Hamish Bowles Quotes

Hamish Bowles — English Journalist born on June 22, 1963,

Hamish Bowles is an English fashion journalist. Since 1995 he has been the European editor-at-large for the American edition of Vogue... (wikipedia)

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

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.

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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