A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life In Fashion, Art, and Letters by Penelope Rowlands - 2005

Atria, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing, Fine in generally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated endpapers. 559 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Cramel Snow was editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958. SDhe changed the course of our culture by launching the careers of some of the greatest figures in fashion and the arts, championing the concept of "well-dressed women with well-dressed minds". This work is the first and the definitive biography Snow, describing the remarkable places she frequented and the prople whose lives she transformed, among them Richard Avedon, Diana Vreeland, Geoffrey Beene, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Cristobalk Balenciaga, Lauren Bacall, and Truman Capote.