Nick Knight's Isabella Blow tribute As a prelude to the Isabella Blow exhibition launching at Somerset House next week, we preview Nick Knight's breathtakingly beautiful images of the Isabella Blow collection, shot for V magazine at Doddington Hall, the late fashion doyenne's ancestral home The eagerly anticipated Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! premieres at London's Somerset House next week. The exhibition celebrates the life and wardrobe of the late fashion editor and patron and showcases over one hundred pieces from her private collection now owned by another fashion eccentric, Daphne Guinness. READ: Daphne Guinness gets pelted with water in Nick Knight film Running alongside the exhibition, is a catalogue published by Rizzoli, featuring new commissioned photography of the Isabella Blow collection as shot by Nick Knight and styled by Chanel muse, Amanda Harlech - shown here with thanks to V Magazine which has published an exclusive preview. Liberty wears: Skirt - Alexander McQueen S/S 1997 Knight and Harlech were two of Blow's closest friends and they created the catalogue's poignant and ethereal images showcasing key pieces from Blow's collection, at the style maven's ancestral home, Doddington Hall in Cheshire as worn by models Alexia Wright, Anais Mali and Liberty Ross. READ: Alex McQueen and Isabella Blow "What Isabella represented is that differences should be celebrated, and these images, which were taken at Doddington Hall, her ancestral home, are meant to represent that," says Knight. They are intended to make you think. Although she ended her life, her major message was that life is full of splendid things. Her overall message about life was very positive. Anais wears: Coat - Alexande McQueen F/W 1999, Lingerie - Rigby & Peller, Hat - Philip Treacy, Shoes - Manolo Blahnik Born into the aristocracy, Blow began her 30 year career in the Eighties as Anna Wintour's assistant at US Vogue followed by stints at Tatler, British Vogue and the Sunday Times Style. She is credited with discovering and launching the careers of designers Philip Treacy, Hussein Chalayan, Julian Macdonald, and, of course, Alexander McQueen, whose graduate collection she snapped up straight after his debut fashion show. READ: Blow show: the fashion style that inspired a generation Alexis wears: Dress - Alexander McQueen F/W 1996 Curated by Alistair O'Neill and Shonagh Marshall, and designed by Carmody Groarke with installations by set designer Shona Heath, the exhibition is divided thematically into sections charting Blow's background, her relationship with Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy, the inspiration she found in the English countryside, her wardrobe, her work and, of course, her legacy - La Dame Bleue, the S/S 2008 collection on which McQueen and Treacy collaborated and dedicated to Blow after her death. READ: Isabella Blow's custom-made McQueen dress, yours for £35,000 "I miss her," sighs Harlech, of her friend. I miss her courage, her passion for fashion's voice, her navigation of cloth, of a seam, like a battle or a victory. Alexia wears: Dress - Alexander Mcqueen F/W 1996 Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! Opens at Somerset House 20 November. www.somerset house.org.uk