'Renaissance Man' Hamish Bowles Receives Pratt Fashion Icon Award from Diane von Furstenberg

We’ve had the pleasure of hearing Hamish Bowles, Vogue‘s European Editor at Large, enrapture a crowd with his knowledge of fashion history, of taking in his most recent curatorial triumph (“Balenciaga: Spanish Master,” now on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco as “Balenciaga and Spain”), and of reading his books and articles, including those delightful fish-out-of-water pieces for Vogue that see the dapper Brit take on everything from pro basketball and surfing to Outward Bound-style adventures and “urban foraging.”