Daphne Guinness on Isabella Blow

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“Her effect was like an umbrella opening in a phone booth,” wrote the New York Times’ Cathy Horyn of the highly influential aristocrat and stylist, Isabella Blow who tragically took her own life in 2007; “But the perfect umbrella in finest silk.” A decade before bloggers would compete with editors to turn fashion week into a media circus, Blow was an effortlessly commanding presence on the front row: perhaps in a fan...