English fashion editor Isabella Blow was BOTD in 1958. Born Isabella Broughton in London to an aristocratic family, she had a turbulent childhood, marked by the death of her younger brother and her parents’ acrimonious divorce. After working as a cleaner and shop assistant, she moved to New York City to study art, later working for designer Guy Laroche. In 1981, she began working at American Vogue, initially as assistant to editor Anna Wintour, but quickly promoted to editor-at-large. She returned to London in 1986, working for fashion director Michael Roberts, and married her second husband Detmar Blow. An early champion and patron of Irish milliner Philip Treacy, she moved him into her flat, commissioning him to design her wedding headdress and helping popularise his work. She is also credited with discovering fashion designer Alexander McQueen, purchasing his entire graduate collection and becoming his muse and frequent collaborator. In 1996, she helped broker McQueen’s appointment as creative director of Givenchy and the subsequent purchase of his fashion label by Gucci. McQueen’s failure to provide Blow with a position at Givenchy was widely criticised within the fashion industry, though Blow continued to support him publicly. She suffered from mental illness throughout her life, compounded by being disinherited by her father, her struggles with infertility and cancer (and, probably, McQueen’s betrayal). After a series of suicide attempts, leaving her unable to walk, she successfully committed suicide in 2007, aged 48. Though Blow’s romantic relationships were with men, her life and work evinced a very British type of queerness that earns her Honorary SuperGay status. She will be portrayed by Andrea Riseborough in a forthcoming biopic, focusing on her relationship with McQueen.