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Isabella Blow Gets Two Biographies in 2010
Isabella Blow Gets Two Biographies in 2010 July 15, 2009 12:37 pm >> Isabella Blow, discoverer of Stella Tennant, Sophie Dahl, Hussein Chalayan, Philip Treacy, Alexander McQueen — and muse to the latter two — passed away at 48 a little over two years ago after ingesting weedkiller.
"there's no point in clomping around like a duck in flat shoes" July 18, 2007 7:40 pm >> Quotes like that make Isabella Blow even more fascinating than she already was.  Amy Larocca wrote a fantastically beautiful feature for New York Magazine on Issie - it's very much like a biographical vignette, with lots of great stories and quotes.  For instance:[Issie's] grandmother was most regularly described as a cannibal after once devouring a fantastic barbecue in Papua New Guinea only to be told it was human flesh, at which point, says Detmar [Issie's husband], she demanded more.