Curator's introduction to Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World

24 Oct 2025 7-8pm

The Second Age of Beauty by Cecil Beaton, British Vogue February 1946 © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd. Condé Nast Archive London.

Overview

Join curator Robin Muir as he introduces the exhibition Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World.

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. 

Hear from Robin about his vision for this exhibition, which exclusively spotlights Beaton’s ground-breaking fashion work, a pivotal aspect of his career that laid the foundation for his later successes.
 

£10 (£8 Members / concessions)

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