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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Hardcover
- Signed By
- Penelope Rowlands
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- Yes
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780743480451
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Atria Books
ISBN-10
0743480457
ISBN-13
9780743480451
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46582596
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dash of Daring : Carmel Snow and Her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, General
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
41 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-053637
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
070.51
Table Of Content
Contents Preface 1 Chippendale and Cottage 2 The Steamer Trunk 3 Miss White of Vogue 4 An Elegant Life 5 Changing Sides 6 Reinventing Harper's Bazaar 7 Assembling the Team 8 Parallel Lives 9 Descending Into War 10 Bazaar Ascendant 11 "Seeing and Feeling Everything" 12 New Faces, New Names 13 Triumphing Over All 14 Ideal Daughters 15 Being Eclipsed 16 Into The Irish Mist 17 Lighter Than Air 18 Carmel Snow Lives Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Photo credits
Synopsis
An extraordinary woman of the 20th century whose stewardship of "Harper's Bazaar" helped to redefine fashion journalism, Carmel Snow lived larger than life. This compelling portrait of the fashion world and its golden era includes untold stories of the colorful and the glamorous., 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 Bazaarfrom 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 Bazaarwhich, 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 Bazaarin 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 Daringis a compelling portrait of the fashion world during a golden era., The definitive biography of Carmel Snow, one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century, whose stewardship of Harper's Bazaar helped to redefine fashion journalism., Carmel Snow lived larger than life - she dressed to perfection, was fond of dramatic pronouncements, and had a savage passion for discovering creative genius. It is fitting, then, that her career at the helm of Harper's Bazaar forever changed the face of fashion magazine publishing. Early in the twentieth century, when the typical fashion magazine was narrowly concerned with dressing well, Snow's progressive editorial vision included art, fiction, photography and reportage. Along the way, she launched the careers of would-be legends, including Andy Warhol, Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote and Christian Dior. A Dash of Daring chronicles the extraordinary life of Carmel Snow on both sides of the Atlantic, beginning in nineteenth-century Ireland and continuing on to Paris, Milan and New York City, the fashion capitals of the world. A Dash of Daring is a compelling portrait of the fashion world during a golden era.
LC Classification Number
PN4874.S57R68 2005
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