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 Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. And her professional partnership with Anna Wintour - with whom she has collaborated for over twenty years - continues to have an astonishing influence on modern style.Beautiful. While two early marriages were brief, her romance with the hairstylist Didier Malige has endured. Friendships bloomed - with Bruce Weber and Calvin Klein, whose offer of a job took Grace to New York. Surviving a serious car-crash, she later became a fashion editor at British Vogue and during the Seventies and the Eighties started to create the fantasy travelogues that would become her trademark. The muse behind Vidal Sassoon's Five Point Cut, she posed for Bailey, Donovan, Duffy and Norman Parkinson in Swinging London and jumped into a pool in Saint-Tropez for Helmut Newton.

Brought up in windswept wartime Anglesey, she arrived in London, aged eighteen, and quickly became a face of the Sixties. Grace's own life has been as dream-like as one of her madcap fashion spreads. Here are the designers, models, photographers, hairstylists, make-up artists and celebrities with whom Grace has created her 'stories in pictures' - whether it be Jerry Hall conquering the USSR or Tom Ford falling down a rabbit hole in Annie Leibovitz's version of Alice in Wonderland. Witty and forthright, and illustrated throughout with vintage photographs and exclusive line-drawings, Grace: A Memoir shares the excitement and vision that go into producing so many unforgettable fashion images.

Overnight, the flame-haired Grace became a heroine for fashion insiders and the general public alike. Then came The September Issue, the behind-the-scenes documentary that turned the spotlight on a woman with a no-nonsense attitude and an unerring visual instinct. This dazzling and beguiling story of fifty years in fashion is the hotly anticipated memoir of the creative genius at Vogue, who featured so prominently in the documentary The September Issue, where she nearly stole Anna Wintour's thunder.įor decades, Grace Coddington's personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue magazine.

Grace by Grace Coddington