Comments on: Daphne Guinness is Just Normal, Get it?

By: Deborah Louise

Deborah Louise — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:07:45 +0000

I don’t know what you want from her. She has always stuck me as inventive and imaginative with a practical, hands-on bent (down to earth, as e said). Yes, she has great clothes but wouldn’t you, if you could afford it? I can’t afford couture so I make my clothes myself, by hand, and I suspect that if she was in my tax bracket, she’d do the same. And the marbles in the mouth – she’s a well-spoken, well-educated English aristocrat, and that is how they speak. Her perfume is to die for ($140 of my hard-earned bucks died for a bottle, a rare sacrifice). And the millions? Purely incidental. She’d make a cardboard box look like couture.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:31:41 +0000

crocodilian – Oh, you definitely get it.

Make Do – Jesus! This is like Christmas morning! I had no idea!

By: Make Do Style

Make Do Style — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:01:46 +0000

You are not alone – she bores me witless.

By: crocodilian

crocodilian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:35:57 +0000

I know I’m late on this one, but I just had to say how much I admire her for spending ten years adjusting the ratio of platform-to-heel on her big red hooker shoes so that she can “run around in them” because that’s totally not what flat shoes are for.

Is this what the baby fashion bloggers will be like when they grow up?

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:00:12 +0000

editor – You’re welcome, and thank you!

bex – I can’t deal with the marbles!

Jill – So eloquent, yes.

braindance – Punish that keyboard and then go out in the sequin dress.

Ann – They worship her, bigtime.

arline – Wow, I thought I was all alone out here.

e – I don’t want her OR that Gaga character!

Braindance – yes, yes, and yes.

Mark -Hahahaha! I figured you would.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:54:25 +0000

I get it.

By: Braindance

Braindance — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:38:06 +0000

What is normal about spending ten years getting the platform ratio of a shoe right? She did not say that she felt normal in that particular outfit, what she said was she always feels like she looks so normal.
Anybody who says that is lying, for all of us, regardless of our bank balance, strives to look different to others at some point. If we manage to is a different matter…

But yes, E, you have a totally valid point about the NYMag comments, Daphne has been doing her thing for years. I like a lot of what she wears, I would not say no to most of it, but fact still remains, she grinds on my third eye.

The only thing Lady Gargoyle (my daughter came up with that name as we watched the Glastonbury coverage) is a master of, is ripping off others.

By: e

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:14:35 +0000

I don’t mind anyone hating her, it’s easy to dislike someone who is as casually filthy rich as she is.
But compared to her other outfits, I would say she looks pretty normal, and I believe her when she says she feels that way. I mean, come on, her whole life she’s been wearing couture, that random outfit she had on was nothing special to her.

To be honest she seemed a lot more down-to-earth than I would have imagined, even just in the fact that she agreed to an online video interview.

I also have to point out how hilarious it was to see someone write in the comments page at NYMag how people like her should stop ripping off Lady GaGa and trying to be avant-garde!! HAHAHAHA.
Now SHE is a total copycat fake bimbo, at least Guiness is an original.

By: arline

arline — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:38:52 +0000

ICK, I mean ICK!

I don’t love her, and I think she is a bore.

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:42:25 +0000

Does everyone love her? Why? Everything about her looks like she is trying too hard and when complimented, busts out with the immortal line, “Oh, this old thing?”

To think – she was THISCLOSE to being Paris Hilton’s mother-in-law! Can you imagine?!

I do like her family’s beer, though.