Donovan, Carrie

Fashion editor Carrie Donovan was born Carolyn Gertrude Amelia Donovan in 1928. She and her sister Joan grew up in Lake Placid, New York, and lived with their grandparents until 1942, when they joined their mother, Margaret Wood Donovan, who was working in a war production factory in Brooklyn, New York. Captivated by fashion at an early age, Donovan graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1950, and worked as a reporter for the New York Times and later as an editor for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and the New York Times Magazine. One of the first to recognize the talents of Donna Karan, Perry Ellis, and Elsa Paretti, in later years she used her flamboyant tastemaker image in advertisements for Old Navy. Donovan died in New York City in 2001.