BEATON Sir Cecil (Photographer)

Eight models in a spectacular neoclassical interior are wearing ball gowns by Charles James in this 1948 American Vogue editorial by Cecil Beaton. Its mood of elegant grandeur captures the spirit of Dior's New Look, which revolutionized fashion with its feminine romanticism and state-of-the-art construction. Dior claimed James had inspired the New Look and Beaton and James were lifelong friends. Beaton _photographer, illustrator, designer, writer, diarist and aesthete_ captured the nuances of fashion and the fashionable from the 1920s until his death. In 1928 he began a long relationship with Vogue. Always in touch with the zeitgeist, he developed accordingly, photographing the Rolling Stones, Penelope Tree and Twiggy in the 1960s. He was as much a part of Swinging London as they were. "Fashion was his cocaine. He could make it happen. He sought the eternal in fashion", wrote a friend after his death. 

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