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The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Cecil Beaton

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Cecil Beaton
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 14
Died: 1980
Died: January 18
Autobiographer
Costume Designer
Diarist
Fashion Photographer
Illustrator
Painter
Photographer
Scenographer
War Photographer
London
England
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
Sir Cecil Beaton
Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
Cecil Beaton (Sir)
Walter Hardy
Fashionable
Truly
Beyond
Fashion
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