Background
Hamish Bowles was born in London in 1963, the son of David Victor Bowles, vice-provost of University College, London, and his wife Anne, a photographer.
fashion journalist European editor
Hamish Bowles was born in London in 1963, the son of David Victor Bowles, vice-provost of University College, London, and his wife Anne, a photographer.
Attended, Central St. Martins College Art & Design, London.
Since 1995 he has been the European editor-at-large for the American edition of Vogue. From 1984 until 1992, he worked for Harpers and Queen, a British fashion and lifestyle magazine, first as a fashion editor, then as fashion director and, from 1989, as style director In 1992, Bowles joined the staff of the American edition of Vogue.
In 1998 he had a cameo part in Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon as a young David Hockney.
In 2006 he appeared for some seconds in Sofia Coppola"s Marie Antoinette as a courtier. He appeared in 2009 in Valentino: The Last Emperor and in 2010 in Gossip Girl and in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Bowles has a large personal collection of designer clothing, including pieces by John Galliano and Charles Frederick Worth. He has lent items from his collection to exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Artist