Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]
… figure, later writers such as Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly and Charles Baudelaire turned him into a mythical icon. People > Fashion Keywords Celebrity Clubs Dandy Fashion Wit Until today, George Bryan ‘Beau’ Brummell (1778-1840) is credited with being the first, the ‘Ur’-dandy. … his epigrammatic and often insolent sayings. He enjoyed immense power for over twenty years, from the time he joined the fashionable Tenth Regiment in 1794 up to his final departure from England in 1816. Like the fop, the buck, and the …
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