Hamish Bowles

1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Hamish Bowles

Sir Cecil Beaton died in his sleep on 18 January 1980. I was 16 and absolutely distraught. I had made it my mission to meet him, but alas this was not to be. Some months later, however, Christie’s announced that it was selling the contents of his last home, the enchanting Queen Anne doll’s house known as Reddish House in the village of Broadchalke, Wiltshire.

1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Hamish Bowles

In January of 1984, Leigh Bowery moved into his glamorous new home in east London. Farrell House was an unforgiving block of council flats in Ronald Street, Stepney, but his place was high enough up to afford splendid views, and inside it contained, among other things, a commodious hall and three bedrooms. Lots of room to dress up. He was joined by Trojan (né Gary Barnes), a strangely beautiful young man who looked like a Medieval priest with his long face and staring eyes.

1 month ago | vogue.de | Hamish Bowles

Maison Margiela x Christian Louboutin: In Form von weißen "Tabi"-Schuhen mit einem roten Streifen an der Ferse prallen diese beiden Welten aufeinander. Christian Louboutins Erinnerung an John Galliano reicht 40 Jahre zurück, als dieser seine ersten Schritte in Paris machte: "Er war ein aufgeregter englischer Modestudent, aber zudem sehr, sehr aufgeregt wegen Paris", erinnert sich Louboutin.

1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Hamish Bowles

Ralph Rucci, a man of exacting taste, lives in the penthouse of a quirky 1930s building on the eastern end of 72nd Street in Manhattan. It is a one-bedroom apartment embowered in a terrace planted with trees that affords dramatic views. ‘I moved in about 30 years ago,’ says Rucci, who remembers that at first it was very minimal and even austere, with a Mies van der Rohe chaise and Chinese tables.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Hamish Bowles

Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, June 2002“If We Took a Holiday: Silvia Fendi,” by Hamish Bowles, was originally published in the June 2002 issue of Vogue. Here, we revisit the story as Fendi kicks off its year-long centenary celebrations with a runway show at Milan Fashion Week this afternoon. Whether you take the slow ferry from Naples or the hydrofoil from Anzio, near Rome, it is something of an adventure to reach the island of Ponza.