Blow by Blow by Detmar Blow

Blow by Blow by Detmar Blow

The news of Isabella Blow's suicide in 2007 shocked the international fashion world. A true patron of couture, she is credited with having discovered and fostered the careers of famed designers Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy, among others, becoming their great muse, friend, and confidante. She also discovered models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, yet it was images of Issie in these designers' creations that became instantly iconic. Isabella's aristocratic ancestry was as colorful as her manner of dress, her childhood was adventurous and, at times, tragic, and her thirty-year career in fashion was legendary.

Written with compassion, adoration, and deep insight by Detmar Blow, her devoted husband of eighteen years, in collaboration with writer Tom Sykes. Blow by Blow is, at once, an outrageous behind-the-scenes romp through the worlds of fashion and high society, and a poignantly candid view of the tortured inner life of a rare and conflicted spirit.

Tom Sykes has always been a writer and a motor enthusiast. The Trip combines his developed writing talents with his self-imposed challenge of eventually fixing each of the fifty-nine antique cars he has acquired since he was fifteen years old. Tom's daily credo of Fix or Repair Daily or Walk has resulted in a slew of amusing misadventures. The Trip combines his life experiences, inventiveness, and love of rhymed lines to create a realistic and humorous original work. Tom's first full-length book, The Trip: A Modern Odyssey, is his first full-length book, despite having published newspaper pieces, short tales, and poems.