The cover of this Centenary issue of fashion magazine Queen is based on a fashion plate originally published in an 1800's issue of Queen - these fashion prints were imported from France at the time. This issue celebrates the best of Queen over the past 100 years, and there are different sections for each decade, highlighting important events in literature, technology, world affairs and fashion throughout history.
Mark Boxer is the art director, Beatrix Miller the editor, Francis Wyndham the literary director, John Hedgecoe the Staff Photographer, Jocelyn Stevens the owner/EIC and Norman Parkinson, Drusilla Beyfus and Quentin Crewe are the associate editors of this edition.
Contents -
Norman Parkinson photographs the collections in Paris. Beautiful editorial. Models wear designs by Lanvin Castillo, Dior, Nina Ricci, Michel Goma, Charles Jourdan etc over 10 pages of both colour and black & white full bleed plates.
Ian Fleming is interviewed, along with Sybille Bedford, Elizabeth Jane Howard, John Mortimer, Alan Sillitoe, Penelope Mortimer, Laurie Lee, Stephen Potter, Robert Bedford in 'Writers in the tense present' - several page Q&A format, 6 questions are posed to each author, such as "What three living writers do you think have, or will have (in this decade) the most impact (a) on you, (b) on society"?
Eric Stemp full page colour illustration of a Brioni suit and tie for a feature on the opening of the Menswear department at the Woollands store in London.
Shirley Thompson fashion illustrations, 2 pages, several drawings on each.
George Melly writes a feature about the jazz world, 2 pages.
Fashion and portrait photography throughout by Hedgecoe and Peter Williams etc
Also - Full page adverts for Mary Quant, Jaeger, Peter Robinson, Rayne shoes and more. CECIL KING, DRUSILLA BEYFUS, FRANK FOULKES, JOAN PRICE, JOHN DONALDSON, JOHN GLASHAN full page drawing, JOHN HEDGECOE, WILLIAM and SANDRA MOON, WOOLLANDS and more.
