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Random House
November 2012
On Sale: November 20, 2012
416 pages
ISBN: 0812993357
EAN: 9780812993356
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s
extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as
creative director of Vogue have made her an international
icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind
the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept
secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed
2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a
sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace’s palpable engagement
with her work brought a rare insight into the passion that
produces many of the magazine’s most memorable shoots.
With the witty, forthright voice that has endeared her to
her colleagues and peers for more than forty years, Grace
now creatively directs the reader through the storied
narrative of her life so far. Evoking the time when models
had to tote their own bags and props to shoots, Grace
describes her early career as a model, working with such
world-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman
Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a
fashion editor at British Vogue in the late 1960s. Here she
began creating the fantasy “travelogues” that would become
her trademark. In 1988 she joined American Vogue, where her
breathtakingly romantic and imaginative fashion features, a
sampling of which appear in this book, have become instant
classics.
Delightfully underscored by Grace’s pen-and-ink
illustrations, Grace will introduce readers to the colorful
designers, hairstylists, makeup artists, photographers,
models, and celebrities with whom Grace has created her
signature images. Grace reveals her private world with equal
candor—the car accident that almost derailed her modeling
career, her two marriages, the untimely death of her sister,
Rosemary, her friendship with Harper’s Bazaar
editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis, and her thirty-year romance
with Didier Malige. Finally, Grace describes her abiding
relationship with Anna Wintour, and the evolving mastery by
which she has come to define the height of fashion.
“If Wintour is the Pope . . . Coddington is Michelangelo,
trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel twelve
times a year.”—Time
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