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All Quotes by author - Hamish Bowles
" 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. "
Coffee
Shooting
Cup
" 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. "
People
Student
Vintage
" 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. "
Matters
Two
Oblivion
" 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. "
Thought
Service
School
" For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. "
Me
High School
Sports
" I don't have an off-duty wardrobe. "
Wardrobe
" 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. "
Queen
Princess
Myself
" I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon. "
Confession
Understand
Beginning
" 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. "
Odd
Just
Historical
" 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. "
Really
Miss
Kind
" I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel. "
Market
Just
Find
" In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story. "
Age
Miss
Cinderella
" 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. "
Sent
Princess
Face
" 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. "
Myself
American
Citizenship
" 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. "
Old
Started
Piece
" 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. "
Reading
Fashion
Looking
" 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. "
Competition
Think
Style
" 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. "
Fashion
You
Picture
" 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. "
Call
Fashion
Obsession
" 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. "
Royal
Unknown
She
" Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot. "
May
" My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda. "
Far
Childhood
Soda
" 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. "
Pictures
Library
Walls
" 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. "
Woman
Sister
She
" 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. "
Obsession
Vogue
Whisper
" My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums. "
Costume
Wanted
Museums
" 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. "
Will
Lost
Sketch
" 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. "
You
Fashion
Show
" Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. "
Word
Material
Possessions
" Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice. "
Always
Grandmother
Thread
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