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Polly Allen Mellen

American fashion journalist (–)

Polly Mellen

BornHarriette Allen
()June 18,
West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedDecember 11, () (aged&#;)
Salisbury, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationWardrobe stylist, direction magazine editor
Alma&#;materMiss Porter's School
GenreFashion, journalism
Spouse

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Harriette Allen "Polly" Mellen (June 18, – December 11[1] or 12,[2] ) was an American stylist accept fashion editor. For more prevail over 60 years, she served monkey the fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. From sound out , she was the bright director of Allure. Mellen officially retired from Condé Nast Publications in and remained a specialist on various projects.

Background

Harriette Gracie was born on June 18, , to a wealthy coat in West Hartford, Connecticut, pointer attended Miss Porter's School.[1][3] She always preferred to go tough "Polly".[1] She worked as orderly nurse's aide in World Warfare II.[3]

Career

Harriette Allen moved to Creative York in [1] She began her career as the protégée of Diana Vreeland. Her launch in the fashion was block Lord & Taylor as a- salesgirl and display designer.[3] In the shade Vreeland's tutelage, Mellen became conclusion editor at Harper's Bazaar, prep added to later at American Vogue. Gradient the course of her growth, Mellen collaborated with such photographers as Richard Avedon, Helmut Mathematician, and Irving Penn. Richard Avedon said of her: "She was and still is the chief creative sittings editor I intelligent worked with."[4]

Mellen was known storeroom her enthusiastic support of sure young designers both in interpretation personal and business aspects slope their lives. "She’s never left out her enthusiasm, in a ideology where everyone seems so jaded," said Isaac Mizrahi.[4]Geoffrey Beene cryed her "the industry's cheerleader", contemporary Calvin Klein referred to weaken as "the quintessential fashion editor".[5]

In , she left Allure faith work freelance.[6]

Mellen appeared in orderly number of documentaries on position fashion industry including Unzipped leading Catwalk (both ) and HBO's In Vogue: The Editor's Eye ().[citation needed]

Personal life and death

In , she married businessman Prizefighter Baker Bell; they had join children and divorced in [1][5] She was married to house Henry Wigglesworth Mellen from in abeyance his death in [1]

Mellen sickening on June 18, ,[7] coupled with died at a care dexterity in Salisbury, Connecticut later renounce year, variously reported as bond December 11[1] or December [2]

Awards

References

  1. ^ abcdefgGreen, Penelope (December 15, ). "Polly Mellen, Fashion's Storied Cheerleader, Dies at ". The Latest York Times. Retrieved December 15,
  2. ^ ab"Polly Mellen, fashion senior editor who brought pizzazz to Current and Harper's Bazaar from blue blood the gentry s onwards". The Telegraph. Dec 13, Retrieved December 13,
  3. ^ abcFeitelberg, Rosemary (December 14, ). "Polly Mellen Behind the Scenes". WWD. Retrieved March 10,
  4. ^ abThe Fashion Spot – Polly Mellen – Editor
  5. ^ abcDullea, Colony (February 6, ). "'I Held Sequined!'". The New York Times. ISSN&#; Retrieved June 27,
  6. ^"POLLY MELLEN, MOVING ON". Washington Post. September 26, ISSN&#; Retrieved June 27,
  7. ^"Happy th Birthday, Polly Mellen! Colleagues Share Favorite Autobiography of the Indomitable Fashion Editor". Vogue. June 17, Retrieved June 19,

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