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Born in 1904: British photographer (1904-80)

Portrait by Duchess of Kent (1906-1968), 1943

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2022-01-14

My pix, watercolour, pencil & ink on paper, costume design of a Victorian ensemble for actress Lynn Fontanne in 1952 comedy 'Quadrille' play London designed by for at Art & Style exhibition until 23/12/21

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2021-08-20

1/5: wrote in catalogue of 1971 exhbt that he'd ideally like to have something belonging to "She was ineffably chic. Her silhouette was that of a figurine of with her hourglass corset & high, tightly packed hair."

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2021-06-19

Why and His Are More Pertinent Than Ever. Beaton’s early showed the power of artifice and fantasy in a Britain demolished by World War One https://t.co/P8ob1P9sTz

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2020-03-20

Through hard work, charisma, charm, audacity & luck, Cecil Beaton became synonymous with the world of the glamorous & stylish 'Bright Young Things'

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2020-03-15

Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas 1948

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2020-01-18

Cecil Beaton 1904 – 1980

"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 the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Cecil Beaton

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2020-01-14

MY NAME IS MELINDA!
Barbra Streisand, dressed in Cecil Beaton's exquisite gowns, as Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees in

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2019-07-03

Thank you so much for this wonderful source of inspiration 📌 photographed by on his amazing hat for , from 1963. 📌 link in bio for available sizes and prices
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2018-12-14


"Queen Of The Jazz Age"
Photographed here by

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2017-08-27

Deadlines looming-see ya'll in a few days xx
Charles James, Ball Gowns, 1948
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2017-05-12


Drawings and photography of Mademoiselle Chanel...

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2017-01-25