The Life of the Characters in Isabella Blow's Works

From 65438 to 0979, she moved to new york and entered Columbia University to study China classical art. She was probably the first and only person in the professional fashion circle to read this.

Blow dropped out of school a year later and moved to West Texas to follow Guy La Roche-her exciting fashion career began. A year later, Brian and Lucy Ferry introduced me to anna wintour, who was then the fashion director of Vogue. They hit it off because of the works of the same excellent writer Vita Sackville West. Blow was hired as Wintour's assistant. Later, thanks to the guidance of AndréLeon Talley, a famous black fashion editor, he was on his way in this circle.

From 65438 to 0986, anna wintour returned to her hometown of London and became the editor-in-chief of the English edition of Vogue. At the same time, Isabella Blow returned to her hometown and became the assistant of tytler magazine in London and the fashion director of the Sunday Times, Michael roberts. The latter is now the fashion director of the influential magazine Vanity Fair. Appreciated by Roberts, Blow soon became Tatler's image editor.

1988, Blow met Detmar Blow at a wedding, and they got engaged 16 days later.

1989, Blow met philip treacy's work in an accidental place: a green crocodile tooth hat. At that time, he had not graduated from RCA Royal College of Art in London.

Then she asked him to design a headdress for her wedding that year: a golden lace crown.

"When Philip Met Isabella" exhibition-this is the last thing she was busy with before her death.

Philip treacy is the greatest achievement in her life.

1990, Philip Treasure, who just graduated from RCA, has no money to do anything, including renting a house. Blow rented his mother-in-law's basement in Berger levia, an upper-class residential area in London, as Philip's studio and dormitory.

Three years later, it was alexander mcqueen. At that time, he had just graduated from Central Saint Martin Art College, and she bought all his graduation design works at a high price of 5,000 pounds, and paid in installments of 100 pounds per week. Then he also started his extraordinary design career from that basement.

McQueen's acquaintance with Isabella Blow is more like a legend of ups and downs. Blow had an eye for McQueen's graduation exhibition on 1994. He saw the amazing talent in McQueen's works through the heavy oil paint and blood stains on the model's face. Afterwards, she bought all McQueen's designs for ￡ 5,000-even though St Martin's tuition was only ￡ 4,000. Later, Blow invited McQueen to move into her house. At that time, the unknown philip treacy and Hussein Chalayan were taken in, and Ma Nuoluo Branik, a shoe designer, was also a frequent visitor here and cooked dinner for them. She calls herself a "pig sniffing truffles in the forest"-her favorite thing in life is collecting geniuses. Blow also found supermodels stella tennant, sophie dahl and photographer Juergen Taylor.

In the eyes of the world, McQueen and Blow seem to come from two different worlds-McQueen is a character written by Dickens, who grew up on the streets of East London with straightforward and rebellious words and disdain for fashion stereotypes. He seems rude, but in fact he is very shrewd: behind the exaggerated and shocking Tianqiao show, haute couture, ready-made clothes and accessories go hand in hand; Even the image of "bad boy" is more or less self-created. He knows that he is a civilian legend that the media is crazy about. Isabella Blow, on the other hand, is the heroine in evelyn waugh's novels: she comes from a prominent declining aristocrat, loves the ultimate beauty, demands the ultimate in everything, but is hopelessly self-destructive. She uses fashion to create "magic, pleasure and miracle", but she doesn't know how to exchange fashion for money-for money, she is like a naive child. Once she has money, she spends a lot of money in exchange for expensive clothes, antiques, black orchids and everything that fascinates her.

However, their similarities go far beyond the scope of fashion. Blow and McQueen are both outdated romantics who live for love. It's like watching water, they feel the same for each other's unknown fragility, gloom and pain. Although they became attached to fashion, McQueen soon realized that he valued her love more than Blow's design opinions. Their writing is humorous and their hearts are extremely sensitive. They are full of wildness and strong vitality, and cannot tolerate even a trace of mediocrity and hypocrisy. Blow's family motto is "Don't make public, you can't do anything". She has always claimed that she found McQueen's Bole and mentor, and McQueen is eager for freedom and self-reliance while her wings are growing and grateful. This makes them drift away. It is said that when Blow switched to Gucci for McQueen, he didn't give her a position, and he was always depressed. In her later years, she was worried that she would eventually live on the streets because she could not make ends meet, and she was often depressed and desperate.

