The Beaton exhibition was HUGE proving the lure of this enigmatic geniusFull of gossip about the stars and villains of the Sixties - Mick Jagger, Greta Garbo, Chanel.'He is seen taking a last fling at life, trying mescaline in New York, hanging out with The Rolling Stones, falling out of love with an ageing and grumpy Greta Garbo and gasping at the assurance of Barbra Streisand as he worked on the costumes for Funny Girl.the account of Rip Van with it - the nickname coined for him by Cyril Connolly - exploring Morocco with the Rolling Stones is alone worth the price of the book' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times'Hugo Vickers has edited the diaries quite brilliantly, allotting most space to those characters - Chanel, Garbo, Picasso, Streisand, Jagger - who still ring a bell, and providing absorbing and often very comical footnotes for those who do not.Beaton in the Sixties stands as a unique memorial to the Swinging Sixties' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday.