Explore Quotes by Daphne Guinness

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

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.

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.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

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.

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.

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.

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

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

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

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

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

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

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

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

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

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.