“Everything seems to have been one long blur of work for such a long time,” she says honestly. What keeps her awake until the small hours? Painting and plotting, conjuring up new multidisciplinary projects, whether in NY or her other touchstones, London and Paris. She isn’t throwing TV’s out of windows because she doesn’t even watch it. Let’s dispel any tabloid attempts to portray Guinness as Jimmy Page in Chanel couture. I don’t want to be cool Downtown and living in the middle of a nightclub! Why would I? You can get in a taxi for that…” “I know it’s deeply Brownie-ish of me but I don’t want to be in the middle of everything. “I’ve always lived on the Upper East Side which I quite like because of the park,” she explains. Guinness has stuck to what she’s known throughout. One thing that hasn’t changed here is Lexington, it’s still pretty much the same.” My son did a very interesting flowchart of how commerce follows art – the creatives are all in Brooklyn now or Williamsburg. There was literally blood on the pavement, the sidewalk is so high there because it was designed to accommodate unloading trucks. And the Meatpacking district was just that: the Meatpacking district. “There was one Comme des Garçons store and that was it. “SoHo was full of artists, you had Jerry’s Diner instead of Prada, there was no Mercer hotel,” she reflects in a stream of consciousness. Her sister Catherine, a friend of Warhol, had been at Interview for ten years, until 1981 and Daphne had inherited all her Big Apple friends. The first time Guinness arrived in New York was 1985. But should Guinness do it, it’s taken – wrongly – with heavy intent. You can say something so flippantly or ironically but it doesn’t come across like that.” If your friend Sue from down the road says on her Twitter that she’s had a crap day and is over it all, you’d probably realise she’s not clenching the knife. “Sometimes my son gets on it and wreaks havoc but I’ve learned to be careful about what I say as people take it so literally. “I made ten hardcore friends,” she explains on the decision to keep it going. She joined as part of a charity initiative and caught the bug, finding that despite its ability to be cultural tinnitus, it’s a brilliant medium for communication if you’re able to get under the skin of it. ![]() I met him through Twitter funnily enough.”Īs we go to press, has 36,955 followers. “The detail is brilliant and it’s all in ballpoint pen. “Look at this: arsenic in Armani,” she laughs. He had done some drawings, somewhere between Aubrey Beardsley and Edward Gorey called The Homicidal Heiress.” After disappearing off screen, Guinness arrives back eager to show and tell. I then got a friend involved, Hogan McLaughlin, who’s a talented ballet dancer. Suddenly it just went wssssshhhhhhttt! It was almost a year to the day he died. ![]() “We were at the Angel Orensanz synagogue, which was the only place he ever did a show in New York, having problems getting the wind blowing into the material. The first for The Sunday Times – I was wearing this cape that Lee made me, like the one here that was at FIT ,” she says gesturing casually to a piece from her collection exhibit. “It was basically a few shoots that turned into a project. “I improvised a lot of Shakespeare in it – there’s not a script or anything,” she begins. Two days ago saw a screening of her film, The Legend of Lady White Snake. ![]() Her hair is scraped back architecturally and she’s wearing a black silk Chinese robe, its’ exquisite midnight blue embroidery catching the dull lens of the webcam sporadically. Daphne Guinness is skyping from her New York apartment.
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