Description
Vintage Flair Magazine March 1950 – Art Literature Fashion Home Living Travel Entertainment
In good condition. Wear to the covers and spine. Pages 7 – 26 have separated from the spine. All pages are present, with no cutouts.
History of Fleur Cowles (editor) and Flair:
Fleur Cowles was an American cultural figure of the times who was married to the publisher of Look magazine. She helped him reinvent Look from its lowbrow origins and make it respectable among that all-powerful consumer demographic, postwar American women.
During Flair’s run, she had an entire issue about Paris, hired Ernest Hemingway to write a travel essay, and commissioned Colette to gossip about her love affairs. She also featured Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, W. H. Auden, Gloria Swanson, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jean Cocteau. In Flair’s debut issue, published in February 1950, “an article on the 28-year-old Lucian Freud came liberally accompanied with reproductions of his art – the first ever to appear in America. It was short-lived (14 issues) and covered a variety of interesting topics, “Art Literature Fashion Home Living Travel Entertainment.”