Hamish Bowles

3 weeks ago | vogue.com | Hamish Bowles

“The Madame X Files,” by Hamish Bowles, was originally published in the January 1999 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here. John Singer Sargent’s 1884 portrait of Virginie Avegno Gautreau, universally acclaimed as Madame X, is a definitive study in image-making. La Gautreau flaunts her otherworldly looks and her chosen role as that exotic ornament to society, a professional beauty.

1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Hamish Bowles

To arrive at Chatsworth is to fleetingly feel like an emperor. That’s hardly surprising given that the house was built by Bess of Hardwick, who was second only to Elizabeth I in terms of wealth and influence. Although Bess’s other houses were left in their 16th-century condition, the stately pile in Derbyshire was the jewel – the country seat of the dukes of Devonshire, as they would become – and it changed with the fashions.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Hamish Bowles

On November 26, 2016, Keith McNally had a stroke. Or, as he writes in his new, revelatory memoir, I Regret Almost Everything (Gallery), which will be published on May 6th, “the clock stopped.” I know the feeling. For I had a stroke on October 22, 2022. It turned my life upside down. My life before the stroke was not unlike McNally’s. Both of us were British, living in New York; we hobnobbed with the great and the good—those who lived in the city and those passing through.

1 month ago | worldofinteriors.com | Hamish Bowles

A route map of Danish architecture unfurls when one takes the Strandvejen road along the coast above the Sound. The pretty Skovshoved Harbour lies just north of Copenhagen. Architect Arne Jacobsen’s 1937 petrol station here, conceived as part of a beach complex, is a little gem.

2 months ago | vogue.com | Hamish Bowles |Annie Leibovitz

“Little Girl & Boy Lost,” by Hamish Bowles, was originally published in the December 2009 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here. I've always been an outspoken and extreme dresser,” pronounces Lady Gaga, here embodying a Marc Jacobs—clad witch for Annie Leibovitz's Hansel and Gretel portfolio (inspired by Richard Jones's production of the 1893 Engelbert Humperdinck opera, opening this month at the Metropolitan Opera).