ISABELLA BLOW’S LAST WILL & TESTAMENT
Meeting Isabella Blow changed my life.
Hardly a day goes by and I don’t think of her.
In pondering a suitable epilogue for this publication
I immediately thought back to a long train journey
I shared with her back in 1999. Out of boredom we
decided to write her last will and testament. Such
existential past times were quite the norm with
Isabella.
Isabella Blow had no interest in assigning her material
possessions in the event of her death. But rather, she
expressed a visceral list of demands which she expressly
asked me to oversee in the event of her departure.
‘Firstly!’ She commanded, ‘I would like my head
decapitated from body, and buried on the estate of my
father. I would like it cut off, as he cut me out of his
will. ‘ She paused….’Secondly!’ ‘I would like my heart
cut out, and buried with Detmar at Hilles.’……Another
pause. ‘And quite where I am going to bury my cunt, I
haven’t decided yet.’
Isabella Blow was a classic, an individualist, and a genius
and no one will make me laugh, in the way that she could
ever again.
Stuart Shave
NR
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