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It should be written as <i>Delves Broughton </i>at birth<i><wbr /></i>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Isabella Blow</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:2005_Stuckist_Turner_demo_(1)_Ausschnitt_Isabella_Blow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/2005_Stuckist_Turner_demo_%281%29_Ausschnitt_Isabella_Blow.jpg" decoding="async" width="188" height="250" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="188" data-file-height="250" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Blow in 2005</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Isabella Delves Broughton</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1958-11-19</span>)</span>19 November 1958<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">7 May 2007<span style="display:none">(2007-05-07)</span> (aged 48)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Gloucester" title="Gloucester">Gloucester</a>, Gloucestershire, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cause of death</th><td class="infobox-data">Suicide by poisoning</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_Cathedral" title="Gloucester Cathedral">Gloucester Cathedral</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1993–2007</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Nicholas Taylor</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1981; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1983)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Detmar Blow</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1989)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Isabella Blow</b> (née <b>Delves Broughton</b>; 19 November 1958 – 7 May 2007)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYMagNuttyAunt_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMagNuttyAunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an English magazine editor. She was mentor to <a href="/wiki/Philip_Treacy" title="Philip Treacy">Philip Treacy</a>, and is credited with discovering the models <a href="/wiki/Stella_Tennant" title="Stella Tennant">Stella Tennant</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Dahl" title="Sophie Dahl">Sophie Dahl</a>, and fashion designer <a href="/wiki/Alexander_McQueen" title="Alexander McQueen">Alexander McQueen</a>, beginning when she bought the entirety of <a href="/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_Stalks_His_Victims" title="Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims">his graduate show</a> inspired by <a href="/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper" title="Jack the Ripper">Jack the Ripper</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isabella_Blow&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born Isabella Delves Broughton in <a href="/wiki/Marylebone" title="Marylebone">Marylebone, London</a>, she was the eldest child of Major <a href="/wiki/Sir_Evelyn_Delves_Broughton,_12th_Bt" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, 12th Bt">Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton</a>, a military officer, and his second wife, Helen Mary Shore, a <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a>. Sir Evelyn was the only son of <a href="/wiki/Jock_Delves_Broughton" title="Jock Delves Broughton">Sir Jock Delves Broughton</a>; his sister, Rosamond, married <a href="/wiki/Simon_Fraser,_15th_Lord_Lovat" title="Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat">the 15th Lord Lovat</a> in 1938. </p><p>Blow was also known as 'Issy'.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blow had two sisters, <a href="/wiki/Julia_Rausing" title="Julia Rausing">Julia</a> and Lavinia; her brother, John, drowned in the family's swimming pool at the age of two. This had a profound effect on her.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1972, when she was 14, her parents separated and her mother left the household, bidding each daughter farewell with a handshake. Her parents divorced two years later. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Blow studied for her <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Level_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Advanced Level (UK)">A-levels</a> at <a href="/wiki/Heathfield_School,_Ascot" title="Heathfield School, Ascot">Heathfield School</a>, after which she enrolled at a secretarial college and then took odd jobs.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She told <a href="/wiki/Tamsin_Blanchard" title="Tamsin Blanchard">Tamsin Blanchard</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> in 2002: </p><blockquote><p>I've done the most peculiar jobs. I was working in a scone shop for years, selling apricot-studded scones. I was a cleaner in London for two years. 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!<sup id="cite_ref-tasmin_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tasmin-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isabella_Blow&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blow moved to New York City in 1979 to study <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Chinese Art">Ancient Chinese Art</a> at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> and shared a <a href="/wiki/Apartment" title="Apartment">flat</a> with the actress <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Oxenberg" title="Catherine Oxenberg">Catherine Oxenberg</a>. A year later, she left the Art History programme at Columbia, moved to <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, and worked for <a href="/wiki/Guy_Laroche" title="Guy Laroche">Guy Laroche</a>. 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Wintour" title="Anna Wintour">Anna Wintour</a>. Blow was hired initially as Wintour's assistant, but it was not long before she was assisting <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Leon_Talley" title="André Leon Talley">André Leon Talley</a>, as of 2008 US <i>Vogue</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s editor-at-large. While working in New York, she befriended <a href="/wiki/Andy_Warhol" title="Andy Warhol">Andy Warhol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat" title="Jean-Michel Basquiat">Jean-Michel Basquiat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> She returned to London in 1986 and worked for <a href="/wiki/Michael_Roberts_(fashion_journalist)" title="Michael Roberts (fashion journalist)">Michael Roberts</a>, then the fashion director of <i><a href="/wiki/Tatler" title="Tatler">Tatler</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i> <i>Style</i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this period she was romantically linked to editor Tim Willis.