Cecil Beaton

 Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer,diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.
1929 
Hired by Vogue as contributing photographer.
1937 
Appointed Royal Court photographer.
1940-1945 
During the Second World War Beaton was initially posted to the Ministry of Information and given the task of recording images from the home front. 1942 Beaton was loaned to the Air Ministry for three months to photograph the Middle East, and "The Near East" came out of this in 1943. 
1958 
Wins an oscar for costume design for Gigi. 
1964 
Wins an Oscar for costumes costume design and art direction for My Fair Lady.
1972 
Beaton receives the knighthood.
1980 
Beaton dies at the age of 76.

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 Costume design by Cecil Beaton for Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina (1947).

 Cecil Beaton and Jean Shrimpton at Reddish House, photographed by David Bailey for British Vogue, 1965.

 Charles James ball gowns, photographed by Cecil Beaton for American Vogue, 1948.