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By Maureen O'Connor Sep 21, 2011 4:28 PM 43,859

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Ridiculous Fashionista: ‘I’ll Eat When I’m Dead’

Daphne Guinness—wild-eyed couture addict, eccentric beer heiress, and taker of violent baths—has coined the most wonderfully paradoxical fashion mantra ever: "I'll eat when I'm dead." She subsists on nothing but Red Bull and Ensure, and is working on a memoir. [New Yorker, image via Getty]

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