Profile
Isabella Blow
Magazine Editor + Stylist + Actress + Model
Female
Born
Nov 19, 1958
Hometown
Marylebone
Died
May 7, 2007
Death Place
England
Other Names
Broughton, Isabel...
Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. The muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as the fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
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Greg Olear: Prize ProseHuffington Post - Jan 22, 2013
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Fashion: Lady Gaga Buys A Mc Queen Dress At Daphne Guinness AuctionLATimes - Jun 29, 2012
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O Que Isabella Blow Diria Da Moda Brasileira Hoje?Wall Street Journal - Jun 18, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1958
Birth
Born on November 19, 1958.
TEENAGE
1972
13 Years Old
Blow had two sisters, Julia and Lavinia, and a brother, John, who drowned in the family's swimming pool at the age of two. In 1972, when she was 14, her parents separated and her mother left the household, bidding each daughter farewell with a handshake.
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TWENTIES
1979
20 Years Old
Blow moved to New York City in 1979 to study Ancient Chinese Art at Columbia University and shared a flat with the actress Catherine Oxenberg.
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1981
22 Years Old
In 1981, she married her first husband, Nicholas Taylor (whom she divorced in 1983), and was introduced to the fashion director of the U.S. edition of Vogue, Anna Wintour.
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1986
27 Years Old
In 1986, Blow returned to London and worked for Michael Roberts, then the fashion director of Tatler and the Sunday Times Style magazine.
THIRTIES
1989
30 Years Old
In 1989, Blow married her second husband, art dealer Detmar Hamilton Blow, in Gloucester Cathedral; he is a grandson (and namesake) of the early 20th-century society architect Detmar Blow.
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1993
34 Years Old
In 1993, Blow worked with the photographer Steven Meisel producing the Babes in London shoot featuring Plum Sykes, Bella Freud, and Honor Fraser.
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FORTIES
Blow was the fashion director of Tatler and consulted for DuPont Lycra, Lacoste, and Swarovski. In 2002, she became the subject of an exhibition entitled When Philip met Isabella, featuring sketches and photographs of her wearing Treacy's hat designs.
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2006
47 Years Old
Depressed over her waning celebrity status and her cancer diagnosis, Blow began telling friends that she was suicidal. In 2006, Blow attempted suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills.
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In 2007, Blow made several more suicide attempts by driving her car into the rear of a truck, attempting to obtain horse tranquilizers, trying to drown herself in a lake and by overdosing while on a beach in India.
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