Rosemary McGrotha
Rosemary McGrotha | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rosemary McGrotha November 8, 1958 Tallahassee, Florida, United States[2] |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1] |
| Hair color | Brunette[2] |
| Eye color | Blue[2] |
Rosemary McGrotha (born November 8, 1958, in Tallahassee, Florida, United States) is an American fashion model. A reoccurring model for the Donna Karan brand, McGrotha appears in almost all of the TV and print ads in the 1980s and early 1990s.[3] She was referred to as the "career woman ideal" and in her memoirs Karan said she was cast as her "alter ego".[4] McGrotha appeared in a popular 1992 ad campaign for Donna Karan called "In Women We Trust", where she portrayed the President of the United States.[5][6] She regularly worked with fashion photographers: Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Gilles Bensimon, and Denis Piel. [7]
References
- ^ "Rosemary McGrotha". fashionmodeldirectory.com.
- ^ a b c "Rosemary McGrotha". supermodelicons.com.
- ^ Quick, Harriet (1997). Catwalking : a history of the fashion model. ISBN 978-0-7858-1093-3.
- ^ Karan, Donna (2015). My Journey. Random House Publishing Group. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-101-88350-1.
- ^ Cauterucci, Christina (2016-09-01). "Elie Tahari's new ad campaign imagines a female president showing off her cleavage". Slate.com. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
- ^ Huber, Mellissa; Godtsenhoven, Karen Van (2023). Women Dressing Women: A Lineage of Female Fashion Design. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-58839-720-1.
- ^ Borrelli-Persson, Laird (2016-07-25). "That's Ms. POTUS. Model Rosemary McGrotha on Playing President in Donna Karan's Prescient 1992 Campaign". Vogue. Retrieved 2025-10-27.