Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World

More than 250 items–including photographs, letters, sketches, and costumes–showcase Beaton at his most triumphant.–Tracy Doyle “Air Mail”
A pioneer of fashion photography, writer, chronicler of social mores, illustrator, set and costume designer for film and theatre – Sir Cecil Beaton wore many hats, revolutionizing the world of style while reflecting the ever-changing spirit of his time. No major figure of the 20th century is absent from his elite pantheon.–Nathalie Dassa “Blind Magazine”
Almost entirely self-taught, Beaton established a singular photographic style; a marriage of Edwardian staged portraiture, emerging European surrealism and the modernist approach of the great American photographers of the era, all filtered through a determinedly English sensibility. His approach revitalized and revolutionized fashion photography.–Mee-Lai Stone “The Guardian”
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World’ surveys the groundbreaking oeuvre of one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. More than 250 items–including photographs, letters, sketches, and costumes–showcase Beaton at his most triumphant.–Tracy Doyle “Air Mail”
Will we ever reach Cecil Beaton saturation point? No time soon, it seems. The photographer, polymath and national treasure, celebrated for his gossip-filled diaries, portraits of the Queen, countless Vogue editorials and the haute Edwardian monochrome drag he created for My Fair Lady, is the epitome of the Big Fashion Personality – one of today’s more colourful endangered species.–Mark C O’Flaherty “The Financial Times”

Robin Muir is a Contributing Editor to British Vogue. His books include Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things (2020), Vogue 100: A Century of Style (2016), Under the Influence: John Deakin, Photography and the Lure of Soho (2014), Vogue Model: The Faces of Fashion (2013), Vogue Covers: On Fashion’s Front Page (co-author, 2009), In Camera: Snowdon and the World of British Art (2007), The World’s Most Photographed (2005), People in Vogue: A Century of Portrait Photography (co-author, 2005), Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion (2004) and David Bailey: Chasing Rainbows (2001).

Hamish Bowles is Vogue’s Global Editor-at-Large and Editor in Chief at The World of Interiors.

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