'(8 May 2007) FASHION STYLIST AND ICON, ISABELLA BLOW DIES AGED 48. Stylist and fashion guru Isabella Blow, a vibrant and often outrageous presence on the British fashion scene, has died. She was 48. Her husband, Detmar Blow said she died in the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in western England. News reports said she had recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Isabella will remembered for a cool, funny and sometimes outrageous personality. \"India is like a Garden of Eden, a garden of light, a garden of sensual pleasures and seduction so everyone should be seduced.\" She said at at fashion show in New Dehli last autumn. \"The Sari is seductive, it\'s the most beautiful piece of fashion that\'s ever been. I understand it takes a long time to make love in a Sari.\" Renowned for her larger-than-life hats and blood-red lipstick, Blow helped launch the careers of models including Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl and was credited with discovering designer Alexander McQueen, milliner Philip Treacy and John Galliano. Most recently, Blow was an editor-at-large for Tatler magazine. \"She was in the office just last week, bursting with ideas. They sounded impossible, but you always knew with Isabella it would work and be marvellous,\" Tatler editor Geordie Greig told The Daily Telegraph. \"She was bored by cliches. She didn\'t do ordinary or dull.\" And neither, famously did she take advantage of her iconic status in the fashion industry. \"I knew John when he was selling his clothes for $10 in baskets,\" she said at a Paris show in October 2003. \"I just asked if I could have this coat with steel and they said you looked after us when we were poor so what\'s a coat to us. Isn\'t that sweet of them? And it means so much to me so I got this coat today. Because I never get freebies, I always pay for my clothes. This one I couldn\'t afford and I got it... I\'m so excited.\" Born Isabella Delves Broughton in London in 1958, Blow moved to New York in 1979 to study ancient Chinese Art at Columbia University. She soon dropped out and moved to west Texas to work for Guy Laroche. In 1981, she met Anna Wintour, then fashion director of U.S. Vogue, and was hired as her assistant. \"I don\'t think she ever did my expenses, but she made life much more interesting,\" Wintour told The Times newspaper on Monday. Blow later returned to London, where she worked for Tatler, the Sunday Times newspaper and British Vogue. She met Detmar, an art dealer, at a wedding in 1987. They became engaged just 16 days later and married the following year. Blow asked Philip Treacy to design her bridal headdress, and a fashion collaboration was born. She would serve as muse for a host of Treacy headgear, including \"The Ship\" - a replica 18th century clipper in full rigging. Another creation, the \"Gilbert & George\" - a mass of pink and green lacquered ostrich feathers stuck into a mortar board - was so wide that Blow was unable to navigate the door of the charity event for which she had ordered it. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/cd3330b407320906fd04c8d230fecef1'
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