Fashion death cause doesn't fit

How sad!

Fashion lost an eccentric icon yesterday with the death of Isabella Blow, a British stylist, editor and former assistant of Vogue's Anna Wintour and Andre Leon Talley.

But friends familiar with her suicidal tendencies - especially in recent weeks - are questioning the official cause of death, given as cancer.

One magazine source tells me: "She tried to kill herself again last week and drank bleach, then on another occasion tried to jump out of [her husband] Detmar 's car."

Self-administered poison was the leading theory among New York fashionistas yesterday, gathering for the annual Met Costume Institute's Benefit Gala.

Wintour said that Blow, 48, "was a true British original, and [her death] is a great loss to fashion and to us all." Blow's outlandish personal style was lionized by designers including Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and made the career of hatmaker Philip Treacy.

In 2005, she tried to kill herself by jumping off a London bridge. After breaking her feet and no longer being able to wear any of her 280 pairs of spiked heels, she was inundated by gifts of flat shoes from designers including Manolo Blahnik and Christian Laboutin.

Fellow style icon Victoria Beckham, on hearing of the 2005 suicide attempt, famously declared: "What genius!"

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Re: Fashion death cause doesn't fit

Re: Fashion death cause doesn't fit

So sad