My fairy goth-mother is an original.


She is not only attending the Met Ball, honouring her friend and my distant soul-mate, Lee McQueen, but Daphne Guinness, being the avant-garde goddess that she is, had to do something a little different.

In a piece dubbed as performance art, in collaboration with Barneys New York, Ms. Guinness just got dressed for The Ball in the store’s Madison Avenue window and headed off to the Met, complete with police escort.

See the video for yourself.
Lee is looking down and smiling, right about now.
I’ll have lots more from the gala to end all galas tonight, so watch this space, my dears.
See all posts on the Met Ball 2011.
Compare it to last year’s red carpet: