‘Do I have to write the literature in a one-trick town?’ sings Daphne Guinness on her new album, If her recent revelations are anything to go by, it sounds like ‘Britain’s most eccentric aristocrat’ might be turning her musical musings into a new memoir. She’ll certainly have plenty to detail. A high- co-conspirator of Alexander McQueen and fashion director Isabella Blow, Guinness has spent her life on the cutting edge of Britain’s avant garde.
Friendships with , David LaChapelle; a love affair with French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy (‘it’s driven me to madness!’); and a musical mentorship from David Bowie – when it comes to the culturati, none are more qualified to write the literature than Daphne Guinness. Born into two of the country’s most renowned dynasties, Daphne is the daughter of brewery baron Jonathan Guinness, Lord Moyne, and the French artist Suzanne Lisney (once a muse of Picasso’s). Her grandmother, Diana , once a Bright Young Thing to whom Evelyn Waugh dedicated his novel , would become notorious for her marriage to Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.
Despite growing up in the rarefied air of Britain and Ireland’s social elite, Daphne’s childhood was difficult, and she still shoulders the burden of its traumas. In a recent interview with , the 56-year-old opened up about how her aristocratic upbringing, and her fabled family name, left her isolated during her days as a boarder at St Mary’s – which also co.
