Daphne Guinness famous quotes

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art,
-- Daphne Guinness

#Art #Pieces #Jewelry

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

#Fashion #Too Much #Gang

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.
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#Skins #Bananas #Life Is

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.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Ideas #Needs #Tag

Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'
-- Daphne Guinness

#Fall #Shoes #Falling Down

When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Thinking #Hair #Glue

Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.
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#Infinite

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

#Creativity #Blood #Brain

If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.
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Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,
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#Handbags #Certain

I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event.
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#Events #Dressings

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.
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#Long #Interesting #Lasts

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Mistake #Mean #Boys

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

#Children #Thinking #Imagination

Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end
-- Daphne Guinness

#Intention #Conscious #Ends

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!
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#Fashion #Approach

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

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

#Divorce #People #Needs

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.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Order #Cities #Ideas

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

#Art #Real #Movement

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

#Priorities #Lasts #Emotion

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.
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#Support #Needs #World

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

#Black And White #Thinking #Hands

If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Fashion #Thinking #Too Much

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

#Clothes #Needs #World

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

#Clothings

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Thinking #Who I Am #People

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Book #Gossip #Tvs

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.
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#Fun #Mean #Play

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Taken #Upset #Use

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

#Mean #Sunglasses #Pretentious

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Past #Thinking #Government

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.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Philosophy #Practice #Two

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.
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#Dresses #Different #Each Day

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

#Children #Hate #Ideas

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.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Taken #Journey #Years

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.
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#Perfect #Use #Body

Human beings all mimic each other.
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#Humans

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

#Beautiful #Thinking #Color

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

#Being Yourself #Believe #Marketing

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

#Thinking #Work Out #Dresses

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

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

#Eye #Makeup #Mirrors

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

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

#Jobs #Real #Ideas