Hamish Bowles

“I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in read...”

“Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.”

“Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.”