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July 2, 2008 3:25 pm
As seems to be the case with most fashion dinners in Paris nowadays, toward the end of the evening (and certainly after the main course), chances are that the majority of the VIPs will have temporarily relocated to the street for a cigarette and a gossip session. At Tuesday night’s dinner for Daphne Guinness’s short film at Kaviar Kaspia, the situation was exactly that, with more than half the guests—including some who don’t smoke but didn’t want to miss out on the outdoor party, like Guinness herself—finding themselves on the pavement at one point. After the guest of honor came down to mingle with her nicotine-craving friends, a game of “Describe Daphne’s Look” sprang up. Was she a “chic techno skunk” or was she a “fabulous robotic couture clothes hanger”? Luckily for the players of the game, who included Eva Mendes, stylist George Cortina, Lauren Santo Domingo, Amanda Harlech, Hamish Bowles, and Tatiana Santo Domingo, there was more than one label for the black-and-white-haired Lagerfeld muse and fashion icon (Cortina even offered a story about how he watched Guinness stomp her way out of the Ritz at 10 that morning and saw French women dropping their handbags in amazement). You can play this game at home, too. Just ask yourself how you would sum up Daphne and her very short silver Alexander McQueen dress; hordes of diamonds adorning her hair, ears, neck, wrists, and hands; and sparkly pink shoes that she had specially made by a woman called Natacha Marro, who used to specialize in making footwear for pole dancers.
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