First lady of fashion …

… Queen of Harper’s Bazaar – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Carmel Snow. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

To appeal, as she said, to the “well-dressed mind”, she commissioned stories from Truman Capote, Colette, Katherine Anne Porter and Evelyn Waugh, among many other literary greats, and published photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Man Ray.