueen modeling on 'Fashion for Relief Haiti':

reuters via daylife.com

In motion (since 14:12 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4679578

Brave!
She looks terrified walking the runway... Poor baby .

 

[Bird of Paradise]

Oh my, the finale of Naomi's Haiti Benefit is an Alexander McQueen tribute. First out was Daphne Guinness in sequined body suit. Naomi last.

Naomi, Natasha, Daphne, Heidi, Angela and Karen Elson together, all in McQueen, all crying. Perhaps the most touching testimony to him yet.

twitter.com/derekblasberg

 

[minstinguett]

God she looks phenomenal on the runway.

It's sad that she has lost two good friends in a short space of time. Both such geniuses and both gone so young.

RIP McQueen.

 

[Master Wood]

It was claimed in the Daily Telegraph that the catsuit she is wearing was likely the very last thing Lee ever made, a belated birthday present for ms guinness. How wonderful for her.

 

[Party_Vixen]

^

That must have been so difficult for her, but what a great tribute to her friend.

A few more images from last night .







gettyimages.com

 

[Party_Vixen]

Continued.







gettyimages.com

 

[Boomer]

I know Daphne is very petite, but she is in great shape, too!

 

[Master Wood]

She looks like a hooker with her hair dressed like that!

 

[Party_Vixen]

Chanel Fêtes Vanessa Paradis



style.com

 

[Party_Vixen]

An HQ from the Fashion Relief show .



coutorture via NeverDrinkAgain

 

[MissMagAddict]

source | thedailybeast

My Best Friend McQueen
by Daphne Guinness

Notwithstanding the fact that he was one of my best friends and he saved me from many things, Lee Alexander McQueen was a gigantic personality. He was a colossus, a titan. And he had the biggest heart.

We met many years ago. As he told it, he saw me across Leicester Square, and I was wearing one of his coats. So he came up to me and said, “I’m Alexander.” We became so close. Me and Lee and Issie [Blow], we were a little gang.

Lee was an original. He wasn't someone who referenced things. Many designers have other designers designing their things. His ideas were only his. They came from a deep well of creativity.

He broke the mold. It was never just slap-dash. What he did was not in any shape or form anything that would have been done before. It wasn't, "This year we're going to do 'Ballet Russes'" and then send assistants out to gather material. We would sit there and laugh and joke, and then at some point, he would take a pair of scissors and just start cutting. We would cut things up together. He was connected to the source of creativity. He didn't need anything else.

He was a true artist. He chose fashion as his medium to express himself. On the question of whether fashion is art, the verdict would be yes, if you take McQueen as the designer. He was not just a designer, he was an artist. He was just so incredibly chic. He could make the most simple dress, the most imaginative anything. He could do everything. The number of designers I see who wake up in the morning and have no real ideas—Lee didn't run out of ideas, and that's the difference. I don't really know anybody else like that.

What was so cool about the evolution theme of his last collection, what was so genius with the idea of evolution—of humanity coming out of the sea, with all those weird alien shapes—was that in that, there was really the idea of what it is to be a conscious human being. Humans can make a conscious choice between being natural or civilized. Fashion creates civilization.

Obviously, he was a titan, and I'm a tiny little person, but we shared this idea of, "If you want to see the state of a civilization, you see the way people dress." You can see it through history. When people say that fashion is frivolous and it's this and it's that: Yes, it is, and so are many other things, but it's also what separates us, what makes us human. There are very few people who connect us to the source in the way he did.

What those of us closest to him saw most clearly was his humor, his sensitivity. He was very shy. He was kind. Most other people didn't do anything practical. He was one of the only ones—and without trumpeting it. He did so much good without anyone ever knowing. He was so generous. He intuitively knew to call me when I was having a problem. I just can't bear this. It's unbelievable. It's just like, who next? There are very few people left. I didn't have any sense this was coming. Actually, I had an intuition yesterday, but I don't want to get into it. I just can't bear it.

He was a colossus and, frankly, irreplaceable—artistically and in my heart.

 

[eternitygoddess]

I feel so terribly sad for her, and I wish her the best in dealing with her heartbreak.

 

[hannapple]

That tribute was beautiful. So genuine. You could tell that the depths of their friendship exceeded words.

Like eternitygoddess, I wish her the strength of heart to get through this tragic ordeal

 

[Boomer]

Poor Daphne...between Issy, Alexander, her obviously turbulent relationship with a married man, whatever her missing kids are up to, and her bizarre behavior the last six months or so, she is really having a tough time of it....She has just seemed so lost and alone...

 

[avantgarde]

Daphne at DVF's dinner party last night:

twitpic.com/user/bagsnob

 

[Nicolasa]

Looking through the photo galleries of Mcqueen I spotted Daphne at the funeral of Isabella Blow... The story repeats itself .

A mourner attends the funeral service for fashion stylist Isabella Blow at Gloucester Cathedral on May 15 2007 in Gloucester England.

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