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Mmm Mmm Guinness
You could say she was born a household name, but Daphne Guinness was always something of a fashion-world secret…until this year. When the brewing heiress recently dyed her signature badger-stripe hairdo jet-black, it caused gasps around the blogosphere. In October, meanwhile, she opened Giles Deacon's Spring 2010 runway show in Paris, and she just landed the ad campaign for Akris' debut handbag collection, shot by her collaborator pal Steven Klein. The way Guinness worked those Alexander McQueen lobster claw platforms at the party she co-hosted for François Nars' 15x15 book, the designer should consider putting her in his campaign, too. We doubt she'd turn him down, but she has bigger things in mind, i.e., building brand Daphne. Presumably, all of this exposure isn't hurting sales of her limited-edition Comme des Garçons fragrance.