The Glass of Fashion - Cecil Beaton
BEATON, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1954.
First edition, first printing. A classic work on the history of fashion and the personalities who shaped the tastes and styles of the 20th century. Across eighteen chapters, complemented by more than 150 of his own line drawings and photographs, Beaton writes with great wit about the influence of luminaries such as Schiaparelli, Chanel, Dior, Lady Diana Cooper, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn and, Diana Vreeland, as well as relatively unknown muses like his Aunt Jessie, who gave him his first glimpse of the grown-up world of fashion. In a very attractive dust jacket by Beaton.
viii, 343 pages. Portrait frontispiece, b&w photos, line drawings. 8vo, original red cloth boards, slight lean to spine. Attractive bookplate to endpaper. Very good in very good dust- jacket (a few minor chips, nicks, and short tears; spine slightly browned; price-clipped).