Instagram snoop: Hamish Bowles
Welcome to Instagram Snoop, where we let you in on the style arbiters whose interiors we're stalking. This week's subject is elegant and creative fashion journalist Hamish Bowles, who is in love with colour, pattern, and an exotic view. Step into his flamboyant world.
Who: Hamish Bowles (@hamishinlilac)
What:
Flamboyant fashion journalist Hamish Bowles is the long-time European editor-at-large for the American edition of Vogue
Why:
Hamish loves colour and elegant composition, with a formidable knowledge of art and fashion history. He has a knack for finding picturesque places to work, as seen in his recent travels to Paris, Morocco and Derbyshire. For his 50th birthday, Ralph Lauren made him a three-piece suit in sherbet pink, with an antique fob chain, and a diamond and emerald Art Deco pin. You get the idea.
1. On a recent trip to Morocco, he stopped in this showstopping living room, with a ceiling to match the red and stripe hand-loomed wool from the foudouk
2. This whimsical scene in Tangier featured an unusual watercolour scene by Lawrence Mynott, the British illustrator, designer and portrait painter
3. Stunning Lawrence Mynott trompe l'oeil palm tree with an opaline lamp in Tangier
4. At the home of his friend Veere Grenney in Tangier he spotted a wonderful wall of Worcester china, very prettily arranged among plaster palm trees
5. In Britain, he travelled up to Derbyshire where he is curator of the 'House Style' exhibition at Chatsworth House. Here dresses by Chanel, Vivenne Westwood, Helmut Lang and Balmain are showcased in the dining room.
6. A malachite table, a gift from Tsar Alexander I to the Sixth Duke, beneath a Sargent portrait from 1902 at Chatsworth, in the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
7. On his whistlestop tour of Europe he headed to France. The Miu Miu set in Paris, in which the entire Conseil Economique by Auguste Perret was wrapped in lilac shagpile carpet
8. Preview of Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons at the Place Vendome
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