WWD reports just now that “Isabella Blow, stylist and former fashion director of Tatler and London’s Sunday Times, has died under circumstances still being determined.” You may or may not know a lot about Blow, but you’ve seen her photos virtually always in a fantastic hat by friend, milliner Philip Treacy. Their relationship was captured in the travelling museum exhibition, When Philip Met Isabella, featuring Blow’s personal collection of Treacy hats. Never has the word “muse” been more apt than in describing Blow. She was one of fashion’s great eccentrics and a big booster of emerging talents, an early supporter of Alexander McQueen, for example. We’ll surely be hearing more about Blow in the days ahead as the obit writers sharpen their pencils and the memorialists memorialize. In a fashion world of uniforms and uniformity, we need more Isabellas to keep things interesting.
Consider wearing a chapeau in honor of Ms. Blow.
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