BLOW AT TATLER

ISABELLA BLOW has taken over as the fashion director of Tatler. The eccentric style icon, who has worked on the fashion pages of Vogue and the Sunday Times in the past and was style editor at Tatler in the late Eighties, has already been spotted in The Hatch, the famous Condé Cast cafeteria on the third floor of Vogue House, queuing up for lunch in a trademark feathered hat, cleavage-enhancing corset and with a generous lick of red lipstick. This week Blow jetted off to Paris, with the rest of the fashion pack, to watch the shows in preparation for her first fashion pages for the society bible's February issue. "Isabella is a truly global talent who will bring Tatler's fashion to a new level," says the magazine's editor, Geordie Greig. "She has an extraordinary and imaginative talent and she is a genius for knowing trends ahead of the curve. She'll make Tatler fashion unmissable for anyone interested in clothes." So does her appointment herald a new era for the world's oldest surviving magazine? "It's raising our game certainly," he goes on. "But Isabella has been doing mainstream fashion for the Sunday Times for the last five years, so it is not as if the magazine is changing its remit. We will just now have the extra advantage of someone so brilliant."