All Hamish Bowles Quotes
- 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… Capture
- 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… Acidic
- 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… Background
- 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. All
- 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… American
- For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. Baffle
- Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice. Alice
- I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926… Chanel
- 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… Big
- My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums. All
- 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… Bewitching
- 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… Barter
- 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… Across
- Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed… Art
- Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot. Hot
- I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon. Beginning
- 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… Down
- In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story. Age
- Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. Both
- My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. Caustic
- 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… Balenciaga