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August 2009 Issue

Fashion Muse Daphne Guinness Gives Us Something to Muse On: Recycling Outfits

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REDUCE, RE-USE, RECYCLE. Left, Steven Klein and Daphne Guinness at ACRIA's annual Cocktails at Sunset at Klein's Bridgehampton estate on July 18, 2009; right, Guinness and Klein at the celebration of the new Ellen Hermanson Breast Center Southampton Hospital, on August 15, 2009. From PatrickMcMullan.com.

Recycling has never been as en vogue as it was this weekend when style icon Daphne Guinness showed up to a party at Steven Klein's Bridgehampton estate wearing a black dress and sky-high red shoes. We thought we had seen that ensemble before. It turns out we had—she wore pretty much the same get-up to a Vanity Fair party at Klein's residence on July 18. Just when you thought the woman with one of the world's most famous couture habits couldn't get any cooler, she has to make it O.K. for the masses to go shopping in their closets. Although we're not ruling out the idea that she simply hasn't gone home to change since the last party ...