if I designed clothes that I would wanna wear every day, I would be very bored as a designer.

we’re not limited by the things that we personally want.”

- rodarte

she also appears to have come from a bygone age when getting dressed was considered a demanding form of self-expression, rather than an opportunity to wallow in spandex-enabled comfort.

Her appearance is so interesting it suggests that her appearance is the least interesting thing about her.

Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of the F.I.T. museum, puts Guinness in the lineage of Grace Kelly, Tina Chow, and Nan Kempner—women whose wearing of clothes amounts to a form of creativity in itself.

she is bored by money—a great luxury. In her, as in few others, wealth has been transmogrified into a flowing, wild, slightly absurd freedom. “Sometimes I feel like I’m speaking Chinese when I go out to dinner, and everyone’s from hedge funds, and I want to talk about a certain color,” says Guinness

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

“I think the world’s just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities,”

she’s given herself over to the world of imagination

“When there were little gangs at school around the head of the lacrosse team or whatever, wanting to be cool, I found that really depressing,” she says. “I’m most comfortable being by myself.”

she’s one of the only women of that sort who manage to combine cartoonish attire with sex appeal.

“I had gone to a couple dinner parties and realized, This is not the way that I build a new life,” she says. “I wanted to be around a different kind of person. I wanted to be around artists.”

Guinness is also making her own clothes, though she doesn’t know “if I want to get on that treadmill,” she says. “I’ve got such a backlog of projects I want to do, and it is an undertaking.”

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