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Hamish Bowles

b. 1963

British fashion journalist

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Born 1963. Hamish Bowles is a British journalist.

Hamish Bowles (born 23 July 1963) is an English fashion journalist and editor. He is Vogue magazine's global editor at large. On 17 September 2021, Bowles was also named the new editor in chief at The World of Interiors, a Condé Nast interior design magazine. In addition to his editorial roles, Bowles has hosted the podcasts In Vogue: The 1990s and In Vogue: The 2000s. He also narrates Vogues YouTube series Everything You Need to Know. In 2006 he appeared for some seconds in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette as a courtier. He has lent items from his collection to exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At Vogue, Bowles appeared in a video series titled "Vintage Bowles" where cameras followed him as he shopped for clothes around the world.

In 2022, Bowles co-hosted the Met Gala alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Blake Lively.

In October 2022, then aged 59, Bowles suffered an acute ischemic stroke while inspecting a home renovation, with catastrophic deficits in the areas of locomotion, speech, memory, and motor reflexes. "...Blood flow to my brain was blocked," he writes in his narrative of recovery, published in British Vogue. "I couldn’t speak, nor move the right side of my body....It would be another 50 days before I regained the ability to drink or eat without intubation, and another 145 days before I would see a bed outside of the hospital."

In September 2021, Bowles became editor-in-chief of The World of Interiors. The magazine has only had three editors during its 41-year history. However, in 2024, Bowles became creative director-at-large and the magazine's editor Emily Tobin took on the editor-in-chief position.

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Saint Martin's School of Art

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British fashion journalist

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Hamish Bowles was born on 23 July 1963 in London.

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Hamish Bowles is a journalist.

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Hamish Bowles is British.

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· Wikipedia: Hamish Bowles

· Wikidata: Q5645353

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