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="WP:NEWSBLOG The Guardian is a good source, however if your going to use a Guardian news blog as a source. The author has to be a professional, however since the author isn’t a professional the source isn’t reliable. (November 2019)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 1989, Blow married her second husband, barrister and art dealer Detmar Hamilton Blow,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a grandson of the early 20th-century society architect <a href="/wiki/Detmar_Blow" title="Detmar Blow">Detmar Blow</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Gloucester_Cathedral" title="Gloucester Cathedral">Gloucester Cathedral</a>. <a href="/wiki/Philip_Treacy" title="Philip Treacy">Philip Treacy</a> designed the bride's wedding headdress and a now-famous fashion relationship was forged. Realizing Treacy's talent, Blow established Treacy in her London flat, where he worked on his collections. She soon began wearing Treacy's hats, making them a signature part of her flamboyant style.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2002 interview with Tamsin Blanchard, Blow declared that she wore extravagant hats for a practical reason: </p><blockquote><p>[...] to keep everyone away from me. They say, Oh, can I kiss you? I say, No, thank you very much. That's why I've worn the hat. Goodbye. I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.<sup id="cite_ref-tasmin_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tasmin-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In 1993 she worked with the photographer <a href="/wiki/Steven_Meisel" title="Steven Meisel">Steven Meisel</a> producing the <i>Babes in London</i> shoot, which featured <a href="/wiki/Plum_Sykes" title="Plum Sykes">Plum Sykes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bella_Freud" title="Bella Freud">Bella Freud</a> and <a href="/wiki/Honor_Fraser" title="Honor Fraser">Honor Fraser</a>. Blow had a natural sense of style and a good feeling for future fashion directions. She discovered <a href="/wiki/Alexander_McQueen" title="Alexander McQueen">Alexander McQueen</a> and purchased his entire graduate collection for £5,000, paying it off in weekly £100 installments. Spotting <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Dahl" title="Sophie Dahl">Sophie Dahl</a>, Blow described her as "a blow up doll with brains", and launched the model's career.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blow supported both the fashion world and the art world. Artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster created a shadow portrait of her which was displayed in the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blow was the fashion director of <i>Tatler</i> and consulted for <a href="/wiki/DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a> <a href="/wiki/Lycra" class="mw-redirect" title="Lycra">Lycra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lacoste" title="Lacoste">Lacoste</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Swarovski" title="Swarovski">Swarovski</a>. She became the subject of an exhibition in 2002 entitled <i>When Philip met Isabella</i>, which featured sketches and photographs of her wearing Treacy's hat designs.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004 Blow had an acting cameo playing a character called Antonia Cook in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_Aquatic_with_Steve_Zissou" title="The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou">The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-IB_IMDB_profile_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IB_IMDB_profile-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an unreliable source. (November 2019)">unreliable source?</span></a></i>]</sup> She starred in 2005 in a project by artist <a href="/wiki/Matthieu_Laurette" title="Matthieu Laurette">Matthieu Laurette</a>, commissioned and produced by Frieze Projects 2005 and entitled "What Do They Wear at Frieze Art Fair?" It consisted of daily guided tours of <a href="/wiki/Frieze_Art_Fair" title="Frieze Art Fair">Frieze Art Fair</a> led by Blow and fellow international fashion experts <a href="/wiki/Peter_Saville_(artist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Saville (artist)">Peter Saville</a>, Kira Joliffe, and Bay Garnett.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly before her death, Blow was the creative director and stylist of a series of books for an Arabic beauty magazine, <i>Alef</i>; the books were being produced by Kuwaiti fashion entrepreneur <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sheikh_Majed_al-Sabah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sheikh Majed al-Sabah (page does not exist)">Sheikh Majed al-Sabah</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Illness">Illness</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isabella_Blow&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Illness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Toward the end of her life, Blow became seriously depressed and was reportedly anguished over her inability to "find a home in a world she influenced". <a href="/wiki/Daphne_Guinness" title="Daphne Guinness">Daphne Guinness</a>, a friend of Blow's, stated: "She was upset that Alexander McQueen didn't take her along when he sold his brand to <a href="/wiki/Gucci" title="Gucci">Gucci</a>. Once the deals started happening, she fell by the wayside. Everybody else got contracts, and she got a free dress".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a 2002 interview with Tamsin Blanchard, it was Blow who brokered the deal in which Gucci purchased McQueen's label.