'Regardless of how she might like to be portrayed, there is no doubt that Selina Blow is grand, and that her manner is, indeed, endearingly eccentric. She refers to the cottage as her "private kingdom" and her retreat from the frightening business of fashion. In London, during the week, Selina Bow plays the successful designer about town, nipping and tucking and flattering the likes of Stella Tennant, Lucy Ferry and Lady Menuhin in her smart Belgravia Salon. Tender years and a lack of training haven't stopped her gaining a rapid reputation in the fashion world- although it is a reputation that has been built as much on her personality as on her trademark Nehru and pirate jackets in jewel-bright Silks and velvet. Selina Blow, it has to be said, does come from a long line of eccentrics. Her grandfather, Detmar Blow, was an architect who built Hilles, the large Arts and Craft house in which she grew up. Her mother, a Sri Lankan beauty names Helga Elena Brunhilda De Silva, who was described by a gossip columnist as an exotic orchid among the British Buttercups".
