Hamish Bowles

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright Young Things to the front lines of war to the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue and then onto the Queen's official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of the twentieth century.

Donyale Luna was the first Black model to grace the cover of both Harper's Bazaar (1965) and Vogue (1966). This film chronicles her remarkable life and career in which she broke barriers in the fashion industry, worked with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí, among others, and influenced culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s before her untimely death at age 33.