Cecil Beaton

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&Quand un salon littéraire devient un boudoir pour dames&

Яркие личности, как правило, невозможно описать в нескольких словах. Кто она? Модель, дизайнер, наследница империи Гиннесс, муза, светская дама, меценат, актриса, продюссер, коллекционер, парфюмер? Любое из этих определений подходит Дафне Гиннесс. Ее неизменно называют одной из самых…

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by Cecil Beaton bromide print 1927 © Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, Sotheby's London

. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. -Jane Austen WWW by Cecil Beaton “I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.” WWW from Baltimore, to London, to Paris WWW was always stylish-however her love affair with couture and her quest for style began when her affair with the Prince of Wales began. Tweeds…

Cecil Beaton, Self-Portrait, 1937 [+] from npg

" Be Daring , Be different, Be impractical, Be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of . . .Common place; the slaves of the ordinary. " - Cecil Beaton <3 . I adore this man his photographs are one of a kind. He took pictures for Marilyn Monroe , Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn etc . January 14th, '1904 -January 18th '80 .

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll - a sketch by Cecil Beaton - 1934. She was one of the most beautiful and notorious women of the 20th century, whose elegance propelled her to a position of almost...

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"He is Fashion's Picasso" Cecil Beaton The young Cristobal Balenciaga photographed in Paris in 1937. Balenciaga in his fashion house, 10 Avenue George V, Paris Balenciaga at work In the 1950's Christian Dior launched the New Look with a never seen impact on the women's new way of dressing. Jacques Fath transformed women into diva's and Cristobal Balenciaga was the undisputed architect of this new era, an exceptional talented designer who's story is like a legend. Born in 1895 in Guetaria, a…

The Common-place Book of the Mercurius Aulicus, a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a...