Well, as a matter of fact, Grace surprised me.Īn extremely easy to like and very well refined modern rose with a fragile character. Especially when they lean towards the watery side of the spectrum (eg Amouage Lyric Man which is possibly my biggest fragrance nemesis ever) so I really didn't expect to like the new collaboration bewteen the iconic Grace Coddinngton and Comme Des Garçons. Includes a bonus PDF of photographs from the book.I generally dislike rose notes in perfumery. And her professional partnership with Anna Wintour - with whom she has collaborated for over 20 years - continues to have an astonishing influence on modern style. While two early marriages to restaurateur Michael Chow and photographer Willie Christie 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 18, and quickly became a face of the sixties. Grace’s own life has been as dreamlike 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. For decades, Grace Coddington’s personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue magazine.

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