<sup id="cite_ref-tasmin_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tasmin-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other pressures on her included financial problems (Blow was disinherited by her father in 1994)<sup id="cite_ref-tasmin_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tasmin-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and infertility. </p><p>Isabella and Detmar Blow separated in 2004. Detmar Blow went on to have an affair with <a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Theobald" title="Stephanie Theobald">Stephanie Theobald</a>, the society editor of British <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Bazaar" title="Harper's Bazaar">Harper's Bazaar</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while his estranged wife entered into a liaison with a <a href="/wiki/Gondolier" class="mw-redirect" title="Gondolier">gondolier</a> she met in <a href="/wiki/Venice,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Venice, Italy">Venice</a>. During the couple's separation, Blow was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Bipolar_disorder" title="Bipolar disorder">bipolar disorder</a> and began undergoing <a href="/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy" title="Electroconvulsive therapy">electroshock therapy</a>. For a time, the treatments appeared to be helpful. During this period she also had an affair with <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Mellon" title="Matthew Mellon">Matthew Mellon</a>; however, after an eighteen-month separation,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isabella and Detmar Blow were reconciled. Soon afterward, she was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Ovarian_cancer" title="Ovarian cancer">ovarian cancer</a>. </p><p>Depressed over her waning celebrity status<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and her cancer diagnosis, Blow began telling friends that she was suicidal.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMagNuttyAunt_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMagNuttyAunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006 and 2007, Blow repeatedly tried to kill herself.<sup id="cite_ref-daily_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-daily-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isabella_Blow&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 6 May 2007, during a weekend house party at Hilles, where the guests included Treacy and his partner, Stefan Bartlett, Blow announced that she was going shopping. Instead, Blow was later discovered collapsed on a bathroom floor and was taken to <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_Royal_Hospital" title="Gloucestershire Royal Hospital">Gloucestershire Royal Hospital</a>, where she told the doctor she had drunk <a href="/wiki/Weed_killer" class="mw-redirect" title="Weed killer">weed killer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYBadHatter_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYBadHatter-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She died at the hospital the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMagNuttyAunt_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMagNuttyAunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blow's death was initially reported as being caused by <a href="/wiki/Ovarian_cancer" title="Ovarian cancer">ovarian cancer</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, a coroner later ruled the death a <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her funeral was held at <a href="/wiki/Gloucester_Cathedral" title="Gloucester Cathedral">Gloucester Cathedral</a> on 15 May 2007. Her casket, made of willow, was surmounted by one of her Philip Treacy hats as well as a floral tribute, and her pallbearers included her godson Otis Ferry, a son of the rock star <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Ferry" title="Bryan Ferry">Bryan Ferry</a> (in 2010, Bryan Ferry dedicated his <i><a href="/wiki/Olympia_(Bryan_Ferry_album)" title="Olympia (Bryan Ferry album)">Olympia</a></i> album <i>in memoriam Isabella Blow and <a href="/wiki/David_Williams_(guitarist)" title="David Williams (guitarist)">David Williams</a></i>). Actor <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Everett" title="Rupert Everett">Rupert Everett</a> and actress <a href="/wiki/Joan_Collins" title="Joan Collins">Joan Collins</a> delivered eulogies.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Opera singer Charles Eliasch sang. A memorial service was held in the <a href="/wiki/Guards_Chapel,_Wellington_Barracks" class="mw-redirect" title="Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks">Guards Chapel</a> in London on 18 September 2007, where <a href="/wiki/Anna_Wintour" title="Anna Wintour">Anna Wintour</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geordie_Greig" title="Geordie Greig">Geordie Greig</a> spoke. <a href="/wiki/Prince_Michael_of_Kent" title="Prince Michael of Kent">Prince Michael</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princess_Michael_of_Kent" title="Princess Michael of Kent">Princess Michael of Kent</a> were in attendance. Wintour's eulogy and part of the memorial service can be seen in DVD disc two of <i><a href="/wiki/The_September_Issue" title="The September Issue">The September Issue</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isabella_Blow&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHilary_Alexander2007" class="citation news cs1">Hilary Alexander (7 May 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070510033505/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Ffashion%2F2007%2F05%2F07%2Fefisabella107.xml">"Death of an Original"</a>. <i>The Telegraph</i>. 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href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-202087-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-202087-1">978-0-06-202087-1</a>.</li> <li>Crowe, Lauren Goldstein, <i>Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion</i>, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-59294-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-312-59294-3">978-0-312-59294-3</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isabella_Blow&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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