Hamish Bowles
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Hamish Bowles is the Europe
an Editor
at Large for Vogue
and involved in the worlds of fashion
and interior design
.
English-born Mr. Bowles was educated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
. Prior to joining Vogue, Mr. Bowles began his career at London’s Harpers & Queen magazine in 1984, working as Fashion Editor and rising to Style Director in 1989.
In April 2001, Mr. Bowles was creative consultant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, with responsibility for organizing and mounting the internationally renowned and critically acclaimed Costume Institute exhibition, “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years—Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library Museum.” In April 2002, this popular exhibit was reopened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Bowles has spent the last year curating “Balenciaga: Spanish Master,” an exhibition on the work of Cristóbal Balenciaga for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in Manhattan. An expanded version of the exhibition, “Balenciaga and Spain,” opened at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in March 2011.
Years (2001); Carolina Herrera
: Portrait of a Fashion Icon (2004); Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People (2007); Yves Saint Laurent
Style (2008); The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places (2009); Balenciaga
: Spanish Master (2010); and Balenciaga and Spain (2011).
His lectures include “The Dandy” (1984) at the Victoria and Albert Museum
, London; “The Newest Art” (1998) and “The American Century: America’s Fashion Ascendancy and Its Roots” (1999) at New York University
; “Molyneux
” (2008) at the Fashion Institute of Technology
, New York; “The Line of Beauty” and “Yves Saint Laurent and the Influence of Christian Dior
” (2008 at the de Young Museum, San Francisco); “My World in Vogue: Reporting and the Fashionable Life” (2010) at Savannah College of Art and Design
; and “Balenciaga: Spanish Master” (2010) at the Fashion Institute of Technology
.
Mr. Bowles has an extensive private collection of historic haute couture
and fashionably significant clothes. He has lent pieces to exhibitions at several museums including the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan
; the Palais Galliera and the Musée de la Mode et du Textile
at the Louvre
in Paris
; and the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of London.
In 1998 he had a cameo in Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
as a young David Hockney
. In 2006 he had a cameo in Sofia Coppola
's Marie Antoinette
as a courtier. In 2010 Bowles appeared as himself on Gossip Girl
Season Four and in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
He resides in Manhattan
.
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an Editor
Editor
The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
at Large for Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
and involved in the worlds of fashion
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
and interior design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
.
Background
As the European Editor at Large for Vogue, Hamish Bowles is recognized as one of the most respected authorities on the worlds of fashion and interior design. After beginning as Vogue’s Style Editor in 1992, Mr. Bowles was promoted to European Editor at Large in 1995. His current role includes overseeing all interior-design features, writing profile stories, and covering fashion and contemporary culture, as well as the history of fashion and style for the magazine. Mr. Bowles also contributes to Vogue.com through his rubric “The Hamishsphere.”English-born Mr. Bowles was educated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...
. Prior to joining Vogue, Mr. Bowles began his career at London’s Harpers & Queen magazine in 1984, working as Fashion Editor and rising to Style Director in 1989.
In April 2001, Mr. Bowles was creative consultant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, with responsibility for organizing and mounting the internationally renowned and critically acclaimed Costume Institute exhibition, “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years—Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library Museum.” In April 2002, this popular exhibit was reopened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
Mr. Bowles has spent the last year curating “Balenciaga: Spanish Master,” an exhibition on the work of Cristóbal Balenciaga for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in Manhattan. An expanded version of the exhibition, “Balenciaga and Spain,” opened at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in March 2011.
Works
Mr. Bowles has written for and contributed to countless articles, reviews, and books on fashion history, art, lifestyle, and interior design. His books include Jacqueline Kennedy: The White HouseWhite House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
Years (2001); Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera is the name of:*Carolina Herrera , Venezuelan fashion designer*Carolina Herrera , Colombian Singer/Guitarist*Astrid Carolina Herrera , Venezuelan winner of the Miss World pageant in 1984...
: Portrait of a Fashion Icon (2004); Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People (2007); Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent may refer to:* Yves Saint Laurent , French fashion designer* Yves Saint Laurent , a luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé...
Style (2008); The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places (2009); Balenciaga
Balenciaga
Balenciaga is a fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, a Basque designer, born in the Basque Country, Spain. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior. His bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet ultra-modern...
: Spanish Master (2010); and Balenciaga and Spain (2011).
His lectures include “The Dandy” (1984) at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, London; “The Newest Art” (1998) and “The American Century: America’s Fashion Ascendancy and Its Roots” (1999) at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
; “Molyneux
Molyneux
Molyneux is a surname. Over the centuries, several deviations of the name Molyneaux have emerged. As the English language changed and incorporated elements of other European languages such as Norman French and Latin, even literate people regularly changed the spelling of their names...
” (2008) at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
, New York; “The Line of Beauty” and “Yves Saint Laurent and the Influence of Christian Dior
Christian Dior
Christian Dior , was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.-Life:...
” (2008 at the de Young Museum, San Francisco); “My World in Vogue: Reporting and the Fashionable Life” (2010) at Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah College of Art and Design
SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design, is a private, accredited and degree-granting university with locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, Hong Kong, and Lacoste, France.-History:...
; and “Balenciaga: Spanish Master” (2010) at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
.
Mr. Bowles has an extensive private collection of historic haute couture
Haute couture
Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses,...
and fashionably significant clothes. He has lent pieces to exhibitions at several museums including the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan
Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York is an art gallery and history museum founded in 1923 to present the history of New York City, USA and its people...
; the Palais Galliera and the Musée de la Mode et du Textile
Musée de la Mode et du Textile
The Musée de la Mode et du Textile is a museum of fashion and textiles located in the Louvre in the Ier arrondissement, 107, rue de Rivoli, Paris, France...
at the Louvre
Louvre
The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
; and the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of London.
In 1998 he had a cameo in Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film made for television by the British Broadcasting Corporation . It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, and Tilda Swinton....
as a young David Hockney
David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
. In 2006 he had a cameo in Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and producer.In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing...
's Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....
as a courtier. In 2010 Bowles appeared as himself on Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite...
Season Four and in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
He resides in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
.