be daring

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary".

Sir Cecil Beaton
(1904 –1980) English fashion and portrait photographer

Miss Nancy Beaton as a Shooting Star, 1928

Cecil Beaton - Gertrude Lawrence, 1930

Cecil Beaton, 1946

Models in Charles James gowns photographed at French & Co., New York, 1948.

Cecil Beaton for Vogue's January 1950 issue

Cecil Beaton, 1953

Cecil Beaton for Vogue

Bianca Jagger by Cecil Beaton

Twiggy (Foale and Tuffin Fashion), 1966