The first book to focus on the evolving wardrobe of Cecil Beaton, whose brilliant style is being celebrated afresh as classic tailoring comes back in vogue<\/p>\n
When fashion photographer and costume designer Cecil Beaton died in 1980, it was not surprising that one of his tailors was telephoned with the news before Buckingham Palace, despite his close association with the Royal Family. From the moment he arrived at Cambridge University in 1922 wearing an evening jacket, red shoes, black-and-white trousers, and a large cravat, to his appearance nearly forty years later at Truman Capote\u2019s Black and White Ball, Beaton expressed a flamboyant sartorial nonchalance. He had accounts with the best Savile Row tailors; he bought his shirts from Excello in New York; and his clothes from Lanz of Salzburg now reside, along with other elements of his wardrobe, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.<\/p>\n
A Life in Fashion<\/em> is a lively and informative study of Beaton\u2019s style, which kept evolving over the decades, driving and reflecting the transitions in men\u2019s fashion that followed the Second World War. Drawing on unpublished records and interviews with Beaton\u2019s former tailors, Benjamin Wild delightfully scrutinizes Beaton\u2019s approach to fashion as well as his influence on designers such as Giles Deacon and Dries van Noten. 80 illustrations in color and black-and-white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first book to focus on the evolving wardrobe of Cecil Beaton, whose brilliant style is being celebrated afresh as classic tailoring comes back in vogue When fashion photographer and costume designer Cecil Beaton died in 1980, it was not surprising that one of his tailors was telephoned with the news before Buckingham Palace, despite…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4519],"product_tag":[334,514],"class_list":["post-13860","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fashion-en-en","product_tag-collections-en","product_tag-men-en","pa_author_att-benjamin-wild-tim-walker-en","pa_cover-hardcover","pa_format-23-x-306-cm-en","pa_isbn-9780500518335-en","pa_language-eng","pa_pages-144-en","pa_published-2016-03-14-en","pa_publisher-thames-hudson-en","first","instock","sale","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n