The Glass of Fashion

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.

BINDING
Red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine.

BOOK CONDITION
Good, a few marks of age to endpapers and outer pages.

DUST JACKET
Fair, small amount of tearing to upper edges and spine. Spine discoloured, darkened. Has at some point been reinforced in three places with small pieces of brown paper glued inside.

EDITION
First edition, 1954.

DESCRIPTION
343 pp. 16 black and white photographs of fashion icons of the day such as Coco Chanel and Audrey Hepburn. Also numerous drawings and sketches by the author.

SYNOPSIS
Cecil Beaton's personal history of fashion and those who have influenced it in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Witty and wise, a most knowledgeable book about fashion and it's designers. Full of anecdotes and the authors own drawings and photographs.