Daphne Guiness. Icon. Goddess.

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I am going to cut my self some slack... Nothing I could write could possibly due justice, or properly describe the extraordinary assemblege of clothing that comprise the Daphne Guiness Exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology in N.Y. (through January 7th).  I still can't certain ensembles out of my mind.

Daphne Guiness was named to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame in 1994. I don't know how she escaped my radar until my two visits to the Alexander McQueen exhibit this summer at the Met...that is a heady honor that is not bestowed lightly.

Daphne, now 43, is a Guiness, an heir to the Guiness Brewery by birth and the Granddaughter of Nancy Mitford famed British author, the eldest of the 6 notorious "Mitford Sisters".  At 19 she married Spyros Niarchos, (son of billionaire shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos) and bore 3 children.  They divorced in 1999. She is also stunningly beautiful.

Alexander McQueen 1969-2010

Nothing can really prepare you for the savage beauty of Savage Beauty.  

This extraordinary retrospective of Alexander McQueen's unique, avant-garde genius on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute left me breathless.   Brilliantly curated by Andrew Bolten and Harold Koda, this exhibit of 100 ensembles and 70 accessories, is broken down into six themes that pervaded McQueen's work and mind; death and lightness, predator and prey, man and machine and always nature...