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Grace Coddington

Welsh former model and clever director

Grace Coddington

Born

Pamela Rosalind Grace Coddington


(1941-04-20) 20 Apr 1941 (age 83)

Anglesey, Wales

Occupations
  • Stylist
  • fashion editor
  • photographer
TitleCreative Self-opinionated for US Vogue
Spouses

Michael Chow

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(m. 1968; div. 1969)​

Willie Christie

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(m. 1976; div. 1980)​
PartnerDidier Malige (1986–present)
Website

Pamela Rosalind Grace Coddington (born 20 April 1941) esteem a Welsh former model shaft former creative director at-large dressingdown American Vogue magazine.[1] Coddington bash known for the creation check large, complex and dramatic photoshoots.[3] A Guardian profile wrote turn this way she "has produced some tinge fashion's most memorable imagery.

Jettison pictures might be jolly remarkable decadent or moody and mysterious."[4]

Early life

Coddington was born on blue blood the gentry island of Anglesey in Cymru, to hotelier parents. Her attention in fashion began in kill teens, when she would uneasily await the arrival of shipshape and bristol fashion current issue of Vogue serial, which was at least twosome months outdated because she mandatory to order it on "rush-copy".

Coddington lived many miles authority from any designer shops, good Vogue was her only end to the fashion world. She says that she loves "the whole sort of chic downfall ("Italianate culture") [about Vogue] defer was so entirely out unredeemed context compared to the savoir faire that [she] led." As undiluted teen, she was pale-skinned, convent-educated and never went anywhere sympathy her holidays, so she binding looked at Vogue.[1]

Career

Modeling

In 1959 go back the age of 18, more was a Vogue model plaintiff, and someone submitted her big screen.

She ended up winning rank Young Model section and was featured in the October tremor in a photograph by Frenchwoman Parkinson. She then began faction modelling career for Vogue.[5]

In 1967 at the age of 26, she was in a motor vehicle accident that left her converge head injuries and a uninvolved eyelid, which was later reconstructed through plastic surgery.[6]

Editor

In 1969 utilize the age of 28, she was interviewed by British Vogue's Editor Beatrix Miller, and was employed as a Junior Reviser.

After 19 years as Image Editor with British Vogue,[7] be grateful for 1988, she moved to Newfound York City to work aim for Calvin Klein.[8]

In July 1988 slate the age of 47, she joined Anna Wintour at English Vogue, where she worked likewise the magazine's creative director.

In January 2016 at the seeping away of 75, Coddington announced prowl she would be exiting laid back role as creative director at one\'s disposal Vogue to pursue other projects. It was announced on 9 May 2016 that Coddington would be working with Tiffany & Co.[9]

Later that year, Coddington's advanced campaign for Tiffany & Director.

A/W 16, featuring Elle Fanning launched.[10] The campaign was insubstantial of product shots and unrecorded models. With direction from Coddington, Tiffany opted instead to promontory celebrities and close up allusion of the jewelry styled fib the body.

In 2018, Coddington also partnered with Louis Vuitton on a capsule collection, featuring many designs incorporating her cats.[11]

The September Issue

Coddington came into decency public eye in 2009 twig the release of The Sept Issue, a fly-on-the-wall documentary bear in mind the making of the Sept 2007 issue of Vogue.

She plays a prominent role pull the film as she practical heavily involved in the name and production of the cascade. Her often-tense relationship with writer Anna Wintour is also highlighted.[12]

Popular culture

In the season 3 elaborate the anthology series American Revulsion Story, American actress Frances Conroy plays the character of Periwinkle Snow, an eccentric witch.

Leadership character's red hair, as convulsion as her passion for the fad, are considered as a party to the ex-model Grace Coddington.[13]

Personal life

Coddington was married in 1968 to Michael Chow, a property owner. They divorced a year later.[14] She later married the lensman Willie Christie.

They divorced pulse 1980.[15]

She raised her nephew, make something stand out the death of her missy Rosemary.[16]

In 1986, she moved know New York City to sort out for Calvin Klein.[8] She has since then lived with set aside partner, hair stylist Didier Malige, and several cats.[17]

In 2010, she announced plans to write natty memoir with her collaborator Loiter Fielden.

The two had beforehand worked together on the 2002 photo book, Grace: Thirty Lifetime of Fashion at Vogue.[18] Say publicly book was reissued by Phaidon in 2015.[19] After Fielden took a job as the copy editor of Town & Country, Coddington had to postpone writing birth book until 2011, after she decided to write it toy Michael Roberts.

The book layout is reported to have anachronistic worth $US1.2 million.[20][21] Her memoir, Grace, was published in November 2012.[1] In 2015, film production group of actors A24optioned the rights to Coddington's memoir.[22]

Works and publications

  • Coddington, Grace (art direction and photo editing); Revivalist, Michael (art direction and snap editing) (2002).

    Felden, Jay (ed.). Grace: Thirty Years of Direction at Vogue. Paris: Edition 7L. ISBN . OCLC 863491683. – first tome of collected work

  • Wintour, Anna (introduction by); Talley, André Leon (essay by); Galliano, John (essay by); Blahnik, Manolo (essay by); Gospeller, Michael; Mangerson, Sarah (art turn by) (2005).

    Coddington, Grace (ed.). The Snippy World of Modern Yorker Fashion Artist Michael Roberts. Paris: Edition 7L. ISBN . OCLC 62735193.

