Daphne Guinness: Haute couture is dying
She is one of the world’s most prominent collectors of haute couture, but Daphne Guinness has now declared that custom-fitted clothing is a “dying” art form.
The brewing heiress states some fashion houses no longer have the skills to produce couture. “It died because they didn’t have the clients and the manpower to do it,” she says.
“Once you begin losing all those artisans that knew how to make those things, it’s like slicing down a forest. It’s not going to grow back.”
The 44-year-old daughter of Lord Moyne, who was married to the Greek shipping heir Spyros Niarchos, adds: “They stopped making things in France. They stopped making the lace. The reason it’s dying is because of the rise of the machine, and people outsourcing to China.”
Her comments about France are unlikely to go down well with her lover, Bernard-Henri Lévy, whom she has decsribed as “quite obviously the love of my life”. Lévy is a close friend of Nicolas Sarkozy, the irascible French president.
source : telegraph.feedsportal.com
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