The Glass Of Fashion: A Personal History Of Fifty Years Of Changing Tastes And The People Who Have Inspired Them
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
From the glittering salons of Edwardian England to the bold, revolutionary ateliers of mid-century Paris, The Glass of Fashion is a dazzling memoir-cum-cultural history that chronicles five decades of style through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated aesthetes. Cecil Beaton — photographer, designer, and confidant to royalty and the haute monde alike — presents an intimate panorama of the icons, innovators, and eccentrics who shaped modern taste, from Coco Chanel and Christian Dior to the Duchess of Windsor and beyond, weaving personal anecdote with incisive social observation. Beaton writes with the authority of an insider and the wit of a born raconteur, producing a work that is as much a meditation on beauty and elegance as it is a sharp portrait of a vanishing world. His prose is anecdotal yet authoritative, shot through with brilliant flashes of humour and an almost painterly attention to detail. The Glass of Fashion stands as an essential document of twentieth-century cultural history — a testament to the idea that clothing is never merely cloth, but a mirror held up to the soul of an era. Who, one wonders, would dare to hold such a mirror today?
Author: Cecil Beaton
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Genre: Fashion & beauty
Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
From the glittering salons of Edwardian England to the bold, revolutionary ateliers of mid-century Paris, The Glass of Fashion is a dazzling memoir-cum-cultural history that chronicles five decades of style through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated aesthetes. Cecil Beaton — photographer, designer, and confidant to royalty and the haute monde alike — presents an intimate panorama of the icons, innovators, and eccentrics who shaped modern taste, from Coco Chanel and Christian Dior to the Duchess of Windsor and beyond, weaving personal anecdote with incisive social observation. Beaton writes with the authority of an insider and the wit of a born raconteur, producing a work that is as much a meditation on beauty and elegance as it is a sharp portrait of a vanishing world. His prose is anecdotal yet authoritative, shot through with brilliant flashes of humour and an almost painterly attention to detail. The Glass of Fashion stands as an essential document of twentieth-century cultural history — a testament to the idea that clothing is never merely cloth, but a mirror held up to the soul of an era. Who, one wonders, would dare to hold such a mirror today?