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Hamish Bowles

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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. - Hamish Bowles
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#Obsession
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#Rocks
Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady. - Hamish Bowles
#Every
#Feet
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#Lady
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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. - Hamish Bowles
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#Face
#Princess
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
#Cricket
#High School
#Me
#School
#Sports
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
#American
#Citizenship
#Get
#Myself
#Way
I don't have an off-duty wardrobe. - Hamish Bowles
#Wardrobe
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
#Coffee
#Did
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#Something
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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. - Hamish Bowles
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#Great
#Just
#Market
#New
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. - Hamish Bowles
#Ball
#Fashion
#Life
#My Life
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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. - Hamish Bowles
#High School
#High
#Meet
#School
#Talent
My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums. - Hamish Bowles
#Costume
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#Go
#Quite
#Wanted
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. - Hamish Bowles
#Big
#Drawing
#Library
#Room
#Walls
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
#Living
#People
#Student
#Taste
#Vintage
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! - Hamish Bowles
#Down
#Heart
#Royal
#Up And Down
#Wedding
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
#Crazy
#Failure
#Game
#Heart
#Mom
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
#Chicken
#Family
#Me
#Mother
#Perfection
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