Hamish Bowles (born 22 June 1963)[citation needed] is an English fashion journalist. Since 1995 he has been the European editor-at-large for the American edition of Vogue. Read full biography of Hamish Bowles →
I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they... →
The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about... →
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
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 and the pageantry!
After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment -... →
As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the... →
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 to get... →