Flair Magazine Founding Editor Dies

Fleur Cowles, who started one of the most graphically innovative magazines ever—Flair magazine, published for the full year of 1950—has died in London.  Fleur visited Drake in the 1990s and offered her inimitable insight.  In preparation for the book I was writing, I asked her what magazine she would read  if she could choose only one.  "I would start my own," she said.

Fleur motivated The Telegraph of London to run an unusually cheeky and entertaining obituary. Read it here.

Rest in high fashion, Fleur. (Her name was actually Florence, and she preferred to think she was 92, not 101.)