Isabella Blow's father left her £5,000, and after her death her estate put her McQueen wardrobe up for auction

Isabella Blow was born a Delves Broughton. Her grandfather, Sir Jock Delves Broughton, sold most of the family's estate, held for about 600 years, to pay gambling debts. He moved to Kenya, was acquitted of murdering Lord Erroll, and died by overdose in Liverpool in 1942. Her father, Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, died in 1993. He left £5,000 to each of his three daughters and several million to his third wife, Rona. Isabella worked at American Vogue, British Vogue, the Sunday Times and Tatler. She bought Alexander McQueen's entire St Martin's degree collection for £5,000 and championed the milliner Philip Treacy. In May 2007, aged 48, she died after taking paraquat weedkiller at Hilles, her Gloucestershire home. Her estate, under the guardianship of her sisters, consigned her wardrobe to Christie's for a September 2010 sale in London to settle the estate. It held about 90 McQueen outfits, dresses by John Galliano and more than 50 Treacy hats. On 14 June 2010 the auction was called off. Daphne Guinness had bought the whole collection privately, for an undisclosed sum, so that it would not be scattered. She said she wanted it kept together as a monument people could see.