Beaton & Vogue

Finally Beaton's hard work is paid off. In the 1930's Cecil photographed the Duke and Duchess of Kent and then in 1937 Wallis Simpson asked him to take the formal wedding photographs on the day before she married the Duke of Windsor. 

Cecil went to work for American Vogue in 1934. 

Cecil Beaton, Vogue 1936

As time went on he felt that Vogue was restricting his creativity. For example, Vogue told Beaton that he was posing models in an un-lady like fashion by taking pictures of models with their feet planted far apart. 

 Then in 1938 Beaton's career took a turn for the worst. In the 1938 issue of Vogue Beaton wrote Anti Semitic words into the border of a pen and ink sketch. The words he wrote were...

"Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty kikes in town."

There were 150,00 copies of that issue of Vogue on newsstands and 130,000 copies were reprinted. After that Beaton resigned and didn't work in the United States for a year and a half. 

Beaton, C., & Vickers, H.  (2003). The unexpurgated Beaton: the Cecile Beaton diaries as he wrote them, 1970-1980. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Beaton, C. (1936). Retrieved from http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/cecil-beaton

Hall-Duncan, N. (2014). Cecil Beaton. Retrieved from http://fashion-history.lovetoknow.com/fashion-clothing-industry/fashion-designers/cecil-beaton