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Daphne Guinness launches music career and her first video is here
Fashion icon and professional muse Daphne Guinness, or 'Daffers' as she's known by her fashion friends, has kick-started her music career at aged 48.
The friend of Karl Lagerfeld, Philip Treacy and Alexander McQueen has just released a music video for her new single 'The Long Now.' The video looks like an average night out with Daphne: she walks around Manhattan at night wearing black sequin trousers with her Cruella-esque black and white hair pulled back under a dramatic top hat. Daphne is perhaps the most theatrical dresser alive and one of the only people who wears the McQueen Armadillo boots as if they're loafers, so it's not that surprising that it only took her a couple of hours to pull together the looks.
Daffers has also announced the release of her debut album, Optimist in Black, which she worked on with David Bowie's long-time producer Tony Visconti. So why start a music career now? Daphne said to AnOther: “Thank god I’m only really giving this a shot now, I would have had far too many hang-ups to do this when I was younger. It feels like the right moment now – it’s been spontaneous. You know, David Bowie gave me the confidence to do this. Him and Tony [Visconti] said ‘you are very good at writing songs’, which absolutely meant the world to me. So, here I am.”
Many of Daphne's lyrics draw from the pain of losing her two great friends Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow. She tells AnOther: “ I wanted people to feel like they were on a journey with me. There are real screams, real shouting, real 60s-inspired overtones. There hasn’t been an album that’s been made in this way since 1965. I realised in the process of making music, that if you let yourself off the leash, you can really start kicking down the walls, you know? Optimist in Black is also the name of the title track, which denotes this chapter of pain and well, mourning, in my life for my brother and two of my dearest friends."
Watch Daphne's music video below...