Quotes by Daphne Guinness

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.

Emotion

Lasts

Priorities

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

Clothes

Needs

World

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.

Crazy

Mean

Sometimes

Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, ‘Well if I do I’ll just get up!’

Fall

Get Up

Shoes

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

Being Yourself

Believe

Marketing

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.

Fashion

Political

Revolution

Holding a note is a very difficult thing – you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

Body

Perfect

Use

Human beings all mimic each other.

Human Beings

Humans

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone’s neck. It needs to be something else – and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Ideas

Needs

Price Tag

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

Clothings

Disposable

Regard

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Art

Bananas

Beautiful

Being Yourself

Believe

Black And White

Blood

Body

Book

Brain

Broken

Children

Cities

Civilization

Clothes

Clothings

Color

Crazy

Creativity

Dark Glasses

Disposable

Divorce

Emotion

Fall

Fashion

Fun

Gang

Get Up

Gossip

Hands

Hate

Human Beings

Humans

I Can

Ideas

Ifs

Jewelry

Jobs

Lasts

Life Is

Lonely

Marketing

Mathematics

Mean

Memories

Needs

Order

Past

People

Perfect

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Quotes by Daphne Guinness

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.

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

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.

Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, ‘Well if I do I’ll just get up!’

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

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.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing – you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

Human beings all mimic each other.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone’s neck. It needs to be something else – and there is something extremely magical about armour.

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

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