Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World with Hugo Vickers
Beaton joined The London Library in the 1940s, part way through an extraordinary life that spanned fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist and writer.
Join us for a private tour of Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on his ground-breaking fashion work - from the Jazz Age and the Bright Young Things, to the high fashion brilliance of the fifties and the glittering success of My Fair Lady. Our guide is writer, broadcaster and longstanding Library member Hugo Vickers, who was appointed Beaton’s official biographer in 1979 shortly before the artist’s death. Entrusted not only with Beaton's papers but also access to his friends and contemporaries, the then emerging biographer began his own personal adventure into the artist's world, later documented in his book Malice in Wonderland.
Image credit: Cecil Beaton and Stephen Tennant, ‘Riviera Wanderers’ by Maurice Beck and Helen Macgregor, © 1927 reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery
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