Daphne Guinness

[anina]

Sorry for the double post... but I just found this and I wanted to share.

 

[Party_Vixen]

^ I will definitely be at Mac on the 26th to check out her collection (and I don't even wear Mac makeup ).

 

[glitterpeacock]

I'm not that keen on the collection from what I can see. Too shimmery and it seems a bit cheap to just re-release past pigments.
I read on some website recently that she's started using nail polish for lipstick. That's one tip I won't be trying.

 

[Label Basher]

^ I know. Nail polish as lippy - YUCK no thanks.

Thanks for posting that interview anina.

 

[anina]

The lipstick comment is really confusing. Isn't she concerned about risking her health?! I'm sure she could be able to find a similar shade/texture in an actual lipstick. And I trust that if that failed she'd be fully able to mix up her own! What with all the scents she makes for herself... It seems like she said it just for shock value, true or not.

I'm not sure I like this route she's taking, saying things just for the sake of shaking people up.

ETA: My pleasure, Label_Basher!

 

[anina]

Sorry for the double post, guys!

Daphne Guinness is the iconic model for 'Future Couture' - a live shoot featuring the finest of Spring/Summer 2012 fashion mixed with Guinness' own legendary haute couture wardrobe and captured by Nick Knight. The resulting images will form the centrepiece of the fashion windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store, the final evolution of which will be unveiled in February Paris Fashion Week

http://showstudio.com/project/future_couture

(Just follow the link for a video. Sorry, I don't know how to embed videos from showstudio..)

 

[MagFan]

Photographer: Bryan Adams
Styling: Lotta Aspenberg
Hair: Leonardo Manetti
Make-up: Kabuki
Nails: Alicia Torello
Setdesign: Andrea Huelse


vogue.de

 

[liberty33r1b]

she looks incredible in the third pic, totally unrecognizable...

 

[Boomer]

Will Daphne Guinness Put Isabella Blow's Collection on Display in 2012?

A tweet this afternoon from Daphne Guinness is giving the fashion world hope.
The future of Isabella Blow's world-famous collection—which was assembled by Blow over the course of her life and includes one-of-a-kind pieces from Alexander McQueen, Balmain, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, Hauliuetrige, Gareth Pugh and Rick Owens—has hung in the balance since 2010 when Daphne Guinness, who was close friends with both Blow and McQueen, saved the collection from the auction block and scooped it up in its entirety. She has since then been looking for a way to honor Blow and her unparalleled collection of couture.

A handful of garments from Guinness's vault were brought to daylight in the windows of Barney's department store last year, where Guinness put them on temporary display in conjunction with her party-prep as performance art piece preceding the 2011 Met Gala, which honored McQueen. “I thought, Lee [McQueen] will be at the Met, Izzy had got to be somewhere,” Guinness told WWD.

This afternoon, she announced to her 30,000 Twitter followers that something's brewing:

I Will have news about Isabella Blow's collection. I am excited to be able at last to do her justice!​

Coming on the heels of the frenzied McQueen exhibition at the Met, a display of any kind featuring the names "McQueen" and "Blow" is bound to be a ****show (a ****show of the best kind, obviously).
One thing's for sure: Whatever she's got planned, it's not going to be understated.


racked.com

 

[wild roses]

Interesting. I hope if there is a show of Isabella's clothes, the exbition book will be produced properly and show the damn clothing. It's really been pissing me off that costume institutes from various countries and places have been half-assing photographing the clothing on exhibit and instead lazily just gathering up a collection of person wearing clothing and only showing scant pieces from the exhibition. (Looking squarely at you Daphne. And she's not the only one guilty of this.)

 

[fashionista-ta]

Interesting. I hope if there is a show of Isabella's clothes, the exbition book will be produced properly and show the damn clothing. It's really been pissing me off that costume institutes from various countries and places have been half-assing photographing the clothing on exhibit and instead lazily just gathering up a collection of person wearing clothing and only showing scant pieces from the exhibition. (Looking squarely at you Daphne. And she's not the only one guilty of this.)

I've been to exhibits where the clothing was from archives, and to exhibits where it was from real women's closets. If the clothes have been worn, I think pictures of the person wearing them are probably preferable. The clothes without the person are really missing something IMO ... they seem lonely. It's probably difficult to get hold of the pictures of people wearing specific pieces, especially if many decades have passed ... possibly easier to swoop through the exhibit with a camera.

 

[misspistol]

I just got the McQueen book that went along with the exhibit and the photography is gorgeous. I hope it's something along those lines since Issie's clothes were just as theatrical.
Fingers crossed Daphne does put them on display!

 

[Label Basher]

I Will have news about Isabella Blow's collection. I am excited to be able at last to do her justice!

So exciting. I read all 3 Izzy bio's this year. Got a bit obsessed. I have my fingers crossed for London.

 

[Mirik]

Tatler January 2012 (Russia) ebook30

 

[wild roses]

I've been to exhibits where the clothing was from archives, and to exhibits where it was from real women's closets. If the clothes have been worn, I think pictures of the person wearing them are probably preferable. The clothes without the person are really missing something IMO ... they seem lonely. It's probably difficult to get hold of the pictures of people wearing specific pieces, especially if many decades have passed ... possibly easier to swoop through the exhibit with a camera.

Those are good points. However, it seems like even the dead people exhibits are getting skimped over. (Princess Grace's wardrobe was featured in not one but two major clothing exhibits, and both catalogues only show scant pictures of her outfits.)

 

[glossypages]

I got the book "Daphne Guiness" by her and Valerie Steele for christmas, it's great for any admirers out there I'd reccomend it!

 

[misspistol]

See, I was choosing between the Daphne book or the McQueen book and the reviews for the Daphne book said it was full of photos we've already seen and interviews about things she likes to eat and read. Is that true?

 

[glossypages]

My birthday was a month earlier so I got Mcqueen then,
and if I were choosing between the two I would definitely go for McQueen because that book is something you will keep, read and treasure forever.
But yes there are many photos you've probably seen before but its still a lovely hard cover coffee table book.
And the written content is just Daphne on a range of different things from marriage to choice of shoes, her influential fashion friends to her preferred scent. it's still interesting in my opinion and worth getting it you'd like a nice compilation of her life and style to date

 

[misspistol]

You're right, the McQueen book is just glorious.
I'd love a book about Daphne with photographs of her collection of couture and jewellery...or perhaps something in the style of the Olsen twins' book.

 

[minstinguett]

Daphne photographed as David Bowie by Bryan Adams for German Vogue - http://jezebel.com/5872725/daphne-guinness-channels-david-bowie-for-bryan-adams/gallery/2