Carmel Snow

Early life She was born in St Justin's, Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland to Peter White, a merchant tailor, and Annie Meyne. After her father's death from pneumonia on April 7, 1893, Condé Nast subsequently offered her the job of assistant fashion editor. Also in 1926, she married George Palen Snow, while wearing a gown of cream white satin trimmed with seed pearls and old Burano lace that had been in her family for many years. She later had three daughters; it was rumored that one of them had schizophrenia, but this diagnosis has not been confirmed. In 1929 her brother Tom White became general manager of the Hearst publishing organization. In 1947 she exclaimed, "It's such a new look!" or "Your dresses have such a new look!", thus coining that phrase regarding Christian Dior's 1947 collection. Snow died in 1961, while she was working with her long-time collaborator Mary Louis Aswell on her memoir, The World of Carmel Snow. The book was published posthumously. == Legacy ==

As to why Carmel's reputation faded, while Vreeland's did not, photographer Richard Avedon (quoted in a 2005 biography of Carmel by Penelope Rowlands) said: "She was older, right? and she died before stardom was the thing." == Portrayal ==

She was portrayed by Glenn Close in the television series The New Look. ==Further reading==