“It’s a trip!” says @PhilipTreacy1 of the @SomersetHouse’s “Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!” exhibit. #LondonCalling http://t.co/u2FrWOQHo4
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) November 19, 2013
Yes, Philip Treacy, the most famous house for producing artistic hats, together with Alexander McQueen are doing a tribute to late Isabella Blow. The exhibition is called Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!, held at Somerset House in London. It's held from November 20, 2013 until March 4, 2014.They're also working together with The Isabella Blow Foundation and Central Saint Martins.
At first I wondered about what kind of exhibition it is. Then finally I was (or you were) right: it's hats everywhere. I thought that Alexander McQueen would participate into this tribute because she was, you know, Lee's muse. But after all, the designer himself already gone. Like every tribute, every single thing that is exhibited looks deep, sad, but brings the spirit of their late owner.
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| Image from Somerset House |
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| Image from Somerset House |
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| A famous head piece that was on the coffin of Isabella Blow. |
In my life, Isabella is one of my inspirations. I tell you why. People that don't know much about fashion mock her, saying that she's just a weird person wearing weird head piece. But for me, she's much more than that. I've watched a lot of her interviews and I believe, she's one of the bravest women ever. When she was young, she worked at Vogue as Anna Wintour's assistant. As a person that had a job in Vogue, it's really cool. But then she found out that her love in fashion was more than that. Then she discovered Lee McQueen and Philip Treacy. From that moment she became an icon, wearing hats that Philip made, and being Lee's muse. Her turning point from some fashion journalist to a muse amazes me. She was brave to follow her passion and from her interviews, I know that she's just being herself. Wearing artistic things on her head and her body, walking so confidently like she wore nothing, smoking while being interviewed.. It's just mind-blowing. Years after she passed away, people still consider her as one of the biggest influential icon in fashion industry. Many artists are inspired by her, including Lady Gaga.
"Gaga and Isabella Blow look physically quite the same," said photographer Nick Knight, "so in many ways, she would be a good person to do that. …There is a lot of the spirit of Isabella Blow in what Gaga has done," he said, citing the Mother Monster's "exuberance, and love of the extreme, and that sort of quite extreme vision of a woman is something that Gaga has picked up on."
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| A preview of Nick Knight's work for the tribute |
Daphne Guinness said, “This exhibition is, to me, a bittersweet event. Isabella Blow made our world more vivid, trailing color with every pace she took. It is a sorrier place for her absence. When I visited her beloved clothes in a storage room in South Kensington, it seemed quite clear the collection would be of immense value to a great many people. I do believe that in choosing to exhibit them we’ve done the right thing – and that it is what she would have wanted. I am doing this in memory of a dear friend, in the hope that her legacy may continue to aid and inspire generations of designers to come”.
She's just... an icon. Rest in peace, miss Isabella Blow.
Watch SHOWstudio's fashion film: tribute to Isabella Blow here. (YouTube)
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