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" No one who followed the life and work of the late Isabella Blow would be surprised to learn that there were some unusual hats at last night&amp;#039;s Blow by Blow book party. An antler-bedecked topper, a pink feathered tricorn and a black-and-white geometric wonder were some of the standouts. The fete, held at the Anthropologie store, included a stunning exhibit of some of the influential stylist&amp;#039;s personal photos. Co-authors Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes talked about what they learned when writing the tribute. Blow said he found the process of writing to be &amp;quot;very cathartic. It&amp;#039;s a cathartic tribute.&amp;quot; As for what he learned about his wife&amp;#039;s life that he hadn&amp;#039;t known, &amp;quot;It was darker than I imagined,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;She wore the avant-garde clothes\u2026but it was masking a deep sadness.&amp;quot; Sykes, who met his subject when she included him in an impromptu photo shoot with Mario Testino, said one of the things he discovered was &amp;quot;how much fun she was. I think she got posthumously cast as this sort of tragic figure..she was always just a laugh.&amp;quot; As Detmar Blow put it, &amp;quot;Issie didn&amp;#039;t invent peniciliin.&amp;quot; But she did show us how to have fun with fashion. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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