Quotes from Daphne Guinness

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

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

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

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.

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

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.

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.

I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

Human beings all mimic each other.

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

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.

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.

From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

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.

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

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.

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

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

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