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Article: MEMO PAD: GRAND SEND-OFF...WHAT'S NEXT.(Isabella Blow's funeral)(Ron Burkle's investment in Primedia's Enthusiast Media division)
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- WWD
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- May 16, 2007
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Byline: Stephanie D. Smith
GRAND SEND-OFF: Isabella Blow's funeral Tuesday in Gloucestershire, England, was as over the top as her style and friends said she would have loved it. The likes of Sophie Dahl, Lucy Ferry and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson paraded in grand style, a mob of paparazzi waited outside and the coffin was topped by one of Blow's favorite hats - a three-masted schooner created by Philip Treacy. Longtime Blow friend and protg Treacy also created the dressing for the coffin, a black velvet cloth covered with flowers, leaves and a carpet of lilies, and built a bust of Blow for inside the church that had another of her favorite hats on it. Others among the ...