Ahead of the opening of a new exhibition dedicated to the impressive wardrobe of Isabella Blow next week, the late fashion editor good friend, milliner Philip Treacy, says that the display is long overdue.
"She was never feted while she was alive," Treacy said. "She gave so much and worked so hard. She supported the careers of many young people who didn't stand a chance without her, yet she never won a single award. It's all very well them feting her now and going on about how wonderful and brilliant she was. There will be people at that exhibition who laughed at her when she was alive. They're hypocrites and they make my blood boil!"
Although he declined to name any of Blow's critics, he described how "they mocked her. It was cruel." Treacy believes that more could have been done while she was alive to applaud her contributions to the industry.
"She thought she no longer mattered," he told The Telegraph. "For all her flamboyance and humour and warmth, Isabella actually suffered from low self-esteem. Very few people got to see that. She also had this thing about getting old. She hated it. Before she died, she told me that she felt as if she had been somehow left behind in the fashion world."
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