Fleur Cowles' Flair Magazine #9 - October, 1950 “At Home And On The Town” Calder

Contents Call Me [Ethel] Merman by Price, Madame Valentina; The New Society in Crime, The Real Pearle Mesta by Eleanor Roosevelt, Altamont, Reflection on Parties, How to Avoid a Square Stomach by Roger Price, etc. Fashions by B. H. Wragge, Hattie Carnegie, Fratti, Maximilian, Coro, Capezio, Traina-Norell, Balenciaga, Jacques Fath (Rene Gruau illustrations). Reflections on parties. MONTH/ YEAR: October 1950 VOLUME: 1 EDITION #: 9. The "At Home And On The Town" Issue. Publisher: Cowles Measures 25 x 33cms 10 " x 13 " Condition: Acceptable. Spine intact. An inner booklet has not been removed from the pages.. Flair was the first magazine that became an art form. It was the first magazine to include mini cutouts and fold-outs attached inside. It was also the first magazine to include scented editions, suffusing the paper included in the Rose issue with rose-scented perfume, (some four decades before scent strips became ubiquitous) Flair existed for only one year and twelve issues, from February 1950 to January 1951. ************ I do my best to catalog any flaws I find in the description of the item. Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat food If interested in my photography work simply use a search engine and type in the name Star Foreman