Blow made a special trip to Essex to visit McQueen's mother before committing suicide, leaving many souvenirs for her. I also made an appointment with McQueen to meet at Hills Manor, which was her farewell. At that time, she was as cool as a cucumber, and McQueen thought she had passed the difficult time. Blow's sudden death left a huge hole in McQueen's heart: she was his best friend, accomplice and source of inspiration. McQueen dressed her in a traditional Scottish dress at the funeral. He couldn't help crying and left quickly without saying a word. When she was buried, she wore his designs: red embroidered with gold thread and feathers, a handmade brocade dress skirt, a white rose and a black sailboat-shaped hat on the coffin, which was designed for her by her favorite philip treacy. In the same year 10, McQueen devoted himself to Blow in the name of "La Dame Bleue". On the invitation, she wore a pink McQueen skirt and a headdress designed by philip treacy, and flew into the clouds in a four-horse carriage. At the end of the overpass is the neon ornament of the giant bird's wings, and all the models are the embodiment of Blow: her signature red lips, philip treacy's imaginative hat ornament, McQueen's design and Ma Nuoluo's slim high heels. This is the best Isabella Blue and the best McQueen.

Her favorite thing in life is genius. So whenever they are in trouble, she reaches out her hand faster than them. In 2000, alexander mcqueen is about to hand over his handsome seal. When he suddenly left Givenchy, she made great efforts to win him over and actively promoted him to sign a contract with Gucci Group, which enabled him to regain brand-new opportunities and space and concentrate on building his own personal brand.

She created more than this: Hussein Chalayan, another Belgian fashion wizard, is also famous for his sharp eyes. In addition to designers, stella tennant, Honor Fraser and sophie dahl can all become supermodels today, and Blow contributed a lot.

I met sophie dahl, a plump woman, who was highly praised and recommended by tom ford. Soon, Yves Saint Laurent, who is in charge of Mirror, made a hard advertisement for the new season perfume opium: sophie dahl was naked except for the gold necklace, bracelet and high heels on the dark blue velvet background, but it was amazing and beautiful, just as Saint Laurent himself said: opium is a taboo and should be banned, but it is often addictive. Opium Opium perfume is a classic, and sophie dahl has become the new sexy queen of Britain.

Some people say: Blow's death is partly due to illness and partly due to loss-in other words, the illness of the body originated from the heart. In recent years, her influence in the fashion world has not reached its peak. She saw the people she supported flying high, but she was like a bird with broken wings, a hat goddess in extreme clothes, and could not stand the stagnation and mediocrity of life. Seeing fashion as her life, she was lost and could not escape.

She has made it her duty to shock the world all her life. She won't leave the house without wearing a pair of flat shoes, and there isn't a pair of jeans in the closet ... Someone once asked her if she had one or two "uniforms". She replied blankly, as if she was wearing a white fluffy windbreaker when watching soap operas.

She once broke her ankle in a car accident. Despite her injuries, she only had time to worry: Will she never be able to wear Ma Nuoluo Lanik again?

She still holds a record: during Fashion Week, she changed seven clothes a day-just because she had to attend seven shows.

Even in daily life, she has never given up the principle of "clothes don't kill you": exaggerated hats, headdresses that mop the floor three feet, Greek statues, Joan of Arc, and the shape of Indian princes-calmly entering and leaving the office, only others are uneasy.

In the year before her death, Rosa, a high fashion house, was taken by P & amp； G "turn it off". Isabella Blow burst into tears during Olivier Teskens' curtain call performance. During this year, several Haute Couture Haute Couture brands such as Paco Rabanne, Emanuel Ungaro and Christian LaCroix changed one after another, which made Isabella Blow feel sad from the heart. When interviewed by a reporter, she choked and almost fainted.

"This utilitarian society is destroying beauty. Many feathers, embroidery, lace and the pursuit of beauty by Parisian women are gone now. Today is not only Rosa's swan song, but also the swan song of high fashion! "

Many people regret Isabella Blow's death and prove that she didn't commit suicide according to the fact that she was still preparing a fashion album a few days before her death.

In fact, she just had an operation two weeks ago, and she was in good health after the operation, otherwise the doctor would not allow her to go back to her residence in the country to rest.

She has a castle, inherited from this strange family, located in Cheshire, England. It was built in14th century and named Dodington.

Even though she was ruined, she didn't live up to this ancient family. Her gorgeous, persistent, rich and almost crazy heart belonged to thousands of years ago, not today. It belongs to that ancient castle, not to the world where she left countless figures, but to a pale piece of paper.