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 acquireapartmentbig share on social
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. Hamish Bowles artcharlecollege Change image and share on social
In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story. Hamish Bowles agecatherinecinderella Change image and share on social
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 bafflecoachcricket Change image and share on social
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 accumulationbeginbrother share on social
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 auditionboycanterbury share on social
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. Hamish Bowles dayfairchildfavoritism Change image and share on social
I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon. Hamish Bowles beginconfessionkate Change image and share on social
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. Hamish Bowles acidiccaftanchildhood Change image and share on social
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 chaneldespairfind Change image and share on social
