内容简介
Cecil Beaton was one of the great twentieth-centurytastemakers. A photographer, artist, writer and designer for morethan fifty years, he was at the center of the worlds of fashion,society, theater and film. The Unexpurgated Beaton bringstogether for the first time the never-before-published diaries from1970 to 1980 and, unlike the six slim volumes of diaries publishedduring his lifetime, these have been left uniquely unedited.
Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton’s estate and the author ofhis acclaimed biography, has added extensive and fascinating notesthat are as lively as the diary entries themselves. As one Londonreviewer wrote, “Vickers’ waspish footnotes are the salt on theside of the dish.” Beaton treated his other published diaries likehis photographs, endlessly retouching them, but, for this volume,Vickers went back to the original manu*s to find the unediteddiaries.
Hugo Vickers, the executor of Beaton’s estate and the author ofhis acclaimed biography, has added extensive and fascinating notesthat are as lively as the diary entries themselves. As one Londonreviewer wrote, “Vickers’ waspish footnotes are the salt on theside of the dish.” Beaton treated his other published diaries likehis photographs, endlessly retouching them, but, for this volume,Vickers went back to the original manu*s to find the unediteddiaries.