| Daphne Guinness | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 November 1967 Hampstead, London, England |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Hair colour | Platinium Blonde |
| Eye colour | Brown |
| Weight | 58 kg (127.87 lbs) |
The Honourable Daphne Diana Joan Suzannah Guinness (born 9 November 1967 in Hampstead, London [1]) is an artist of Irish, English, and French descent and an heiress of the Guinness family. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1994.[2]
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Guinness is the daughter of Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne and his second wife, Suzanne Lisney (d. 2005 of lung cancer).[3][4]
In the mid-1980s, she lived in New York City with her sister Catherine Guinness, who was a companion of Andy Warhol. She married Spyros Niarchos, son of the Greek shipping billionaire Stavros Niarchos, in 1987 at the age of 19, but divorced in 1999 with a reported settlement of about £20 million.
Guinness lives in London and Manhattan, and has three children,[3] following her marriage to Spyros Niarchos:
The close relationship between Guinness and married French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy has become something of an open secret known and acknowledged by most American society columnists since 2008. In the 2011 February issue of the US Harper's Bazaar,[5] her friend, the fashion writer Derek Blasberg, quoted her description of him: "He is quite obviously the love of my life".[6]
On 8 December 2009, she appeared in Kid Cudi's music video, Pursuit of Happiness.[4]
Guinness has designed a range of clothing with Dover Street Market and released an eponymous fragrance in 2009 with Comme des Garçons. Guinness has collected fashion, specifically haute couture, for a number of years, and in 2010 bought the entire wardrobe of the late Isabella Blow, in her owns words, to “prevent Issie’s possessions becoming mere morbid memorabilia… to preserve it.” She has a fascination with armour, and in 2006 approached her great friend Shaun Leane to create a gold and diamond arm glove. Titled 'Contra Mundum' or 'Against The World', this handcrafted, intricately made objet d’art took five years to create and develop and is perhaps one of the most technically advanced pieces in the world of artisan jewels.[7]
Guinness is prominent in the fashion world as a journalist and collector of haute couture. She has an interest in the use of armour in fashion.[8] She was a model in Naomi Campbell's Fashion for Relief runway show for the White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti in 2010. In September 2010, NARS Cosmetics launched a collection dedicated to her. [9] In December 2011, MAC will launch a new collection dedicated to her. [10]