I had to share this video from Nowness.com. I find the majority of fashion films are just embarrassing. They're usually just a huge ego trip for the director or star, who is usually just some dilettante with no film experience whatsoever. While this film obviously includes the requisite ego trip, it's at least artistically filmed, properly lighted and interesting to watch. It's difficult to be bored by this subject matter if you love fashion.
I've been a fan of Daphne Guinness for years. Few women are rich, beautiful and confident enough to wear the craziest Alexander McQueen haute couture fashions right off the runway. Daphne is just one of those lucky few. When I think of McQueen, I think of Daphne. The two are interlinked in such a way that whenever I see the latest amazing runway looks of McQueen, I immediately picture in my mind, how Daphne will look in it. I loved that she stepped in at the last hour to buy the entire collection of Isabella Blow, another fashion icon of mine, before it was about to be split up and sold at auction. The couture collections of these two women are perhaps the most important fashion archives on the planet of fashion from the 1980's to the present. I have no doubt that someday, museums will fight over the right to create an exhibit around these clothes, and a new generation of students will study them for hours wondering what kind of mind could create what is absolutely wearable art.
This film allows us a brief glimpse into her closet and of course, I was in awe and in love of what I saw. I could never in a million years wear a cape made of black crow feathers but I loved how it looked on her. The silver foil, hooded jacket was also gorgeous. I just wish I could have seen the whole garment instead of just the top half. The chain mail, bejeweled glove is simply amazing and beautiful and terrifying just as I imagine Ms. Guiness is in real life.
http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/6/6/1489/daphne-guinness-undressed
I've been a fan of Daphne Guinness for years. Few women are rich, beautiful and confident enough to wear the craziest Alexander McQueen haute couture fashions right off the runway. Daphne is just one of those lucky few. When I think of McQueen, I think of Daphne. The two are interlinked in such a way that whenever I see the latest amazing runway looks of McQueen, I immediately picture in my mind, how Daphne will look in it. I loved that she stepped in at the last hour to buy the entire collection of Isabella Blow, another fashion icon of mine, before it was about to be split up and sold at auction. The couture collections of these two women are perhaps the most important fashion archives on the planet of fashion from the 1980's to the present. I have no doubt that someday, museums will fight over the right to create an exhibit around these clothes, and a new generation of students will study them for hours wondering what kind of mind could create what is absolutely wearable art.
This film allows us a brief glimpse into her closet and of course, I was in awe and in love of what I saw. I could never in a million years wear a cape made of black crow feathers but I loved how it looked on her. The silver foil, hooded jacket was also gorgeous. I just wish I could have seen the whole garment instead of just the top half. The chain mail, bejeweled glove is simply amazing and beautiful and terrifying just as I imagine Ms. Guiness is in real life.
http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/6/6/1489/daphne-guinness-undressed
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