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We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

Daphne Guinness

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Daphne Guinness
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: November 9
Actor
Artist
Fashion Designer
Film Producer
Socialite
London
England
Daphne Diana Joan Susanna Guinness
Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness
Hon. Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness
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I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again. My wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but it's - I don't really think too much about it.
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As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour
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If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.
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If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.
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Eccentric is a difficult word because it's come to mean crazy. Avant-garde would be better. Eccentric is not centric in terms of having a center. Because sometimes it's used in a derogatory context.
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My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.
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I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
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I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.
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I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!
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I don't approach fashion fashion approaches me!
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I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.
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I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
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Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.
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I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.
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I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
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I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.
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