Daphne Guinness Quotes

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

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.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

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

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.

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

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

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.

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.

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. At the end of the Roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the Roman Empire. In the same way, the '60s were a reaction against the '50s and so on. But now we've been feeding on a sort of cadaver. At the moment, we're just endlessly recycling the past.

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

If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. My wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but it's - I don't really think too much about it.

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.

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.

Human beings all mimic each other.

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

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

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

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

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.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

I'm always reading many books at a time. It might be quite unorthodox, but what I do is, since I'm always surrounded with books, I'll read a page of physics, and then I'll read a chapter of a novel that I really love, and then I'll say, "Oh well, what does that mixture do in my head?" I adore reference books. I love encyclopedias. I also like just going back to original texts, because a lot of these self-help books today.

I really try to understand what people are saying and answer as honestly as I can. But sometimes it's like they try to tie you into knots. That's why I mostly steer clear of the popular press. I try not to read . . . Well, I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.