Dead Celebrity Alert

Carrie Donovan, a fashion editor who could easily have rested on her laurels and leopard skins but came out of semiretirement to find a new and even more enthusiastic audience as ”the lady from Old Navy,” died yesterday in Manhattan. She was 73.

She had been ailing for several months, said George O’Brien, a friend, and died at New York Weill Cornell Center.

From the beginning, Ms. Donovan’s career had a screwball quality worthy of Hollywood. Though she studied dressmaking at the Parsons School of Design, she could never master a needle and thread. She lacked a similar command of automobiles and typewriters, and as a reporter for The New York Times, then as an editor for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine, she wrote all her copy by hand. … Read full obituary

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