Hamish Bowles Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.”

“Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.”

“Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.”

“When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”