KL was Creative Director at Chanel for thirty-five years; as seen through glasses darkly. WM, a well known fashion journalist, knew him for many years.
So many of K-S's photographs have been misattributed to Cecil Beaton that she has been neglected. She was admired by Man Ray and Paul Nash; her circle included Cocteau, Connolly and Fonteyn.
Fabric - and our hunger for it - as the mother of invention, the driver behind technology, agriculture, trade, politics, culture... it funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal empire. H... read more