Rosemary McGrotha

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Rosemary McGrotha
Born
Rosemary McGrotha

(1958-11-08) November 8, 1958 (age 66)
Tallahassee, Florida, United States [1]
Modeling information
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) [2]
Hair colorBrunette [1]
Eye colorBlue [1]

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

  1. 1 2 3 "Rosemary McGrotha". supermodelicons.com.
  2. ↑ "Rosemary McGrotha". fashionmodeldirectory.com.
  3. ↑ Quick, Harriet (1997). Catwalking : a history of the fashion model. ISBN   978-0-7858-1093-3.
  4. ↑ Karan, Donna (2015). My Journey. Random House Publishing Group. p. 160. ISBN   978-1-101-88350-1.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
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