The Glass of Fashion - Cecil Beaton
BEATON, Cecil. The Glass of Fashion. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1954.
'A personal history of fifty years of changing tastes and the people who inspired them'.
First edition, first printing. A classic work on twentieth-century fashion abundantly illustrated with more than 150 of Beaton's own line drawings and photographs. Highly entertaining, illuminating, and personal this is a must-have for fashion lovers. Some of the personalities featured in the book are Elsa Schiaparelli, Chanel, Dior, Lady Diana Cooper, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, and Diana Vreeland. Includes chapters such as the "Demi-Monde", "Chanel Number One", "The Beautiful and the Damned", and "The Age of Anxiety".
A very good copy in the attractive dust jacket by Beaton.
viii, 343 pages. Portrait frontispiece, b&w photos, line drawings. 8vo, original red cloth boards, slight lean to spine. Bookplate to endpaper. Small chip to the foot of p. 63. Very good in very good dust- jacket (a few minor chips, nicks and short tears; spine slightly browned; price-clipped).