How Bowie inspired Daphne as an absolute beginner

HEIRESS Daphne Guinness, who made her mark in the fashion world with her outlandish taste in clothes, wants to be remembered for her music.

And she has David Bowie to thank for encouraging her singing career.

‘He was a great friend and he essentially godfathered my first album in the studio,’ she tells me at the London premiere of Moonage Daydream, a new film about Bowie. ‘I wouldn’t have my career if it wasn’t for him.’

Guinness, 54, who wore towering, sequinned platform boots, without heels, to the event, adds that Bowie, who died of cancer in 2016 at 69, encouraged her flamboyant style.