Description
Vintage Flair Magazine October 1950 At Home and On the Town
Art Literature Fashion Home Living Travel Entertainment
This Flair Magazine October 1950 is in acceptable to good 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 are intact. No cutouts.
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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 the city of 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)
The spine of some issues touts the variety of topics, “Art Literature Fashion Home Living Travel Entertainment”.