Isabella blow

Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore is coming to Somerset House. The exhibition will celebrate the extraordinary life and wardrobe of the late British patron of fashion and art, Isabella Blow. Here we showc

A Philip Tracy

A 26-letter guide devoted to the late and unforgettable icon Isabella Blow

With her genuinely shocking style, Isabella Blow was an utterly rare creature in fashion. We celebrate her on what would have been her 56th birthday.

Your shoes are ending civilization, and your jeans are making people want to vomit.

From Linda Evangelista and Kristen McMenamy, to the late Isabella Blow – the legendary photographer’s new exhibition, with images exclusively from 1993, includes the industry names that shaped fashion as we know it today.

Extravagante

In this extract from a new biography of designer Alexander McQueen by writer Andrew Wilson, his cruelty to Isabella Blow, an acclaimed stylist who made him a star, is revealed.

The Fashion World always creates its Chameleons- and sometimes It must just stand off to observe (themselves in a fish bowl) -the few others that swim in the sweet tidal pool all there own. One that has struck me of late is Isabella Blow. It is certainly her uniqueness that attracted so many. “She would say, ‘I’m going to be a bag lady, I just know it,’” says Treacy. “She talked about the Marchesa Casati, who lived on a park bench and every time she got money, she spent it on gardenias.”…