Clodagh Finn: Carmel Snow, the Irish Anna Wintour who reshaped US fashion
Carmel Snow was a tenacious and supremely talented woman who transformed US fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar.
Carmel Snow, the influential Irish woman who transformed US fashion magazine , was born Carmel White in Dalkey in 1887. Had she been a fan of the double-barrel name, she would have become Carmel Snow-White.
I love that quirky if little-quoted fact, not least because it shows our insistence on shoehorning trailblazing women, such as Carmel and the in-the-news phenomenon that is Anna Wintour, into fairytale stereotypes. Women with power, influence and fearsome reputations are no Snow Whites, of course; they are cast as cartoonish wicked women.
