Isabella Blow dies

Very sorry to read about the death of Isabella Blow yesterday in hospital - an "inspirational fashion journalist whose flair launched styles and careers" - indeed a quite an extraordinary woman who I had the pleasure of meeting briefly a couple of times. She lived just outside my ward and was the celebrity who helped open the first Stroud Farmers Market. See photos here and her obituary here.

One of the stories quoted about her comes from her then boss, Nicholas Coleridge, MD of Condé Nast. She turned up for dinner sporting a pair of McQueen-veiled antlers. "How are you going to have dinner in that hat?" Coleridge asked, quite reasonably. "Nicholas," she replied, with characteristic imperiousness, "that is of no concern to me whatsoever."