Style Books Everyone Should Own #2: Grace Coddington
Remember the fabulous, formidable flame-haired Fashion Editor in The September Issue? This is her book. Grace Coddington, Creative Director of American Vogue and right hand woman to Anna Wintour is one of fashion's most interesting, prolific and respected players. A true taste-maker, her editorials have created trends and iconic images over the last three decades. From her early modelling days with Norman Parkinson, to having her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon, kissing Mick Jagger and moving to New York, the book chronicles her time in London when the fashion scene was exploding.
The more contemporary chapters are much tamer – presumably because she still works at the pointy end of the fashion plane and likes her job – but still provides an intimate look at her two marriages and romance with Didier Malige, the untimely death of her sister, Rosemary, and good friend, Harper’s Bazaar Editor-in-Chief, Liz Tilberis, and her long-standing relationship with Anna Wintour. It’s a fascinating peek into the mind of one of the world's great stylists peppered with Grace’s own illustrations and photographs.
“ ”They could be pretty bitchy, those fashion-mad French girls. I would never dare talk back to them. For me, the French were always so superior in matters of style. England was cool but never chic.” ”
CLICK TO BUY: Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington.