Isabella 'Issie,' Blow — Red Feathers, Elliott Best Pop Art

A film is being made about Isabella Blow. Of course it is. She was always cinematic — a woman who understood that life, properly lived, should have a visual language. The hats. The entrances. The absolute refusal to be ordinary.

This Elliott Best pop art piece renders her in the Lichtenstein tradition: bold outlines, flat colour, the graphic confidence of the comic strip elevated to fine art. Against a blazing yellow ground, wisps of red feathers drift across her face — a nod to the extraordinary millinery of Philip Treacy, her great collaborator and discovery, the feathers that were as much her signature as anything she ever said or wore.

It is glamorous, graphic, and unmistakably her. A portrait for the moment she is about to have again.