A new film about McQueen's muse Played by an Oscar-nominated actress
McQueen and Blow for Vanity Fair, shot by David LaChapelle
17 years after the disappearance of Isabella Blow, editor, muse, and patroness of fashion, cinema is ready to dedicate a star-studded biopic to her, directed by English filmmaker Alex Marx. Blow's career has been nothing short of exceptional: she worked alongside Philip Treacy, Steven Meisel, and André Leon Talley, launched Stella Tennant, Sophie Dahl, and long supported the projects of Lee Alexander McQueen. In The Queen of Fashion, extraordinary looks and the most touching moments of Blow's life will come to life, portrayed by British actress Andrea Riseborough, Oscar-nominated in 2022 for To Leslie. According to Deadline, alongside her, we'll find Emilia Clarke as Daphne Guinness, a close friend of the editor, along with emerging talent Fionn O’Shea playing the role of designer Treacy, creator of the remarkable hat collection Blow used to wear. The cast is expected to be rounded out by Richard E. Grant, portraying the protagonist's father, and Hayley Atwell as former British Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Schulman.
McQueen and Blow for Vanity Fair, shot by David LaChapelle
During her flourishing career in the fashion world, Blow also worked as an actress, with a small role in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) by Wes Anderson and, of course, in the documentary McQueen and I, in 2011. In the summer of 2016, the production of The Ripper was announced, a film that would have traced the tumultuous relationship between the designer and the editor, but there have been no updates, while last November director Oliver Hermanus expressed readiness to work on a biopic about McQueen. Over a decade after the disappearance of both creatives, their work continues to attract the attention of screenwriters, perhaps seduced by the same dramatic episodes that led them to take such extreme actions.
