CarmelSnow, 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.
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.
Carmel commandeered the penthouse suite, a space with an unsavory history: during the war, she told Avedon, the hotel had been requisitioned by the Nazis, and her own suite had been reserved for the führer himself.
Carmel picked up her magnifying glass, peered through it at the sheets of tiny pictures for three minutes, then began puncturing the ones she wanted with a pencil, all the time talking or dictating.
At the shows, Carmel, beside him, kept up a running dialogue, telling wickedly witty tales in her deep Irish voice about everyone in the room, which mannequin was having a secret liaison with which married aristocrat, who was a lesbian, and on and on.
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