Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation (64 page)

1. Diana,
c
.1915: ‘painted and powdered and dressed (as I hoped) to kill’.

2. Diana in costume for the musical tableau
La Damoiselle Elue
at the French Embassy, London, June 1914.
From left to right:
Felicity Tree, Nancy Cunard, Violet Charteris (Diana’s sister Letty) and Diana.

3. Diana in VAD uniform collecting for a war charity, October 1916.

4. Diana and Duff holidaying in Italy, August 1923.

5. Diana in the London production of
The Miracle
.

6. Diana posing for Iris Tree’s husband, Curtis Moffat, 1925.

7. Front cover of
Blast
, War Issue, July 1915.

8. Nancy as a published poet in 1921, living independently but still using her married name.

9. ‘Miss Nancy Cunard … who admires eccentricities in dress and appearance [and] carries out her ideas with success’.

10.
Nancy working at the Hours Press, late 1920s.

11. Nancy and African bangles, from the Cecil Beaton series, 1929.

12. Tamara – fashion-plate in life, dressed by Marcel Rochas, Paris,
c
.1931.

13. And in art,
Autoportrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti)
, 1929.