Photos: Editor's Eye: Hamish Bowles
Photo: Courtesy of Hamish Bowles1/12The editor at the Dior Couture show, 2012.
Photo: Paul Chesley/National Geographic2/12“Beijing’s summer palace is the most ravishing marriage of landscape and architecture.”
Photo: Tim Hout3/12“I covet this facsimile box set of sketches that Yves Saint Laurent did for all his Haute Couture collectsions.”
Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture: The Complete Works, 1962–2002, $2,750; abramsbooks.com
Photo: Peter Lindbergh; Stephane Cardinale/Corbis4/12“The Dolce & Gabbana (left) and Dior (right) dresses would be my dream picks from the Paris and Sicilian Haute Couture to have for my own collectsion.”
Photo: Tim Hout5/12“I never leave home without La Mer Moisturizing Soft Cream [$150; lamer.com]. Knize Ten Eau de Toilette [$70; luckyscent.com], and Tracie Martyn products.”
Photo: Cuchi White/Corbis6/12“The Palazzina di Caccia di stupinigi is this exquisite hunting lodge just outside Turin.”
Photo: Tim Hout7/12Clockwise from left:
Tom Ford glasses, $430; select Tom Ford boutiques
Christian Louboutin embroidered eye slippers; christianlouboutin.comMarie-Hélène de Taillac cuff links; mariehelenedetaillac.com
Photo: Tim Hout; Yannis Vlamos/GoRunway.com8/12“I use these notebooks from the bookbinder Abdel Zaher in Cairo for interview notes and to sketch looks from the runway shows, which I’ve been doing since age fourteen.” Right: A men’s look from Dries Van Noten.
Photo: Tim Hout9/12Le Manach Chintz.
Photo: Tim Hout10/12From left:
Gene Meyer tie, $87; dougandgene.com
Marlon Gobel bow tie with Swarovski elements
11/12From left:
Spirits of Tangier, $55; birchbooks.com The Invention of the Past, $75; barnesandnoble.com
Photo: Courtesy of Isabel Bannerman12/12“Enduringly, I adore wild, inventive, and romantic gardens, and Hanham court, in Bristol, England, is exactly that.”