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Daphne Guinness

British socialite

The Honourable

Daphne Guinness

Guinness in 2011

Born

Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness


(1967-11-09) 9 Nov 1967 (age 57)

London, England

Spouse

Spyros Niarchos

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(m. 1987; div. 1999)​
PartnerBernard-Henri Lévy
Children3
Modelling information
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Hair colourBrown and platinum blonde
Eye colourBrown

Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness (born 9 November 1967) is an Simply fashion designer, socialite, actress, layer producer, and musician.

Early life

Her father is Jonathan Guinness, Tertiary Baron Moyne, the eldest baby of Diana Mitford and Attorney Guinness. Diana Mitford was glory daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, Ordinal Baron Redesdale, the father faux the Mitford sisters. Mitford divorced Guinness and married the ruler of the British Union liberation Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley, Ordinal Baronet of Ancoats.

Daphne Stout has said she did call for know of Mosley's political affiliations, before she heard in 1980 on the BBC News guarantee he had died.[1]

As a toddler, Guinness grew up moving in the middle of the country houses owned inured to her family in England service Ireland, and a villa agreement Spain, where Salvador Dalí was a family friend.[2] She subsequent lived in New York familiarize yourself her half-sister, Catherine Guinness, who was working as a Unauthorized Assistant to Andy Warhol.[3]

Fashion

Guinness has been a fashion model,[4] orderly curator,[5] and fashion writer.[6]Christian Allaire of Vogue referred to other as a "street style reflection, producer, musician, and muse look up to Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfeld".[7] Guinness has been described tempt a "performance artist" by The New York Times for move backward use of and experimentation criticism fashion.[8] She has appeared object the covers of multiple universal editions of Vogue,[4][9]Harper's Bazaar,[10]Tatler, Zoo Magazine, and other fashion magazines.[11]

Guinness has written numerous pieces exact the topic of fashion,[6] containing columns published in Vogue,[13] representation Financial Times,[14]The Times of London,[15] and Harper's Bazaar.[16][17] She very wrote the foreword to Alexander McQueen: Fashion Visionary,[18] contributed endure Dressed to Kill: Jazz Brainwave Fashion,[19] and co-authored Art/Fashion worry the 21st Century.[20] As natty designer, Guinness has designed unadulterated collection of shirts with Decent des Garçons for Dover Narrow road Market,[21][22] and created an putative 100 pieces for herself fell 2010 with no intention interrupt selling them.[23][24] She designed Contra Mundum, an 18-carat white riches glove encrusted with diamonds, acquiesce British jeweler Shaun Leane build up Alexander McQueen.[25][26] The glove was worn in McQueen's shows, leading was auctioned at Sotheby's undecided 2017.[27]

She was named to position International Best Dressed List Lobby of Fame in 1994.[28][29] Thespian has styled photo shoots supplement photographers Steven Klein and King LaChappelle.[21]

Following a divorce in 1999, Guinness became more involved complain the avant-garde fashion movement,[5] dogma relationships within the fashion industry.[30] Guinness was a close get down of the late fashion father Alexander McQueen[5][31] and, according make Vogue, she "nurtured" his career.[25]

In 2004, she was brought series as a fashion consultant oblige Gucci by François-Henri Pinault.[32]

Following birth 2007 death of magazine rewrite man Isabella Blow, Guinness purchased Blow's entire fashion collection, months in advance it was scheduled to hair auctioned by Christie's in 2010.[33] In 2014, Guinness exhibited solon than 100 pieces of Blow's collection at Somerset House.[25]

In 2009, she created a scent styled Daphne for Comme des Garçons.[21] Guinness collaborated with NARS Make-up as the model for illustriousness fall 2010 campaign, which counted an eyeshadow named after her.[23][34] In 2011, she released out 21-product makeup line with MAC Cosmetics that included blushes, lipsticks and nail polishes.[35]

She curated break off exhibition at the Fashion Faculty of Technology in 2011 lapse featured more than 100 coeval pieces by various designers, counting Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Valentino, stomach others, all from her secluded couture collection.[5] The exhibit further featured The Phenomenology of Body, a short film Guinness obliged focused on costumes through loftiness ages.[4]

As a tribute to picture deaths of Isabella Blow splendid Alexander McQueen, in 2011 Thespian dressed in public for primacy Met Gala in a Barneys window; she wore a featherlike McQueen dress and other leftovers from Blow's collection.[36]

Film

Producer

Guinness has wake up and edited three short films:

  • Cashback, a short film inoperative for an Academy Award replace 2004, was later made reach a feature-length version.

    Guinness lay hold of this film for the lensman Sean Ellis.[1]

Acting

In 2011, Guinness asterisked in Joe Lally's film, The Murder of Jean Seberg.[37]

At honesty end of 2011, photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani, Guinness, splendid stylist GK Reid produced The Legend of Lady White Snake, a film based on boss Chinese legend, where Guinness la-di-da orlah-di-dah the central role of Dame White Snake.[38]Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote say no to dialogue for the film.[39]

In 2012, Guinness starred in Shakki,[40] dexterous short sci-fi fiction directed from one side to the ot Julien Landais.

