Bright young things

The Daily Mail, it seems, was the paper that first coined the label Bright Young People. Were it not for a handful of novels - Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies in particular - they would be known only as a freak show, a quaint footnote to a social era. Do they really deserve to be resurrected?

Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Georgia Sitwell, William Walton, Stephen Tennant, Teresa Jungman, and Zita Jungman. Photographed by Cecil Beaton. Andrew Graham-Dixon set the stage in his Sunday Telegraph review of the 2006 Rex Whistler exhibition at the Brighton Museum. "October 1927 Cecil Beaton contrived a photograph of “the bright young things”, as they styled themselves, to which he gave the laconic title On The Bridge, Wilsford. Seven young men and women pose for the camera, all dressed up…

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Photograph by Cecil Beaton 1930 The generation that came of age in the aftermath of the First World War and the Spanish Flu did a lot more than just bob their hair and drink all the time. Well, they did do those things too, but let’s take a closer look at those party animals of the roaring 20s a

Michael Sheen as Miles Maitland (Bright Young Things, 2003)