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Daphne Guinness Exhibit + Cocktail Reception & Private Tour
The Museum at FIT

Thursday, October 6, 2011
7:00PM to 9:00PM

$50.00 (Limited Quantity of Tickets)

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The Perfect Evening: A Closet of Couture and a Guinness

There’s nothing easy about coming out of the closet.  It can be a painful and terrifying experience, but taking the leap can be exhilarating and once we cross the Rubicon, we don’t look back.  However, if we had found ourselves in the closet of fashion-icon and all around doyenne of grandeur Daphne Guinness, we may never have wanted to leave. This month, join us in entering a closet far more glamorous than the one any of us pranced out of in our youth.

Daphne Guinness—heiress to the Guinness brewery fortune, model, actress, designer, devotee of all things armor—lives a life of extreme fabulosity. An internationally-recognized collector of couture, Guinness views her impressive acquisitions not as costly extravagances but instead as priceless works of art. As such, any serious fashion-phile should leap at the opportunity to visit FIT’s new show Daphne Guinness, highlighting the private collection of this unique individual. Host DEPESHA is offering readers of The Showt a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take a private tour of the exhibit guided by famed FIT Museum Director and Chief Curator Dr. Valerie Steele. Cocktail reception to follow.

With iconic couture by Alexander McQueen and others, including Chanel, Dior and Givenchy, this is one closet you’ll try every trick to stay in.

By Matt Sigl