1958 Isabella Delves-Broughton born in London into a family of major General sir Evelyn Delves-Broughton, twelfth baronet of the Broughton, and his second wife Helen Mary shore. Childhood eldest daughter of an aristocratic dynasty holds the estate Doddington, Cheshire, generic socket Bratanov from the 14th century. The family huddled in a small cottage, which according to Isabella, suitable two epithet pink and horrible. Crown castle, which is seen from the window long ago sold for gambling debts grandfather Jock Delves-Broughton and turned into a school for girls. Grandfather brought the family into bankruptcy, was accused of murder and suicide, poisoned. Perhaps the most important experience of childhood Isabella calls the fitting pink mother's hats in front of the mirror. And favorite character of her stories - grandmother, lady Faith Delves-Broughton that his granddaughter was referred to as the "cannibal". A well-known photographer and traveler once dined in Papua New Guinea roast meat, and learning that it was a human, asked supplements.
1962 Four years Izzy witnesses the death of his younger brother. He is drowning in the pool while the father mixes a cocktail, and mother paints her lips - "maybe it has something to do with my obsession with lipstick". Parents, first and foremost, the mother, unable to endure the loss, lose interest in the senior girls.
1972 When Isabella celebrates 14 years of age, Helen Mary shore leave home, shrugging good-bye to his daughters hand. The father married again, and the stepmother makes it clear daughter that it was time to start an independent life. Isabella moved to London, where initially takes on the most extravagant to the honourable work - sells cookies and cleans floors.
1979 Stage trials worthy of Cinderella, finally, concludes. Isabella is serving in new York to study at Columbia University the art of Ancient China. Her roommate - Catherine Oxenberg, famous for his role in the TV series "Dynasty". Extravagant guest from the Old world is rapidly becoming the darling of the new York Bohemia. Isabella is friends with Andy Warham, at the first meeting, which came in different shoes Manolo Blahnik, unrequited love for Jean-Michel Basquiat, works of guy Laroche.
1980 Bryan ferry persuades Isabella to go to an interview to the new creative Director of Vogue, Anna Wintour, who was looking for an assistant. On their first meeting talk: on the table Wintour was a biography of the English writer Vita, Shaquil West. Seeing the book, Isabella admitted that he read it three times and cried every time. What Wintour replied coldly: "Izzy. Cry absolutely nothing". However, they quickly find a common language. According to Wintour, she liked the unpredictability assistant: one day she dressed like a Maharaja, another was turned into a punk diva, and then turned into a Prim Secretary. She continued the great English tradition of eccentrics".
1986 Returning to London after several years of work in Vogue, Isabella arranged in Tatler assistant Director of fashion. Two years later, at the wedding in Salisbury Cathedral, she meets a young art dealer Dietmar blow. A hat with an ostrich feather on it - pink coat grandfather, who served as Ambassador to Sri Lanka. Love the hats and coats" (in the words of Izzy) flashes at a glance.
1989 The play wedding in Gloucester Cathedral. Isabella goes down the aisle in a gown of purple velvet with embroidery in the form of necklaces and incredible hat that looked more like a medieval helmet. Headdress composes anyone then unknown wizard hat Philip Tracy, a student of the Royal College of art. Still not back from their honeymoon, Isabella invites Tracy to stay at her home and make hats. He willingly accepts the invitation, and soon learns about it all the light.
1993 Formally Isabella takes the posts of editor of Tatler, Vogue, the Sunday Times and advises Du Pont, Lacoste and Swarovski. While she calls herself a "pig finds truffles". She has an exceptional flair for new names. Next Tracy is Alexander McQueen, who Isabela finds on display graduates of the College of St. Martin - and then offers to buy the entire collection. McQueen sold it for 5000 pounds - the same amount of 6 million inheritance that year he left for his elder daughter of the late Evelyn Delves-Broughton. It is Isabella shows on the catwalks of Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl. The last she literally picked up on the street - all in tears after a quarrel with his mother. "We all thought Dahl - just a fat teenager" - surprised later writer plum Sykes, a close friend of the blow.
2002 In the fashion industry Isabella blow is highly regarded, and her incredible outfits go rave rumors. Philip Tracy held a major exhibition of hats made for Isabella. The exhibition is a huge success. For the opening of the book was released When Philip met Isabella with photos of the most striking outfits Muse of the designer. The blow, whose hats have become a legend, saying that goes to Tracy instead therapist: "when I feel bad, I go to Philip, close the face, and I feel just fine". Blow convinced in his own ugliness and says similar to "portrait of Plantagenet". It looks, indeed, far from the standard model, but it and its images visible fantastic organic, alien only deliberate and far-fetched.
Tom Ford on the advice of the stylist takes the line of Alexander McQueen, while she blow suffer from persistent difficulties with money. According to the observation of friends, she refers to him as a child spends all that was on clothes and luxury items. She could open their Agency and make a fortune - in fact, she was working for the Agency, which was not paid.
2004 Great pain Isabella causes no children. Trying to get pregnant does not end there, and later she is diagnosed with cancer. "We Demerom like two exotic fruit that does not bear fruit, if they are to cross". Instead of children, she gets a black pug, Alfi. The situation is aggravated by the intervention of the mother-in-law, which lays claim to the estate of the hills, where the couple lives a reflection of the situation with her stepmother deprived of his ancestral castle. After passing and fleeting romances, Isabella attempts suicide. She survives after jumping from a bridge Hammersmith, but the shattered ankle permanently deprive her of the opportunity to walk in heels. In the end, the couple reunited in the hills, but depression does not leave her until the last days of life.
2007 Another suicide attempt. on may 6, during a house party she tells the guests that go to the shop. It is found in a few hours: blow kills himself with a herbicide, which took the life of her father. She dies the next day in the hospital. "I think she was there in a gown of silver brocade 30-ies. Even if it is presented to the border authorities, the words of her friend, the editor of Vogue hachamisha Bowles. - The way you look, the most important thing. Even in this situation".
Funeral Isabella blow took place in Gloucester Cathedral, where she walked down the aisle in a hat Tracy. The coffin instead of a wreath adorned one of her hats. "I turned around, " said plum Sykes. - All around were exactly as Izzy". All the color in the fashion world came on the heels, with bright red lipstick.
Author:
Napreenko And.
Source:
Vogue
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