This spring, however, the flame-haired editor is embarking on style pastures new, and has touched down in London to celebrate the launch of her debut fragrance, Grace by Grace Coddington, at Dover Street Market which distils the delicate yet distinctive scent of English rose. “Right through my teens I was always more outside than in, sailing, climbing and clambering over the rugged slopes of the nearby mountains of Snowdonia, or wandering along our island’s country lanes, their hedgerows dotted with wildflowers.”įlowers, of all incarnations, have remained a fragrant fixture in Coddington’s romantic and extraordinary vision, best realised in her quixotic fashion stories for American Vogue, for which, until January of this year, she remained as creative director. “I did love the outdoors,” she writes in the accompanying text. The picture – taken in the wild and bountiful surroundings of her family home in Trearddur Bay in rural Wales – is encroached by a large tangle of white hydrangeas in full bloom. In 2016 she became Vogue 's creative director-at-large, allowing her to pursue independent projects including developing her own perfume, Grace by Grace Coddington, with Comme des Garçons.Chapter one of Grace Coddington’s eponymous 2012 memoir features a candid photograph of a young Grace, standing hand-in-hand with her older sister Rosemary in cream knitted separates hand-woven by her mother. In 1988 she joined American Vogue with Anna Wintour and soon after was named the magazine's creative director. Meet Grace Coddington After a successful modelling career, Grace Coddington became a fashion editor at British Vogue in 1968.

Grace gives behind-the-scenes insight into many famous images and fashion personalities, and features photography by Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, Peter Lindbergh, among others.įirst published in 2002 and reissued by Phaidon in 2015 to great success, this paperback, midi-sized edition includes forewords by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Both monograph and memoir, the book shows how Coddington transformed static studio portraiture into modern vivid tableaux and turned location shoots into cinematic narratives.

Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue showcases some of the most memorable photographs published in British and American Vogue from 1972 to 2002, stories created by the iconic fashion editor Grace Coddington. No longer available in hardback, grab this robust paperbound volume while you can. An artist with a fashion practice, Grace Coddington's singular character has had an outsize influence over decades - a wonderful book for young and old alike.

Grace by grace coddington perfume