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Daphne’s journey began in an era that tried to categorize her before she had even found her voice. In her early years, she was a faces in the crowd, working at a department store counter and later settling into the role of a traditional housewife. For decades, the world saw her as many see older women: invisible. But Daphne was merely taking notes. When her husband passed away and she found herself a widow in her seventies, she didn’t retreat into the shadows of grief. Instead, she stepped back onto the runway with a silver-haired defiance that shocked the elite circles of London Fashion Week.
