The mad hatress with the blood-red lips, great name, and even greater fashion sense died yesterday of ovarian cancer at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in western England. Isabella Blow was 48. During her employ as Anna Wintour’s assistant at Vogue (“I don’t think she ever did my expenses, but she made life much more interesting,” said Wintour yesterday) and at London’s Sunday Times, British Vogue, and Tatler, Blow discovered models Sophie Dahl and Stella Tennant and launched the careers of designer Alexander McQueen and milliner Philip Treacy, whose hats she was near-infamous for sporting at every event. “She was in the office just last week, bursting with ideas,” Tatler editor Geordie Greig said. “They sounded impossible, but you always knew with Isabella it would work and be marvelous. She was bored by clichés. She didn’t do ordinary or dull.” Sadly, though, she had recently been suffering from depression. “If I am feeling really low,” she told the Guardian in 2002, “I go and see Philip [Treacy], cover my face, and feel fantastic.” (Source)