Daphne Guinness

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

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

“Nothing terrifies me more than being social.”

“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.”

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

“Oh, I love tea. I have to take tea bags wherever I go.”

“From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!”

“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.”