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Friday, February 10, 2012

Isabella Blow..



Heir to the family of Delves-Broughton , Isabella Blow is for many the epitome of English eccentricity. She developed close friendships with leading names in fashion, Philip Treacy for Alexander McQueen , Sheikh Majed, Ronnie Newhouse and Nadja Swarovski .
It is the one who discovered Sophie Dahl , sobbing in a corner of the aisle, Alexander McQueen , she bought the entire collection of graduation, Philip Treacy , to whom she entrusts the task of creating the hat of his holding wedding when she married Detmar Blow in 1988, Hussein Chalayan and Stella Tennant .
She was the assistant of Anna Wintour for the American edition of Vogue , and then Michael Roberts at Tatler in British Vogue , the Sunday Times before returning to the Tatler as fashion editor. Convinced of his ugliness, she almost always wore a hat signed Treacy that concealed part of his face, yet instantly recognizable to the brilliance of her lipstick. MAC has also created an in his honor.



Born in 1958, She was educated at Heathfield School in 1979 and then to Columbia University where she’s roommate Oxenburg Catherine (who would later play Amanda, in the soap opera Dynasty) Isabella off Sunday, May 6, 2007, at age 48, defeated by cancer and depression. Treacy created a hat with black feather for members of the funeral procession.