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Daphne Guinness Quotes

I don’t approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

– Daphne Guinness

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn’t. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

– Daphne Guinness

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

– Daphne Guinness

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

– Daphne Guinness

I don’t dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

– Daphne Guinness

Writing is a funny thing. It’s not like you’re working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

– Daphne Guinness

I don’t tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

– Daphne Guinness

Through art, you create your own world.

– Daphne Guinness

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they’re told it’s all vanity.

– Daphne Guinness

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I’m kind of astonished because I think, ‘This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it’s how I’ve always been.’

– Daphne Guinness

Seasons are really annoying. You get a really great pair of shoes or a beautiful pair of boots, and then you try to get them again four months later, and they say, ‘Oh no, that was last season.’

– Daphne Guinness

It’s quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it’s nice to go home.

– Daphne Guinness

I don’t regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

– Daphne Guinness

Switch off reality TV! I’ve only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

– Daphne Guinness

I think it’s beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

– Daphne Guinness

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don’t believe what you see, don’t believe all this marketing.

– Daphne Guinness

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

– Daphne Guinness

There hasn’t been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

– Daphne Guinness

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

– Daphne Guinness

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

– Daphne Guinness

Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress – but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.

– Daphne Guinness

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one’s priorities.

– Daphne Guinness

My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it’s ever evolving. Generally I’m drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.

– Daphne Guinness

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

– Daphne Guinness

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.

– Daphne Guinness

I’ve always been more slight, and I’ve always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.

– Daphne Guinness

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 – and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I’ll play with certain elements, but I don’t really think about it too much.

– Daphne Guinness

People always assume I don’t need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it’s always reported to be.

– Daphne Guinness

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

– Daphne Guinness

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

– Daphne Guinness

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