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Byline: Hamish Bowles
Daphne Guinness has laid waste to her fitting room at Christian Lacroix's Parisian haute couture salon, as befits a woman whose latest style icon is Lord Nelson. "I have such a uniform fetish-isn't it terrible?" laughs Guinness, 36. "I love the idea of having a sword and a uniform and medals and ribbons and clambering onto a horse. And that hat! And maybe a patch over one eye!"
The delightfully madcap Guinness
hasn't dressed here since Lacroix's debut in 1987, when, as the nineteen-year-old bride of Spyros Niarchos, scion of the Greek shipping billionaire Stavros, she added one of the designer's signature pouf dresses (a ...