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Back book cover featuring a black and white photograph of a woman in a white dress standing against a garden backdrop.
Book cover with a woman in a blue dress against a floral background, surrounded by decorative floral brooch and illustrated cushion against a blue background.

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World Catalogue

£40.00

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is a captivating journey through Cecil Beaton’s photographs from 1922 to 1955, where glamour, resilience, and creativity converge to define an era that continues to captivate audiences today. 

Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was an extraordinary force in the 20th century British and American creative scenes. Renowned as a fashion illustrator, Oscar winning costume designer, social caricaturist, essayist, and decorated writer, Beaton’s impact spans the worlds of fashion, photography, and design. This publication will delve into the core of his career, focusing on his key influential contributions to fashion, a realm where he initially garnered acclaim. The publication accompanies the exhibition of the same name which opens at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in October 2025.

About the exhibition:

Renowned as a fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist and writer, Cecil Beaton – ‘The King of Vogue’ – was an extraordinary force in the 20th-century British and American creative scenes. Elevating fashion and portrait photography into an art form, his era-defining photographs captured beauty, glamour, and star power in the interwar and early post-war eras. 

Format: 300 x 240 mm

Pages: 288

Illustrations: 270

IBSN: 9781855148055

Binding: Hardback

Category: Art/Art History

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