I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
