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Hamish Bowles
Hamish Bowles
English Journalist
Born: Jul 23, 1963
Collecting Fashion First Me People Thought
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I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise. Hamish Bowles
Fashion Great People Competition Style Think Otherwise See Dressed More Vogue Exciting Because Stimulating Junior Department Much Originally Levels
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. Hamish Bowles
Fashion Me Old First Dashed Ten Vogue Ten Years Obsession Call Cover Years Rocks Siren Against Sang Treacherous
Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch. Hamish Bowles
Will Seen Lost Took Recognize Out Dress Something Vogue Over Come Occasionally Client Years Label Maybe Want Little Sketch Declare Customs Across 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 where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore. Hamish Bowles
Mom Crazy Failure Game Heart Father Parents Sister Our Saw Top Out Would Driving Leap How Halt Go Were Antique Junk Shop Shops Scream Where Poor Explore Play Lungs Started
When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet. Hamish Bowles
Fashion Thought Vogue Most Frightening Department Places Planet Really Started
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 explore the national psyche in every way. Hamish Bowles
Myself National Every Incumbent Finally Way Presidents Citizenship Attempting Felt Get American Psyche Midst Explore Row Applying
Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was. Hamish Bowles
You Coffee Thought Hoops Exactly No Idea Something Had Idea Sure Were Cup Did Shooting Actually
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. Hamish Bowles
Me Sports School First Cricket Rugby High High School Division Put Still Soccer Coaches Reasons Teams
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice. Hamish Bowles
Me Singing Lyric Alice Pleasure Thread Joyous Always Private Been Grandmother Connects Beloved
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 Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it. Hamish Bowles
Service School Thought Young Too Our Later Carol Secure Solo High Freddy High School Fair Soprano Cathedral Boy Audition Role Timid Lady Canterbury Far Choir Sang Production
When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine. Hamish Bowles
School Meet Entered High London Magazine High School About Vogue Mention Talent Annual Wrote Contest Got Editors Up Special British
I don't have an off-duty wardrobe. Hamish Bowles
Wardrobe
Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady. Hamish Bowles
Great Three Every Feet Scott Stocking Six Lady Inch Her
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 my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection. Hamish Bowles
Family Me Woman Mother Sister Young Market Pluck Only Morocco Perfection Roast She Sort Proved Were Chicken Very Holiday Then Cook Who Barter Raise
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 of their dreams. Hamish Bowles
Dreams Face Country Hundreds Dress Postwar Could Princess She Austerity Clothing Sent Across Elizabeth
Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot. Hamish Bowles
May
My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy. Hamish Bowles
Psychic Will Brothers Vogue Taken Obsession Concur Ode Infancy Began Times Accumulate Office Experienced Anyone Which Whisper Who Illness
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. Hamish Bowles
Memories Harmonious Seem Caustic Childhood Childhood Memories Oil Sensations Far Twin Soda
After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style. Hamish Bowles
People First Living Other Student Head Years Than Taste After Bigger Apartment Wore Plan Acquired Then Much Decorating Floor Vintage

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