penny-dreaddfull Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 hutch, glad u have the sense of humor to appreciate that pic!!i had some very... interesting comments when it was my avatar, to say the least!!!! i did it all for the lolz haha.. no wonder with a pic like that as your avatar, not everyone get the idea of that picture I guess.. (not a surprise, really) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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penny-dreaddfull Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Isabella Blow (née Isabella Delves Broughton, 19 November 1958 – 6 May 2007)[1][2] 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 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 for ₤5,000, paying it off in weekly ₤100 installments. Spotting Sophie Dahl, Isabella described Dahl as, "a blow up doll with brains", and launched the model's career.[4] According to Vanity Fair, 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. 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", wrote Cathy Horyn of The New York Times on May 10, 2007. As one of Isabella's friends, Daphne Guinness, told Horyn, "She was upset that [Alexander] McQueen didn't take her along when he sold his brand to Gucci. Once the deals started happening, she fell by the wayside. Everybody else got contracts, and she got a free dress". According to a 2002 interview with Tamsin Blanchard, it was Blow who brokered the deal in which Gucci purchased McQueen's label. As photographer Mario Testino told Vanity Fair in September 2007, "She was brilliant at finding new things and could always find new ways of looking at things but it was hard for her to define her job, and it was hard to find ways to pay her. So you find a designer, or you find the model, but how do you invoice for that?" On May 6, 2007, during a weekend house party at Hilles, where the guests included Treacy and his life partner, Stefan Bartlett, 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 Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, where Blow told the doctor she drank the weedkiller Paraquat. It was also reported that Blow discovered that she had ovarian cancer around this time.[9]A posthumous profile in Vanity Fair stated merely that she had had an ovarian cyst removed shortly before her death, with no mention of ovarian cancer. wiki wiki wikipedia one thing i noticed here at BZ, not much is mentioned about isabella blow her influence will be felt for years to come this amazing fashionista influenced more trends in the last 15 yrs than many designers do in their entire careers. her personal style and charming wit will be missed by all who knew her and all who knew of her. here are a few pics which show off her personal style. All Hail The Queen Of Strange!!! r.i.p. isabella the first gentleman isabella is photgraphed w/ is ultra cool hat designer phillip treacy the second one, wearing the dress.. alexander mcqueen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penny-dreaddfull Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 . fernanda, coco,karen,daniela frietas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penny-dreaddfull Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 coco, guinevere van s. lily c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 here's few of my favourites ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penny-dreaddfull Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Mi Hermano... welcome to Joes house of strange!!!! nice pics!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 mmhmm ^^..especially lovin the one with Stammy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penny-dreaddfull Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 stam takes great extreme fashion shots...joe has devoted huge entire posts just to her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 yep, she's got quite a lot of strange editorials oh, congrats on the 1,000 posts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe > Average Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 Welcome to the roster Hutch , great stuff Great stuff Penny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 ^^ cheers Joe..I quite like to post here..my lurker days are definetly over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penny-dreaddfull Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 yep, she's got quite a lot of strange editorials oh, congrats on the 1,000 posts thanks, hutch!!i dont really care about post count.. i just like the pretty blue cubes under my avatar before the crash.. i was up to 1300... the crash took me back down to 33 the scary ting is that im back to 1000+ and the crash only ahppened bout 2 weeks ago im not an addict,,,, i swear!!!! :woot: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penny-dreaddfull Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 joe we got a new poster... YAY!!! the isabella blow stuff was a bit serious.,.,, but alot of the weirdness we love wouldnt have happened w/out her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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