This fashion stylist and muse was born into the rarified English aristocracy, which could account for her peculiarity? A talent spotter who collected protégés from both ends of the social class ladder, she discovered Alexander McQueen, the son of an East End London cabbie as well as several blue-blooded debutante types such as Stella Tennant, Iris Palmer and most famously Sophie Dahl (whom she described as "a blow-up doll with brains"), who thanks to dizzy ‘Izzy' became successful models. Her trademark five-inch heels, blood red lipstick and quirky hats (which also put Irish milliner Philip Treacy on the fashion radar), made it hip to dress up in the dress-down Blair decade. A fabulous front row fixture at fashion shows wearing full-on evening couture at 9am, she was famous for nutty aunt outbursts and making the fashion industry a fun place to work in. A fashion editor at Vogue, The Sunday Times and Tatler, she sadly took her own life by drinking deadly weedkiller, paraquat, in May 2007.