Turn up your speakers because she mumbles, and you don’t want to miss a word.
I really don’t know what to say except Ugh.
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Wow! She’s hilarious! I too like to sit around you know, when I’m being interviewed, with my pearls on and no trousers and just mumble on, drop some names, pretend I think what I’m saying is unimportant and then flash the camera my red high heels and you know, occasionally my lady garden..
She must be drunk right? Not a single part of that made any sense whatsoever.
Haha! Drunk as a skunk.
eeeeeeeeuw! Close them, put it away, no more lady garden, purlease!!!!! Grand-mama will be turning over in her grave!
I read an interview with her ages ago and she was portrayed as a very batty, eccentric, a bit attention-deficient, very posh (so posh she doesn’t even know how posh she is, and therefore incapable of being a snob), quite lonely, a bit sad, but terribly, terrible “naaice.” If she had been born a normal person, she probably would have gone to art school and done very interesting things, but instead she married young, as her generation of posh girls did, and became a shopaholic and patron of the arts.
I don’t know why people think she’s so important (she’s clearly not very clever. I’ve heard her speak a few times now), but it was hard to dislike her after reading that– she just seemed very sweet and very human and quite pathetic.
I think annemarie might have summed it up there. I felt sad watching it but I think I might try serving tea to guests in my best china (wedgewood so you know) in big black knickers and pearls – if nothing else it will be a hoot!
I think the quality of the video isn’t great and if you visit
http://minniemuse.com – all of it looks hand-held rather than being some glossy production number with everyone mic-ed up – so the mumbling effect is probably all part of the lo-fi capture.
Daphne appears to be wearing shorts – OK she isn’t of the ‘legs closed and crossed at the ankles school’ of chair-sitting, but I don’t think that’s a witch-burning offence yet. If you look at the Isabella Blow segment you can see she isn’t naked below the waist (what vivid imaginations some of you have!).
Like her – or loathe her – ‘drunk’ ‘not very clever’ and ‘pathetic’ – really?
As to name-dropping – she may very well be on first name terms with a lot of the people she talks about – part of the circle she moves in – hardly surprising?
Holy shit – I cannot believe I wrote a whole para about this.
I don’t like or loathe her, I don’t care enough either way to have feelings that strong. But, I do agree with annemarie. Not very clever does seem to sum it up for me.
She just sounds old, not her speech but how she carries herself. And I am a little put off by her spread legs. Other than that it is another socialite. Why do people bow down to these people? These are just people like everyone else despite the designer drug habits and hefty bank accounts.
What is she trying to talk about?
Did I really hear her say “the simpler the better?”
Do you think those chairs were made out of real cheetah’s?
I need subtitles.
She needs to learn to sit like a lady and stop sitting like a cowboy. Offensive. How does she think that’s ok? Awful.
I lasted through half of it and gave up.
I didn’t understand many words and what I did understand didn’t interest me.
It was just “blah blah blah”.
And I still don’t know what is the point of Daphne Guiness.
And I don’t care.
All I know, it seems that she has a loooot of accesories.
The curtains are more interesting … I began to focus on them about 20 seconds into her gramblinging. Sheesh!
Ok I have to butt in and say I met her at a party once and Annemarie is on the button…she is so posh she doesn’t know how posh she is (“Oh this old thing? It’s just some old piece of jewelry…most of the diamonds are gone.”) but ever so nice and completely down-to-earth, considering. I really truly liked her and she seemed very intelligent at least when it comes to the arena of fashion.
OK I’ve listened to it for a second time and I still can’t make head nor tail of what she is saying. Apart from: “Chanel, it can be great or it can be a little much”
A little much what Daphne?
Yup, I like her. Rock on Daphne Guinness with yo posh self.
^seconded. She seems a little off in her own world and decidedly odd, but I like her. I’d much rather look at her than some of the other people the media decides are “style icons”, too.
… and if nothing else, she managed to talk about fashion without using the words insane, obsessed, curate, organic or sick …
I don’t think she is pretentious at all, she is just an upper class eccentric loon. All the aristocracy mumble like that, listen to Prince Charles talk, he can hardly string a sentence together. Poor old Daphne she comes from a long line of eccentrics but have to say the Mitford sisters were interesting
I agree with your comments, by the way! Apart from, It was a video where was caught unawares, and I had had the chance to articulate in a serious way ‘clothing’, I might not sound quite so ridiculous Although I am no curator as is made clear by my words.
