Isabel Toledo, who died from breast cancer in August 2019, was remembered at a memorial in Manhattan. The evening concluded with a letter to Isabel from her husband the artist Ruben Toledo, which is printed here in its entirety.
Last night, friends and family gathered at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan to celebrate the life and career of designer. Toledo’s death from breast cancer on August 26 came as a shock to the international fashion community who regarded her as a legendary figure for her sense of craft and aesthetic rigor, and her possession of that rare magic that elevates a designer from mere trendsetter to something more timeless.
We always trusted each others’ moves and rhythms. How should I interpret your sudden turn and departure? Should I try to keep the same rhythm going—keep the beat best as I can? Or should I fall into the offbeat unpredictable soulful conga drums that you love so much with their own ancient and solid vibrations?I will listen to whatever new beat you wish me to follow as long as it leads me to you.
Were you a dream? If you hadn’t left so many of your sensitive genius patterns behind—such a fertile and creative landscape you carefully constructed—I might think you were only something my imagination invented. Because of your lightness and ethereal nature and fearlessness with life, your wide open heart allows everyone and everything in. That’s what makes me so protective of you. This is your mystery. You are soft as a cloud and solid as stone.
Thank you for allowing me to enjoy the many versions of you. My Izzy: the fun loving prankster and practical joker—practical because you always were and joker because you loved to laugh. My Izzy: so organized, clear, strong, courageous; so great at making do and so great at making everything you do look easy and elegantly effortless—making genius out of nothing. My Isabel: with your elegant regal head—your royal and serene forehead—a beautiful mind like no other.
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