Grace Coddington

Michael Roberts

Grace Coddington's celebration of fashion has danced along its cutting edge for over 30 years. Abandoning a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, Coddington signed on in 1968 as a junior fashion editor at British "Vogue." She quickly established herself on the other side of the camera, coordinating photo shoots with David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and the eccentric Guy Bourdin. A close working relationship with royal photographer Norman Parkinson produced a series of startlingly vibrant location shoots that have come to be considered classics. At British "Vogue," Coddington also introduced the sweeping narrative epic, a familiar feature of her work nowadays at American "Vogue," where she has been creative director for the past 14 years. "GRACE: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue" is not only a collection of Coddington's greatest work, it is a visual reminiscence of her life in fashion.

Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue

Grace

Grace Coddington, the passionate and flame-haired doyenne of fashion. It is said that she has the knack of being in the right place at the right time; that she can predict a trend; turn a piece of clothing into a best-seller which flies off the racks; spot the most talented new photographers, and break out models who epitomize the look of the moment. What is certainly true is that clothes inspire Grace to tell stories; and she has told hundreds of them over the 50 years she has spent in the fashion industry with pictures realised in careful collaborations. And now, here, she tells her own story. Beginning in wartime Anglesey, Grace: A Memoir follows her trajectory from London in the swinging Sixties, to Paris at the start of the ready-to-wear revolution, and on to America in the late 1980's when the era of power-dressing and the supermodel began, and the centre of gravity in the fashion world shifted from Europe to the US. More than simply a memoir, this is a cultural history of the last half century, populated by the beautiful people - the models, actors, designers and photographers who make up Grace's world. Along the way Grace shares her forthright views on everything from plastic surgery, cats, photography in the digital era and the nature of beauty.

A Memoir

Rebeca Keren Nuñez

Visualmente es muy hermoso, y eso es lo que esperaba de él, al ser la biografía y compendio de los trabajos de Grace Coddington en Vogue. Me encanto saber más de ella, de sus inicios, de cómo ha sido su carrera, y también cosas de su vida personal. Claramente también me encanto saber más de su relación con Anna. El trabajo de Grace me encanta y me encanta Vogue, si ustedes también, se los recomiendo.

An influential creative director of American Vogue magazine traces her decades in the fashion industry, recounting her early years as a model under the tutelage of Norman Parkinson, unexpected rise to fame and associations with numerous fashion luminaries, including a young Wintour.

Grace Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue

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