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Carmel Snow, born Carmel White (1887 – 1961) was the editor-in-chief of the American edition of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958; she also served as the chair of that magazine's editorial board.

She was named after Our Lady of Mount Carmel. She was born in Dublin, but she and her mother moved to New York when Carmel was a child. Her father Peter White caught pneumonia and died on April 7, 1893, before this move.

In 1903 Carmel finished in a convent in Brussels; the Soeurs de Sainte- Marie is where she mastered her understanding of French.

In 1921 Carmel was offered the job of assistant fashion editor at Vogue by Condé Nast. In 1926 she was appointed as fashion editor at Vogue.

Also in 1926 she married George Palen Snow; she wore a gown of cream white satin trimmed with seed pearls and old Burano lace that had been in her family for many years. She had three daughters; it was suggested that one of her children suffered from schizophrenia but this was not confirmed.

In 1929 her brother Tom White became general manager of the Hearst publishing organization. Though Carmel had promised Condé Nast she would not take a job there, she did take a job at Harper's Bazaar. She famously described her goal at Harper's Bazaar as creating a magazine for "well-dressed women with well-dressed minds".

She discovered Martin Munkacsi, and in 1933 persuaded him to photograph the December edition’s ‘Palm Beach’ bathing suit editorial. For this editorial, he had the model run toward the camera while he photographed, which was the first instance of a fashion model being photographed in motion.

Carmel became editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar in 1934.

Also in 1934, she attended an Art Directors Club of New York exhibition where she discovered Alexey Brodovitch, referring to his exhibition as a revelation, describing "pages that bled beautifully, cropped photographs, typography and design that were bold and interesing".

In 1936 she asked Diana Vreeland to work at Harper's Bazaar, as she was impressed with Vreeland's clothing style.

In 1947 she exclaimed, "It's such a New Look!", thus coining that phrase in regard to Christian Dior's 1947 collection.

Carmel was in the process of writing her autobiography when she passed away in 1961.

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