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My goodness  Ms Guinness is appalled by people's 'sloppy' dress sense She favours 6 " shoes with no heels,  tiny corsets and extravagant hats.  So perhaps it isn’t surprising to learn that fashionista Daphne Guinness has a low opinion of the clothes other people wear. The heiress to the brewing dynasty says:  ‘You can tell the state of civilisation by the way people dress.  If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think?  It is just being sloppy. And it is not about the money, it is a mindset.’ Speaking at a fashion party in Mayfair, the 42-year-old daughter of Lord Moyne tells me people don’t make enough effort to dress properly. ‘I have nothing against people who are round,’ she adds. ‘I am far too thin, for example. I’d really love to put on a few pounds. But I certainly think some people look tremendously unhealthy — and quite unhappy actually.’

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect The John Storer Residence, 1923 Select Language​▼ 8161 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90069 $6,900,000 Frank Lloyd Wright, The John Storer Residence, 1923. Quoting Sally Woodbridge from her book on the California houses of the Historic American Buildings Survey: "Of all the architects who perceived the Edenic possibilities of California, none capitalized on them with more sensitivity and assurance than Frank Lloyd Wright." A timeless Edenic magic lives on today in the restored, and eminently

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