She discovered Alexander McQueen and purchased his entire graduate collection for £5,000, paying it off in weekly £100 installments. Blow had a natural sense of style and a good feeling for future fashion directions. In 1993 she worked with the photographer Steven Meisel producing the Babes in London shoot, which featured Plum Sykes, Bella Freud and Honor Fraser. I want to be kissed by the people I love. I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. They say, Oh, can I kiss you? I say, No, thank you very much. In a 2002 interview with Tamsin Blanchard, Blow declared that she wore extravagant hats for a practical reason: She soon began wearing Treacy's hats, making them a signature part of her flamboyant style. Realizing Treacy's talent, Blow established Treacy in her London flat, where he worked on his collections. Philip Treacy designed the bride's wedding headdress and a now-famous fashion relationship was forged. In 1989, Blow married her second husband, barrister and art dealer Detmar Hamilton Blow, a grandson (and namesake) of the early 20th-century society architect Detmar Blow, in Gloucester Cathedral. During this period she was romantically linked to editor Tim Willis. She returned to London in 1986 and worked for Michael Roberts, then the fashion director of Tatler and The Sunday Times Style magazine. While working in New York, she befriended Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Blow was hired initially as Wintour's assistant, but it was not long before she was assisting André Leon Talley, as of 2008 US Vogue 's editor-at-large. In 1981 she married her first husband, Nicholas Taylor (whom she divorced in 1983), and was introduced to the fashion director of the US edition of Vogue, Anna Wintour. A year later, she left the Art History programme at Columbia, moved to Texas, and worked for Guy Laroche. I wore a handkerchief with knots on the side, and my cousin saw me in the post office and said, What are you doing? I said, What do you think I look like I'm doing? I'm a cleaner! Career īlow moved to New York City in 1979 to study Ancient Chinese Art at Columbia University and shared a flat with the actress Catherine Oxenberg. I was working in a scone shop for years, selling apricot-studded scones. She told Tamsin Blanchard of The Observer in 2002: īlow studied for her A-levels at Heathfield School, after which she enrolled at a secretarial college and then took odd jobs. Isabella did not get along with her father, who bequeathed her only £5,000 from his estate, which was worth more than one million pounds. In 1972, when she was 14, her parents separated and her mother left the household, bidding each daughter farewell with a handshake. Sir Evelyn was the only son of Jock Delves Broughton his sister, Rosamond, married Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat in 1938.īlow had two sisters, Julia and Lavinia her brother, John, drowned in the family's swimming pool at the age of two.
Born Isabella Delves Broughton in Marylebone, London, she was the eldest child of Major Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, a military officer, and his second wife, Helen Mary Shore, a barrister.
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