Carmel Snow, who changed the course of our culture by launching the
careers of some of today's greatest figures in fashion and the
arts, was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth
century. As editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958
she championed the concept of "a well-dressed magazine for the
well-dressed mind," bringing cutting-edge art, fiction,
photography, and reportage into the American home. Now comes A Dash
of Daring, a first and definitive biography of this
larger-than-life figure in publishing, art, and letters. Veteran
magazine journalist Penelope Rowlands describes the remarkable
places Snow frequented and the people whose lives she transformed,
among them Richard Avedon, Diana Vreeland, Geoffrey Beene, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Cristobal Balenciaga, Lauren Bacall, and Truman
Capote. She chronicles Snow's life on both sides of the Atlantic,
beginning in nineteenth-century Ireland and continuing to Paris,
Milan, and New York City, the fashion capitals of the world. Snow
was the daughter of an Irish immigrant, who was herself a
forward-thinking businesswoman, and she worked in her mother's
custom dressmaking shop before being discovered by the magazine
publisher Conde Nast and training under Edna Woolman Chase, the
famous longtime editor of Vogue. From there it was on to Harper's
Bazaar which, with the help of such key employees as Avedon,
Vreeland, and art director Alexei Brodovitch, Snow turned into the
most admired magazine of the century. Among the disparate talents
who worked at Bazaar in the Snow era were Andy Warhol, the heiress
Doris Duke, Maeve Brennan, and members of the storied Algonquin
Round Table. Overflowing with previously untold stories of the
colorful and glamorous, A Dash of Daring is a compelling portrait
of the fashion world during a golden era.
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