Bright Young Things
Photography: Matt Hind
During the inter-war years writers like Evelyn Waugh satirised the combination of frenetic indulgence and fading decadence of the English nobility in his second novel Vile Bodies (1930). The Bright Young Things on whom he focused are partly explained in Stein and Hemingway’s post WWI, ‘lost generation’ and yet also might be seen through the lens of the empire, on which the sun would never set, fast reaching twilight. It wasn’t just the clubs of Mayfair that became the stage on which this extravagant theatre was played-out, but the great houses that adorn this Sceptred Isle, that Waugh went on to characterise in his 1945 work Brideshead Revisited. In historical terms the real cast of characters of this period included the Mitford sisters, Stephen Tennant, Edith Sitwell and even Waugh himself. In this evocation of the period, photographer Matt Hind brings together a group of dedicated revivalists at Bayfield Hall and Sennowe Park in the picturesque region of North Norfolk. An extraordinary production and level of attention to detail that came from both the participants and Mr Kenny Ho, fashion stylist.
Cast: Martin, Debbie, Westly, Diane and Lizzy.
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