Hamish Bowles Quotes

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• 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 a…
• When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly…
• 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…
• Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
• In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to…
• For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
• Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
• I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926…
• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room…
• My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
• I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi…
• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to…
• In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress…
• Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed…
• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
• What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp…
• In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
• My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

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