Tag: Harper’s Bazaar

July 3, 2016 / Vickie Lester

Diana Vreeland got her start working for Carmel Snow at Harper’s Bazaar…

July 3, 2016 / Vickie Lester

Carmel Snow, high society gal with an eye for genius, became editor of Harper’s Bazaar, after a stint with Condé Nast at Vogue…

Snow’s genius came from cultivating the best people. Her first big find was art director Alexey Brodovitch, who innovated Bazaar‘s iconic Didot logo. Brodovitch is perhaps best known for his work with Richard Avedon, who, as a young photographer, was so determined to work at Bazaar that he endured the…

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July 3, 2016 / Vickie Lester

Carmel Snow, legendary fashion editor, mixes with Hollywood and goes to the beach with Martin Munkacsi in 1933…

In 1933, editor in chief Carmel Snow (who’d been a fashion editor at Vogue) brought photojournalist Martin Munkacsi to a windswept beach to shoot a swimwear spread. As the model ran toward the camera, Munkacsi took the picture that made fashion-magazine history. Until that moment, nearly all fashion was carefully…

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April 8, 2016 / Vickie Lester

“I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks… he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.”

June 24, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Lauren Bacall makes the cover of Harper’s Bazaar and catches the eye of Howard Hawks in Hollywood…

September 19, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Tag: Harper’s Bazaar

Diana Vreeland got her start working for Carmel Snow at Harper’s Bazaar…

Carmel Snow, high society gal with an eye for genius, became editor of Harper’s Bazaar, after a stint with Condé Nast at Vogue…

Carmel Snow, legendary fashion editor, mixes with Hollywood and goes to the beach with Martin Munkacsi in 1933…

“I was Betty Bacall always. And Lauren was Howard Hawks… he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a Svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.”

Lauren Bacall makes the cover of Harper’s Bazaar and catches the eye of Howard Hawks in Hollywood…

Chic alors! Irving Penn photographs Lisa Fonssagrives…