The Best of Flair.* Edited by Fleur Cowles Fleur Fenton Cowles Meyer (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1910), an American writer and editor best known as the creative force behind the short-lived but fabled Flair magazine. Personal Cowles was born Fleur Fenton in Boston, Massachusetts. * Rizzoli * $250 Like that one love affair you'll never get over, Flair magazine lasted only a year. But what a year! Each month from February 1950 to January 1951, editor and creator Fleur Cowles hit America's newsstands with a dazzling words-and-pictures melange mé·lange also me·lange n. A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes" Howard Kaplan. that was as much an art object as it was a magazine. Flair preceded--by nearly five decades--such hip '90s publications as Visionaire. And Cowles's list of contributors was a namedropper's delight: Jean Cocteau, Simone de Beauvoir Noun 1. Simone de Beauvoir - French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986) Beauvoir , Lucian Freud, Salvador Dali, Tennessee Williams. Flair couldn't be launched today; costs would be too high. But Rizzoli International Publications has brought Cowles and her extravagant brainchild back in The Best of Flair, a boxed coffee-table gem edited by Cowles herself, who's still going strong at age--well, what does age matter? Dominick Dunne adds a foreword to a volume that offers a tree magazine lover's debauch de·bauch v. de·bauched, de·bauch·ing, de·bauch·es v.tr. 1. a. To corrupt morally. b. To lead away from excellence or virtue. 2. . |
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