I do pity you for having to listen to that, it was made by a student who wanted to make a little film and I would have felt guilty saying no
I am not Suzy Menkes obviously ,and, I am as astonished as you that anybody is interested. BECAUSE I AM NOT!
Enough now as I have a life believe it or not and quite frankly it has little to do with clothes! that is why I can’t speak about them .
But at least I don’t get a fashion designer to design a line and pretend I did it which seems to be the prevailing trend, the elephant in the sitting room. When i make my tiny things, I really do it so for that at least I can hold my head up.
I am glad that my fiend showed me… you have to have a sense of humor
I did not ask for this, and frankly I feel more and more like checking out
Daphne
Issie was right
another thing, filmed in a hotel The curtain are something else, I had forgotten, very 60′ sitcom , I will never ,ever put you through that again.
but ask yourself
should you even bother to listen?
UUURGH
Wow. Déjà vu anyone?
^ I know what you mean, but the question still needs to be asked…is DAPHNE the Daphne?
I watched half before I started to doze off. She is just not particularly interesting to listen to and I truly have no idea about what she was trying to say anyhow.
um wut? did anyone watch the whole thing?
Dribbler – NO!
…is she wearing pants?
i don’t know who daphne guinness is, but i know what guinness is, and i agree that chanel can sometimes be a little much.
Daphne – But what was Issie right about?? I don’t like to hear you saying that you feel like “checking out.” It was indeed nice of you to do that interview. Kindness is worth all the Chanel on the planet.
Maybe you will be remembered for your kindness, in the end, and not your wardrobe! xo
If indeed the real Daphne came to visit, her stock just shot up 500% in my book. People who don’t take themselves incredibly serious will always constantly win at everything.
Maybe the “Issie” she is referring to is Isabella Blow who committed suicide in 2007 but I hope not
^kikie- it probably is.
If that really is Daphne up there and not an impersonator, that’s def. unexpected. And also a little sad (I only just maybe understood the part about ‘checking out’….)
i am afraid it is me, with the awful accent that you detest, and yes, I mean Issie, but clothing is a very tiny part of my life. I thank you for your judgement. I feel more secure in the bleak and somewhat depressing decision that is i suppose is what is meant to be. we have outlasted our time, and I am glad you confirmed that.
For the record, I have no idea what collection is what.
It is not my driving force.
Bless you all
and, by the way, my wardrobe is a mess….
Daphne – You have not outlasted your time! Stop it! You are a mother. I am worried by the tone of your comments…unless it’s just your standard gallows humor, you seem very depressed.
I need you to stick around. Whoever you are.
Daphne- Like Sister Wolf, I sincerely hope you’re pulling the other one. Surely the judgment of a bunch of strangers, not one of whom knows you in real life, isn’t really a factor (however small) in whatever decision you refer to? Especially if it’s bleak?
I will say this though- you’re a lot more gracious about being criticised by Sister than certain other people have been in the past.
I’m with Dru. Daphne, you seem like a gem. Keep pluggin’ on. Even if it seems hard. People like me really admire you, if only because you do what you like. And there is freedom in that.
Aw, I like Daphne. I don’t think she comes across as pretentious at all. She may be wealthy, educated and have a love for fashion but I don’t think she ever comes across as anything but genuine and a bit awkward (no offense, Daphne, if you’re reading- I think it’s endearing.) And I love her style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elEuDqrX1fo&feature=related
I like this interview. 🙂
How fucking dare you! Say such stuff about somebody you dont even know! Just because your hiding behind the internet you think its ok to drop poison about somebody. I know Daphne so when I say she is a genuine amazing person I say so with the knowledge that I actually know who she is, not just have read a few things on the internet and jumped to negative conclusions. She does so much stuff you would never even know about.
Mark – Would you like as award of some kind?
No thanks. Structuring a sentence is something I presumed most people could do…
Mark – Awwww, are you referring to my typo? Here, I’ll fix it for you!
Would you like an award of some kind?
No I wasnt refering to a typo, I was refering to you asking if I wanted an award for what I had put. And you are anyway???… Oh thats right text on my screen. No more, No less.
This is the most candid glimpse into Daphne’s fascinating personality. It’s amazing how normal and comfortable she is… and apparently VERY kind enough to open up her heart and her life in this interview. She has such a genuine spirit… and appears so down to earth — & despite the accent, I find her to have an undeniably wicked sense of humor. I don’t care what you all say… watching and listening to her makes me smile. She seems cool to have tea with!!!!