The photoshoot that made history
If you’re tired of surprise quizzes, Bailey, you’re tired of life. He just sort of grunts, which I take as assent, and so I go for it.
In preparation for today, I tell him, and the BBC’s forthcoming one-off drama We’ll Take Manhattan (which explores the love affair between Bailey and Jean Shrimpton via their dazzling Vogue photoshoot in New York in 1962), I’ve read Jean Shrimpton’s autobiography, and am going to read out some of the things she says about you to see if you concur.