Hamish Bowles

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

— Hamish Bowles

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a…

— Hamish Bowles

My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the…

— Hamish Bowles

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but…

— Hamish Bowles

Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art -…

— Hamish Bowles

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds…

— Hamish Bowles

In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

— Hamish Bowles

This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play…

— Hamish Bowles

Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.

— Hamish Bowles

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced…

— Hamish Bowles

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and…

— Hamish Bowles

I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I…

— Hamish Bowles

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as…

— Hamish Bowles

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and…

— Hamish Bowles

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find -…

— Hamish Bowles

Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

— Hamish Bowles

Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother…

— Hamish Bowles

I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks…

— Hamish Bowles

Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.

— Hamish Bowles

Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and…

— Hamish Bowles

I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

— Hamish Bowles

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with…

— Hamish Bowles

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across…

— Hamish Bowles

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

— Hamish Bowles

When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to…

— Hamish Bowles