VTG Flair Magazine October 1950 At Home and On the Town MCM Arts Decor Entertain

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Vintage Flair Magazine October 1950 At Home and On the TownArt Literature Fashion Home Living Travel EntertainmentIn acceptable condition. Wear to the covers and spine. The front cover is weakly attached to the spine. Many inside pages are separated from the spine. All pages intact. No cutouts.Please see photos for details and email us any questions. Sold as is. Thank you for your interest!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 on Paris, hired Ernest Hemingway to write a travel essay, 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) The spine of some issues touts the variety of topics, “Art Literature Fashion Home Living Travel Entertainment”.