Dandy at Dusk

Philip Mann chronicles the relationship of dandyism and the emerging cultural landscape of modernity via portraits of Regency England''s Beau Brummel – the first dandy – and six twentieth-century figures: Austrian architect Adolf Loos, the Duke of Windsor, neo-Edwardian courtier Bunny Roger, writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp, French film producer Jean-Pierre Melville, and New German Cinema enfant...