The Best of Flair.
* Edited by Fleur Cowles * Rizzoli * $250Like 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 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, 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.
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| Title Annotation: | Review |
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| Author: | Stockwell, Anne |
| Publication: | The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) |
| Article Type: | Book Review |
| Geographic Code: | 1USA |
| Date: | Oct 26, 1999 |
| Words: | 148 |
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