Cecil Beatons Fashionable World review - a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker

National Portrait Gallery, London The King of Vogue was a desperate social climber and the world on view here seems constricted and parochial. Still, his backdrops are fabulous - usually more interesting than his subjectsAt the entrance to the National Portrait Gallerys new Cecil Beaton exhibition, theres a wall-sized reproduction of a 1948 colour transparency, originally printed in Vogue. In it, eight coiffed white women wear elegant evening gowns by designer Charles James, chatting and preenin...