Quotes by Hamish Bowles - Page 1

I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.
Hamish Bowles / Journalist
Duty
Wardrobe
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Hot
Marrakech
May
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Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.
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Feet
Six
Three
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Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
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Inch
Lady
Scott
Stocking
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My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
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Museums
Costume
Formed
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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Confession
Moss
Phenomenon
Understand
Did
Beginning
In The Beginning
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In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
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New Age
Catherine
Intoxicating
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When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
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Department
Frightening
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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Beloved
Joyous
Thread
Always Me Singing
Alice
Connects
Me Singing Always
Lyric
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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 1962.
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Collecting
Couture
Firsts
Pieces
Years
Bought
Suit
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Ownership
Word
Material
Possess
Suggestive
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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New York
Flea Markets
Fleas
Found
Chanel
Despairing
Flea
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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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Caustic
Childhood
Childhood Memories
Harmonious
Memories
Oil
Sensations
Soda
Twin
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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Coaches
Cricket
Division
Rugby
Soccer
Teams
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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.
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Fashion
Rocks
Years
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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.
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Obsession
Rocks
Treacherous
Cover
Dashed
Sang
Siren
Ten Years
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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.
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Decades
Manhattan
Oblivion
Although
Matters
Remained
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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!
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Wedding
Electric
Racing
Romance
Royal
Spine
Thrill
Up And Down
Sends
Sets
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I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
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Inverse
Outrageous
Miss
Mr
Prisoners
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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British
Collecting
Fashion
Magazines
Reading
Cecil
Maybe
Specifically
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Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.
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Creativity
Fashion
Unique
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Fashion Show
Glamorous
Occasional
Party
Course
Personally
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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.
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Austerity
Princess
Across
Clothing
Elizabeth
Hundreds
Postwar
Sent
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I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.
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Historical
Pieces
Saint
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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Diana
Royal
Unknown
David
Charles
Designers
Elizabeth
Graduated
Lady
Prince Charles
Spencer
Wed
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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 stripped pine mingling with incense.
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Incense
Mingling
Parent
Purple
Silk
Smell
Newly
Pine
Sixties
Stripped
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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.
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Editors
Annual
Contest
Entered
Magazine
Mention
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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 have some historical resonance.
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Gucci
Mcqueen
Odd
Resonance
Saint
Acquired
Ford
Tom
Tom Ford
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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.
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Attempting
Midst
Applying
Explore
Incumbent
Presidents
Psyche
Row
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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 into a library lined with books.
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Covered
Dense
Drawing
Library
Transformed
Henry
Interior
James
Lined
Walls
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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.
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Coffee
No Idea
Shooting
Cup
Hoops
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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 mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.
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Fashion
Mirrors
Trying
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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.
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Concur
Illness
Infancy
Obsession
Accumulate
Brothers
Experienced
Ode
Psychic
Whisper
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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 am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Collecting
Contemporary
Criteria
Magazines
Confess
Documented
Drawn
Shift
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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 an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
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Clinic
Dusk
Hardened
Jordan
Paparazzi
Princess
Tiny
Wales
Queen
Roman
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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.
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Bigger
Decorating
Taste
Vintage
Acquired
Student
Floor
Plan
Wore
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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.
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Customs
Client
Declare
Label
Occasionally
Recognize
Sketch
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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.
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Canterbury
Choir
Secure
Solo
Audition
Carol
Cathedral
Freddy
Lady
Production
Sang
Timid
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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Arranging
Fabric
Photoshop
Stylist
Tricks
Life My Life Picture
Editor
Gown
Skirt
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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.
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Competition
Department
Levels
Great Competition People
Dressed
Stimulating
Junior
Originally
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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New York
Uplifting
Country
Fashion
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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Uplifting
Decorating
Energizing
Scope
Thrilling
Scale
Grander
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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.
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Sister
Holiday
Morocco
Pluck
Barter
Chicken
Proved
Raise
Roast
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We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
Hamish Bowles / Journalist
Environment
Generations
Reading
Sorting
Strange
Wheat
World View
Certainly
Different World
Practically
Obviously
View
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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.
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Sister
Halt
Junk
Leap
Lungs
Scream
Shops
Antique
Explore
Shop
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