In 2007 the news of Isabella Blow's suicide made headlines around the world - but there is more to her story than this tragic end. A supporter of milliner Philip Treacy and the woman who discovered designer Alexander McQueen, Blow was a spark, an electrical impulse that set imaginations racing and a unique individual who pushed others to create their best work. This biography of Isabella Blow is the only independent biography of one of fashion's most colourful characters, ranging from her childhood as a young aristocrat to the catwalks of Paris. It will reveal the crises in her personal and professional life that led her to take her own life by drinking weed killer in May 2007. As an independent observer, Goldstein Crowe is able to look without bias on the whole of her life and career.