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From Cecil Beaton’s coronation portrait via Warhol and Freud to a postcolonial image for the platinum jubilee, artists have shown humanity, politics and fantasy in that famous face
A catalogue of bright young things in furs and frocks that the British photographer and diarist was well placed to capture
An exclusive tour of the legendary aesthete’s house was a dream come true for Luke Edward Hall
The winds of change are blowing and the Royal marriage grows turbulent as Netflix’s show continues
Designer Sarah Burton ‘explodes’ the long, lean silhouette by showcasing the womanly figure
Fashion, while frivolous, has taught us to make-up and mend
The 100,000 photos and negatives in the photographer’s Studio Archive have now been edited into a book that covers his life’s work, introduced by Annie Leibovitz
One of the star lots is Cecil Beaton’s photograph of the painter Lucian Freud and his then-wife, Caroline Blackwood
‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’ at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
This major retrospective will help rescue the great photographer from obscurity
The magical visions of the between-the-wars painter Rex Whistler have their modern-day incarnations
The FT and The Global Fund for Children photography auction 2012 brings together a number of photographic tendencies
The great fashion photographer was also a masterly war artist, as this revelatory exhibition demonstrates
‘Sixty Punk Singles’, a selling exhibition at the Vinyl Factory, is timed to coincide with the jubilee
To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, the artist has created a ‘strong and sexy and strident’ portrait of Elizabeth II for FT Weekend Magazine
A survey of British photography in the latter half of the 20th century fills the Victoria & Albert Museum with thought, talent and feeling
Nobody better understands modern Britain than the Queen and Paul McCartney
Carmen Dell’Orefice has worked with Richard Avedon and Irving Penn and is more in demand at 80 than she was at 20
The former home of Edward and Wallis reveals its own stories of an enigmatic relationship
Four new books look at the work and world of the fashion magazine ‘editrix’
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