Isabella Blow — English Editor born on November 19, 1958, died on May 07, 2007

Isabella "Issie" Blow was an English magazine editor. The muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as the fashion designer Alexander McQueen... (wikipedia)

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.
Fashion is a vampiric thing; it's the Hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much.'
I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.
I want to be kissed by the people I love.
I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.