Saturday, March 15, 2008

Carmel Snow

After working briefly in T.M. And JM Fox, a well-known concern of clothing in Manhattan that was owned by her mother, the snow was working as a fashion editor at American Vogue in 1921 and joined Harper's Bazaar 11 years later. She famously described his goal in the last publication as creating a magazine for "well-dressed women with well-dressed mind." His influence, both in magazines went far beyond fashion Feature: led vanguard of art, fiction, photography, and reporting in the house of America.
Snow is gifted in the discovery of new talent, as well as the promotion of new avenues of exploration among artists previously established. In the 1920's, he worked closely with Edward Steichen, already a world-renowned photographer, helping them to apply their talents to fashion photography, which he did with great effect, in 1930.
In 1932, it hired Martin Munkacsi, the great Hungarian photographer, to take his first shot fashion, she brought him and the woman - a model Lucile Brokaw wind, the beach and autumnal, in the course of an afternoon, created Munkacsi history, should be raised with the first shot outdoors fashion and photographs on the move - a revolutionary act.

Snow recruited his famous art director Alexey Brodovitch, based on an exhibition of his work in graphic design, fashion and found the editor, Diana Vreeland, after realizing it, his estimable chic, dancing in a crowded room. Among the three of them, the snow, Brodovitch, Vreeland and Harper's Bazaar become the most admired journal of the last century. Among the now-household names whose careers are encouraged Snow: Andy Warhol, Maeve Brennan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, Cecil Beaton, Christian Dior (1947 debut collection nicknamed her new image), Christopher Balenciaga, Carson McCullers, Kenneth Tynan, and many others. Lauren Bacall also discovered and put on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, an act which brought the model unknown to the attention of Hollywood.
Snow once famously said, "Elegance is good taste and a dash of daring." Saying that she lived in all aspects of his professional life, until his forced retirement of Bazaar, when she was in her seventies. His position as editor in chief took over her niece Nancy White.

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