Grace: A Memoir

416 Pages·2012·0.23 MB·English

by  Grace Coddington

Michael Roberts, Sally Singer, Susie Menkes, Fuanca Sozzani, Tabitha Simmons, Camilla Nickerson, Elissa Santisi
Phyllis Posnick, Hamish Bowles, Virginia Smith, Andre Leon Talley, Anna Wintour, me, Tonne Goodman, Mark Holgar

Copyright © 2012 by Grace Coddington
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House,
Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coddington, Grace.
Grace:a memoir/Grace Coddington.
p.   cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-64521-4
1.  Coddington, Grace, 1941–   2.  Image consultants—Great Britain—Biography.   3.  Fashion editors—Great Britain—
Biography.   4.  Models—Great Britain—Biography.   5.  Vogue.   I.  Title.
TT505.C63A3 2012
646.70092—dc23
 [B]      2012021216
www.atrandom.com
Cover design and illustration: Grace Coddington
Cover photograph: © Norman Parkinson Ltd./courtesy Norman Parkinson Archive
Book design by Grace Coddington and Michael Roberts
Drawings by Grace Coddington
v3.1
For Henri
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
INTRODUCTION
I              ON GROWING UP
II             ON MODELING
III            ON THE FASHIONABLE LIFE
IV            ON BRITISH VOGUE
V             ON TAKING PICTURES
VI            ON BEGINNINGS AND ENDS
VII           ON CAFÉ SOCIETY
VIII          ON STATES OF GRACE
IX            ON BRUCE
X             ON DIDIER
XI            ON CALVINISM
XII           ON AMERICAN VOGUE
XIII          ON THE BIGGER PICTURE
XIV          ON ANNA
XV           ON PUSHING AHEAD
XVI          ON LIZ
XVII         ON BEAUTY
XVIII        ON CATS
XIX          ON THEN AND NOW
Selected Work
Information
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Contributors
Other Books by This Author
GALLERY
Me, the chubby-cheeked future model, aged four or �ve