This handsome young man is Donald Wyndham, a close friend of both Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote. When not busy with those two, he was a novelist in his own right. His long term lover was Sandy Campbell who was also photographed by George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa.
All the names you mention were a little coterie of avant garde innovation. What a colossal influence they had. The Brooks Brothers buttoned down collar is very then. A buttoned collar is very American, quite alien to traditional English fashion. We used to be able to spot the American visitors to the City way back when, but then, the English traders were still wearing bowler hats. Goodness knows what they're all in these days - probably polyester shell suits.
ReplyDeleteSo true. They were the glitterati of the intellectual set.
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