Sally Kirkland (1 July 1912 – 1 May 1989) was a manager at Lord & Taylor, a fashion editor at Vogue and the only fashion editor at Life for 25 years.
Born as Sarah Phinney in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of Col. Robert Phinney. She had one brother Robert Phinney, Jr., who was a Vice President of Braniff. She married Frederic McMichael Kirkland, the son of a wealthy Pennsylvania Main Line family; their only child was the actress Sally Kirkland, her mother's namesake.[1]
She put Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Faye Dunaway and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Life magazine as fashion icons. She was one of a "trio of formidable and colorful women" the other two being: Mary Letherbee, movie editor; and Mary Hamman, modern living editor.[2] Together they led the "back of the book" at LIFE and were given free rein by Ed Thompson as managing editor and later editor in chief.
She died of emphysema, aged 76, at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City.[3]
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