For decades Grace Coddington's personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue" magazine. Then came " The September Issue" the behind-the-scenes documentary that turned the spotlight on a woman with a no-nonsense attitude & an unerring visual instinct. Overnight the flame-haired Grace became a heroine for fashion insiders & the general public alike. Witty & forthright & illustrated throughout with vintage photographs & exclusive line-drawings " Grace: A Memoir" shares the excitement & vision that go into producing so many unforgettable fashion images. Here are the designers models photographers hairstylists make-up artists & 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". Grace's own life has been as dreamlike as one of her madcap fashion spreads. Brought up in windswept wartime Anglesey she arrived in London aged eighteen & quickly became a face of the Sixties. The muse behind Vidal Sassoon's Five Point Cut she posed for Bailey Donovan Duffy & Norman Parkinson in Swinging London & jumped into a pool in Saint-Tropez for Helmut Newton. Surviving a serious car-crash she later became a fashion editor at British " Vogue" & during the Seventies & the Eighties started to create the fantasy travelogues that would become her trademark. Friendships bloomed
- with Bruce Weber & Calvin Klein whose offer of a job took Grace to New York. While two early marriages to restaurateur Michael Chow & photographer Willie Christie were brief her romance with the hairstylist Didier Malige has endured. & her professional partnership with Anna Wintour
- with whom she has collaborated for over twenty years
- continues to have an astonishing influence on modern style."