Cecil Beaton, photographed by Norman Parkinson, 1972 Beaton was a multi-hyphenate: war, fashion and portrait photographer; costume designer, painter and so on. Sartorially, he had impeccable – and exacting – taste in suits. As Newman notes, in 1965, he complained that Savile Row, ‘to coin a banal phrase’, needed to ‘get with it’.

Photograph: Norman Parkinson/Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore