GREAT BLOW

SURREAL APPEAL

ISABELLA BLOW

Miguel Reveriego

Fashion icon Isabella Blow ne Isabella Delves Broughton, was a fashion editor, consultant, and fashion muse to hat designer Philip Treacy. A nurturer of young talent, she is credited with discovering Alexander McQueen. 

Steven Meisel 1993

Tragedy touched her life early with the drowning of her brother John in the family swimming pool at the age of two. With her parents divorce at the age of fourteen, an age when young women are at the apex of their teenage angst, her mother left - as Blow had recalled, with little more than a handshake. "Who does that?" It's very british.

Diego Uchitel

Blow was an assistant to Anna Wintour and Andre Leon Talley  at American Vogue, and worked for Michael Roberts, fashion director of Tatler.

MOURNING GLORY

Richard Burbridge Vogue 1996

"A funeral, done really well, is just like a wedding" 

Isabella Blow

Above: Her wedding day 1989

Below: With Andy Warhol London, 1986

India Fashion Week 2006

Billy Farrell

"BLOW HAT" 2006

London 2007

strange bird

London 1993

Steven Meisel

OLD AGE AIN'T NO PLACE FOR SISSIES

Dominic O'Neill London 2004

Donald McPherson

Fashion Vanguard

Tim Walker

Her final portrait, photographed for Vanity Fair on April 30, 2007 at the Battersea Arts Centre, in London, one week before her death.

Miguel Reveriego 2005

Final Blow

Vanity Fair September 2007

Photography:

Richard Burbridge

Billy Farrell

Donald McPherson

Steven Meisel

Dominic O'Neill

Miguel Reveriego

Diego Uchitel

Tim Walker

Isabella Blow

1958-2007

Once a Great Beauty

and what's with that elton john et amore?...they looked like a couple of old snarky queens last night