39adamstrand:On 6 May 2007, former magazine editor and style-maker Isabella Blow announced to her we

39adamstrand:

On 6 May 2007, former magazine editor and style-maker Isabella Blow announced to her weekend guests that she was going shopping. She was later discovered by her sister on the floor of the bathroom. She had ingested weedkiller. According to her sister, Blow said, “I’m worried that I haven’t taken enough.” She was rushed to the hospital and died the next day.

According to her husband, Detmar, the 48-year-old Blow had attempted suicide 7 times in the previous 14 months, including an overdose with sleeping pills and jumping from an elevated roadway in London (which resulted in 2 broken ankles).  Detmar’s father had committed suicide also by drinking weedkiller 30 years earlier.

Isabella Blow had discovered designer Alexander McQueen, and had helped negotiate his deal with Gucci, and was reportedly depressed that McQueen had left her behind. “Everybody else got contracts, and she got a free dress,” a friend said.

Married since 1988, Isabella and her husband separated in 2004 after he began having an affair. The couple reconciled after Isabella was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. According to her husband, Blow was diagnosed with mental illness and told him, “I’m fighting depression and I can’t beat it.”

In 2010, Alexander McQueen also killed himself.