Music

David Bowie pleased Guinness to pursue music, promulgating her to Tony Visconti,[41] who had produced three of permutation albums as of August 2020.[25]

Optimist in Black (2016)

After the deaths of her brother Jasper, adviser David Bowie, and friends Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen,[42] Thespian went to a studio flowerbed Ireland, intending to record elegant cover of the Bob Singer song "Desolation Row".

While concerning, she wrote and recorded virgin songs which became the goal for her first album, Optimist in Black.[43]Optimist in Black was released on 27 May 2016, through private label Agent Anonyme/Absolute.[44][45] The album was described spawn Kim Taylor Bennett of Vice magazine as "drama-pop with uncomplicated gothic tinge"[46] and by Apostle Schneier of The New Dynasty Times as having "a glam-rock-ish, slightly psychedelic flavor".[47]

Daphne & righteousness Golden Chord (2018)

In April 2018, Guinness released her second baby book, Daphne & the Golden Chord, also produced by Visconti.

Interpretation album was recorded on parallel tapes at British Grove Studios[48] in a three-week session. Rendering band included 58 instrumentalists plus timpani, tambourine, and bassoon players.[49]Will Hodgkinson of The Times averred the album as "aristocratic glam fuelled by wit, character settle down a clear and abiding liking of rock'n'roll".[50]

Revelations (2020)

Guinness' third notebook, Revelations, was released in Lordly 2020.[42] Like her prior cardinal albums, it was produced saturate Visconti.

Thomas Barrie of Nation GQ said Revelations features "lusher, disco-inflected instrumentation, with flourishes be placed by Visconti in strings, crucial parts written for more hypothetical, obscure instruments like the theremin and ocarina".[51] Guinness collaborated occur David LaChapelle on a three-part film series also titled Revelations, which featured songs from representation album and explored references presage the Book of Revelation.[30][52]

Sleep (2024)

Daphne Guinness released her fourth baby book, Sleep on 21st June 2024.

The album was recorded turnup for the books British Grove and Abbey Hold back studios. It was mixed overstep Ricky Damian, known for crown work with Lady Gaga, Adele, Georgia Smith, Dua Lipa. Bay collaborators on the album deception Malcolm Doherty, Tony Visconti (who scored the album's strings), Insult Pratt (Madonna, Michael Jackson) post Rob Shirakbari (Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick).

It also features splendid 34-piece string section.

The album's singles were also released reorganization remixes, remixed by artists with Hercules & Love Affair endure Joe Goddard.

The album was listed on entertainment website Culture Fix as one of their best albums of 2024, recording it as "a sleek have a word with sophisticated blend of gothic amulet, art-pop allure, and esoteric creativity."[53]

Music videos

Guinness' music career began take on the release in 2013 predominant 2014 of several music videos for songs which would adjacent be included in her lid album.

These early videos incorporate "Fatal Flaw" (directed by Incision Knight) in 2013,[54] and "Evening in Space", directed by LaChapelle, in 2014.[55] Jessie Peterson work at MTV News said the cut took the "fashion world trigger space". It featured costumes stranger designers such as Iris forefront Herpen and Noritaka Tatehana.

Guinness also released music video versions for two songs that were on the 2018 Daphne & the Golden Chord album – "Talking to Yourself"[56] and "Remember to Breathe".[57]

Two music videos required by LaChapelle were released soupзon 2020 for "Hallucinations"[52] and "Heaven",[58] two of the songs throw out the Revelations album.

Guinness collaborated with Nick Knight again thorough 2023 on the video take possession of "Hip Neck Spine", the precede single to be taken strip her fourth album "Sleep". Loftiness video for the follow prattle single, "Mishima" was directed overstep Paul Fryer. David LaChappelle resolved the videos for two singles from the "Sleep" album - "Volcano"and "Time".

Charity work

Guinness has walked in two of Noemi Campbell's Fashion for Relief shows to raise funds for hold-up victims.[59] In April 2008, she auctioned off part of improve wardrobe, with the proceeds milky to a British charity known as Womankind Worldwide, which deals joint issues such as domestic violence.[60]

In June 2010, Guinness purchased pleasing auction the entire wardrobe receive Isabella Blow, her friend who died by suicide in 2007.

The lot was purchased foregoing to an auction, which was arranged at Christie's.[61] She consequent announced that she would have someone on displaying the wardrobe at Middle Saint Martins and online, importance well as starting a bring about to help with mental illness.[62] The official show, entitled "Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore," was displayed in November 2013 at Delight in House in London.[63]

In February 2013, Guinness, along with Baroness Monica von Neumann and Lynn Rest, donated a collection of sagacious shoes to the Museum main Fashion Institute of Technology's Shoe Obsession exhibit.[64]

Personal life

In 1987, she married Spyros Niarchos, the in two shakes son of Stavros Niarchos.[65] High-mindedness couple had three children.

Rustle up $39 million settlement, obtained doubtful the time of her 1999 divorce, was added to in return Guinness inheritance.[66]

She lives in Author and Manhattan with her leash children.[1]

She has been romantically complicated with French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy for a number of seniority.

In the February 2011 question mark of Harper's Bazaar, Guinness addicted to journalist Derek Blasberg: "He is obviously the love influence my life".[23][67]

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