Isabella Blow-a sad, sad but amazing story...

Isabella Blow…..what a sad, sad story, but amazing if you see to style and decor of your body…. She was a British magazine editor and international style icon. 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. She was introduced to the fashion world by the director of the U.S. edition of Vogue, Anna Wintour. While working in New York, she befriended Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1993, Blow worked with the photographer Steven Meisel producing the Babes in London shoot featuring Plum Sykes, Bella Freud, and Honor Fraser. Isabella Blow had a natural sense of style and a good feeling for future fashion directions. She discovered Alexander McQueen and purchased his entire graduate collection. She also was responsible for the resurgence of the crystal-rhinestone firm Swarovski after convincing her designer friends to use the company's products in their fashions and accessories. Blow was the fashion director of Tatler. 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. Toward the end of her life, Blow had become seriously depressed and reportedly was anguished over her inability to "find a home in a world she influenced". On May 6, 2007, during a weekend house party, Blow announced that she was going shopping. Instead, she was later discovered collapsed on a bathroom floor by her sister Lavinia and was taken to Hospital, where Blow told the doctor she drank the weedkiller Paraquat.