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B.O.L.D. Books Open Life’s Doors
Leanna sat in the back of her third grade classroom at Coggeshall Elementary School in Newport, staring down at her desk. She was looking intensely at the picture book there, holding her finger on the page, her petite shoulders hunched over to get as close as she could to every word. She seemed unaware of her classmates’ antics this September morning, or perhaps she was just uninterested in them. Instead, her focus was solely on the page.
By Annie Sherman
Photography by Jacqueline Marque
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Variations on Seam
In the life of Hamish Bowles, fashion has found its Shangri-la. Bowles is European Editor-at-Large for VOGUE, but his reach into the world of style, has, unlike Anna Wintour’s, much more to do with the history of clothing, in all its sublimity and revolution. With a collection of couture dating as far back as the 19th century, and including more than 2,000 items, his knowledge of what was and is happening in design houses all over the world makes him the most dapper encyclopedia alive. If the “Sex and the City” franchise highlights the materialism and self-aggrandizement of the fashion industry, Bowles is the antidote; he is the high priest of wardrobe as craft. His attention to the structure of a garment, and his way with words when describing a true work of art, can make even the man on the street pine for a bespoke double-breasted suit and cufflinks. Bowles is an acquirer of rarities; about the, now, lesser-known Mainbocher designs of the 1930s through the 1960s, he says, “Everything was perfectly charged and controlled. I certainly seek out his things for my collection.”
By Rachel Carter
Photo by SallyAnne Santos
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