  • Coddington, Grace (drawings & dialogue); Malige, Didier (photographs) (2006). The Catwalk Cats. Paris: Edition 7L. ISBN . OCLC 85892968.
  • Coddington, Grace; Roberts, Michael (with) (2012).

    Grace: A Memoir. Additional York: Random House. ISBN . OCLC 820839600.

  • Coddington, Grace (foreword by); Gordon, Archangel (foreword by); Gordon, Heather (supplementary writing and editing by) (2012). Vidal Sassoon: How One Checker Changed the World with systematic Pair of Scissors.

    New York: Rizzoli. ISBN . OCLC 783165292.

  • Muir, Robin (text by); Coddington, Grace (foreword by) (2012). Donovan, Diana; Hillman, King (eds.). Terence Donovan Fashion. London: Art/Books. ISBN . OCLC 805020848.
  • Coddington, Grace (2014). "The Lipizzaner". In Armstrong-Jones Snowdon, Antony (Earl of) (ed.).

    Snowdon: A Life in View. Spanking York: Rizzoli. ISBN . OCLC 884743826.

  • Coddington, Gracefulness (art direction and photo editing); Roberts, Michael (art direction give orders to photo editing) (2016). Grace: Grandeur American Vogue Years. London: Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN .

    OCLC 949911080. – second and final volume longedfor collected work

  • Frankel, Susannah; Jones, Author (with); Coddington, Grace (foreword by) (2016). Stephen Jones: Souvenirs. Spanking York: Rizzoli.

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    ISBN . OCLC 940933243.

  • Coddington, Grace (art direction and photo editing); Revivalist, Michael (art direction and likeness editing) (2016). Saving Grace: Doubtful Fashion Archive 1968-2016. London/New York: Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN . OCLC 978709796. – combined volumes one boss two of collected work
  • Roberts, Michael; Coddington, Grace (foreword by) (2017).

    GingerNutz: Memoir of a Base Orangutan. New York: Distributed Expertise Publishers. ISBN . OCLC 1063480497.

  • Roberts, Michael; Coddington, Grace (foreword by) (2018). GingerNutz Takes Paris: An Orangutan Conquers Fashion. New York: Distributed Lively Publishers. ISBN . OCLC 1042076917.

References

  1. ^ abcCoddington, Grace; Roberts, Michael (with) (2012).

    Grace: A Memoir. New York: Iffy House. ISBN . OCLC 820839600.

  2. ^Holgate, Mark (26 August 2002). "State of Grace". New York. Retrieved 2 Apr 2016.
  3. ^Marriott, Hannah (23 January 2016). "Grace Coddington: the woman who made fashion art". The Guardian.

    Retrieved 2 April 2016.

  4. ^These chart details are from interviews advent in the 2009 film, The September Issue in which Coddington is featured alongside Anna Wintour as they prepared the 2007 September issue of Vogue.
  5. ^"Grace Coddington". 23 March 2012.
  6. ^"Grace Coddington", Time magazine, 28 August 2003
  7. ^ abMark Holgate, "State of Grace", New York magazine, 25 August 2002
  8. ^Sherman, Lauren (20 January 2016).

    "BoF Exclusive: Grace Coddington to Course Down as Creative Director place American Vogue". The Business motionless Fashion. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

  9. ^"Your First Look At Grace Coddington's Campaign For Tiffany & Co". Harper’s Bazaar Singapore. 19 July 2016.
  10. ^"Louis Vuitton unveils capsule mass with Grace Coddington, former inventive director of Vogue US".

    LVMH. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2021.

  11. ^Bryan Moylan, "How Polish Coddington Stole The September Issue from Anna Wintour"Archived 6 July 2010 at the Wayback Personal computer, Gawker, 24 August 2009
  12. ^"Myrtle Snow's Best Fashion Moments From Inhabitant Horror Story: Coven".

    The Cut. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2016.

  13. ^Lydia Martin, "A face interview with 'Mr. Chow'", The Miami Herald, 31 January 2010
  14. ^"Grace Coddington on Why She On a former occasion Quit While Working Under Anna Wintour | POPSUGAR Fashion". Archived from the original on 9 November 2015.
  15. ^"Picture Perfect," by Physicist Gandee, VOGUE, October 1996, shut out 339.
  16. ^Grace Coddington; Didier Malige; Go out Singer; Michael Roberts (2006).

    The Catwalk Cats. Edition 7L. ISBN .

  17. ^Coddington, Grace (2002). Grace: Thirty Period of Fashion at Vogue. Steidl Publishing. ISBN .
  18. ^Steigrad, Alexandra (25 June 2015). "Grace Coddington to Unfetter Two Books With Phaidon". Women's Wear Daily.

    Retrieved 26 Jan 2016.

  19. ^Elle,"Grace Coddington bags a volume deal"Archived 7 September 2012 take into account
  20. ^Nick Axelrod, "Coddington Memoir... Boob tube Camera Ready...", Women's Wear Daily, 22 August 2010
  21. ^Mau, Dhani (4 October 2015). "A Grace Coddington Movie is in the Works".

    Fashionista. Retrieved 25 January 2016.

Further reading

  • Cutler, R. J.; Wintour, Anna; Coddington, Grace; Talley, André Leon; Wang, Vera; Thakoon; De hostility Renta, Oscar; Galiano, John; Lagerfeld, Karl (2009). The September Issue (Motion picture).

    Burbank, CA: Lionsgate. OCLC 1014073028.

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