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Isabella Blow's legendary wardrobe archive full of Alexander McQueen designs and Philip Treacy millinery creations will go under the hammer in September at Christie's in London.
The sale will include over 90 Alexander McQueen outfits, 60 hats from the milliner Philip Treacy, and an assortment of shoes by Manolo Blahnik in addition to pieces by John Galliano. "What we have is unique - it shows that McQueen really deserves his place in fashion history and that Isabella was there before anyone else, she saw what was good so far ahead of the game," said Patricia Frost, director of fashion and textiles at Christie's in London.
After a long struggle with depression and multiple suicide attempts, she took her own life in May 2007. McQueen died by suicide on February 11th, 2010. Blow, an eccentric stylist, is credited with discovering the late designer when she bought his entire Saint Martins College of Art and Design graduate collection for ???5,000, paying it off in weekly ???100 installments.
Her exceptional eye for style in responsible for discovering the milliner Philip Treacy and fashion designer and Hussein Chalayan.
She was also instrumental in the early careers of photographers such as Juergen Teller, Alistair Thain and Sean Ellis, and models such as Sophie Dahl, Stella Tennant and Honor Fraser.
The sale, from the Blow estate on behalf of her family, will be held by the auction house in London on Sept. 15 and will be accompanied by a coffee table tribute book to be published in September by Thames and Hudson.
Blow is also the subject of two more books to be published later this year.
One is being penned by her widower, Delmar Blow, with Tom Sykes, and the other is by the London-based fashion writer Lauren Goldstein Crowe.
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The sale will include over 90 Alexander McQueen outfits, 60 hats from the milliner Philip Treacy, and an assortment of shoes by Manolo Blahnik in addition to pieces by John Galliano. "What we have is unique - it shows that McQueen really deserves his place in fashion history and that Isabella was there before anyone else, she saw what was good so far ahead of the game," said Patricia Frost, director of fashion and textiles at Christie's in London.
After a long struggle with depression and multiple suicide attempts, she took her own life in May 2007. McQueen died by suicide on February 11th, 2010. Blow, an eccentric stylist, is credited with discovering the late designer when she bought his entire Saint Martins College of Art and Design graduate collection for ???5,000, paying it off in weekly ???100 installments.
Her exceptional eye for style in responsible for discovering the milliner Philip Treacy and fashion designer and Hussein Chalayan.
She was also instrumental in the early careers of photographers such as Juergen Teller, Alistair Thain and Sean Ellis, and models such as Sophie Dahl, Stella Tennant and Honor Fraser.
The sale, from the Blow estate on behalf of her family, will be held by the auction house in London on Sept. 15 and will be accompanied by a coffee table tribute book to be published in September by Thames and Hudson.
Blow is also the subject of two more books to be published later this year.
One is being penned by her widower, Delmar Blow, with Tom Sykes, and the other is by the London-based fashion writer Lauren Goldstein Crowe.
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