Fleur Cowles and the Making of Flair, History’s Most Beautiful Magazine
Eye on Design
MAY 20, 2022
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published in issue #4 of Eye on Design magazine. Most women married to rich men hope for a yacht or racehorses or more jewels,” the legendary editor Fleur Cowles, then 88 years old, wrote in her 1996 memoir, She Made Friends and Kept Them. But what I secretly longed for was the opportunity to create a ‘magazine-jewel’ which would reflect the real me.”.
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