Grace Coddington on Blondes, Nudity, and Anna Wintour | Fashion Neurosis
Grace Coddington is a British fashion editor, stylist, and model.
After winning a Vogue model competition in 1959, Grace pursued a modelling career in London and Paris. Landing a job as Junior Fashion Editor at British Vogue in 1968, she worked under the legendary Bea Miller, and then as Fashion Director under a young Anna Wintour. Lured to New York by Calvin Klein in 1986 to be his design director, she was invited back to Vogue when Anna Wintour took over as Editor in Chief of American Vogue in 1988. Coddington worked as Creative Director at American Vogue until 2016.
Grace rose to wider fame as the standout of The September Issue, R. J. Cutler’s documentary about Vogue magazine. Since leaving Vogue in 2016, Grace has collaborated with Louis Vuitton and Astier de Villatte on capsule collections, styled for Vogue and W Magazine, and modelled for brands including MERIT.
Coddington wrote an eponymous memoir in 2012, and is the author of the Phaidon titles Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue, Grace: The American Vogue Years, Marc Jacobs Illustrated , and Grace: Now, which was published this year. She has written and illustrated the series The Catwalk Cats with her partner Didier Malige, and is the muse for the three-book GingerNutz series, created by her close and frequent collaborator, the late Michael Roberts.
She lives in New York City and Long Island with Didier Malige, her boyfriend of nearly thirty years, and their two cats, Bart and Pumpkin.
In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and Grace Coddington discuss changing your hair after a breakup, Sex, and Anna Wintour.
Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:21 What are you wearing today?
00:01:53 Fighting for an image
00:04:47 Orlando the Marmalade Cat and Children’s Books
00:08:20 Michael Roberts
00:10:45 Prudishness
00:14:43 Norman Parkinson and nude photos
00:17:30 Hair and breakups
00:19:35 Being perceived as cold
00:21:00 Yves Saint Laurent and designers
00:23:50 Advertisement for Quince
00:25:00 Karl Lagerfeld
00:28:30 Actors v Models in Vogue
00:31:00 André Leon Talley
00:34:20 Where do you start with an outfit?
00:38:21 Fashion police
00:40:01 If you fancy someone…
00:42:00 Hair Colour
00:44:56 The September Issue and Anna
00:46:51 Grace: Now and Compliments
00:48:12 Grace’s mother
00:52:00 Wearing Colour
00:54:50 Outro
After winning a Vogue model competition in 1959, Grace pursued a modelling career in London and Paris. Landing a job as Junior Fashion Editor at British Vogue in 1968, she worked under the legendary Bea Miller, and then as Fashion Director under a young Anna Wintour. Lured to New York by Calvin Klein in 1986 to be his design director, she was invited back to Vogue when Anna Wintour took over as Editor in Chief of American Vogue in 1988. Coddington worked as Creative Director at American Vogue until 2016.
Grace rose to wider fame as the standout of The September Issue, R. J. Cutler’s documentary about Vogue magazine. Since leaving Vogue in 2016, Grace has collaborated with Louis Vuitton and Astier de Villatte on capsule collections, styled for Vogue and W Magazine, and modelled for brands including MERIT.
Coddington wrote an eponymous memoir in 2012, and is the author of the Phaidon titles Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue, Grace: The American Vogue Years, Marc Jacobs Illustrated , and Grace: Now, which was published this year. She has written and illustrated the series The Catwalk Cats with her partner Didier Malige, and is the muse for the three-book GingerNutz series, created by her close and frequent collaborator, the late Michael Roberts.
She lives in New York City and Long Island with Didier Malige, her boyfriend of nearly thirty years, and their two cats, Bart and Pumpkin.
In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and Grace Coddington discuss changing your hair after a breakup, Sex, and Anna Wintour.
Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:21 What are you wearing today?
00:01:53 Fighting for an image
00:04:47 Orlando the Marmalade Cat and Children’s Books
00:08:20 Michael Roberts
00:10:45 Prudishness
00:14:43 Norman Parkinson and nude photos
00:17:30 Hair and breakups
00:19:35 Being perceived as cold
00:21:00 Yves Saint Laurent and designers
00:23:50 Advertisement for Quince
00:25:00 Karl Lagerfeld
00:28:30 Actors v Models in Vogue
00:31:00 André Leon Talley
00:34:20 Where do you start with an outfit?
00:38:21 Fashion police
00:40:01 If you fancy someone…
00:42:00 Hair Colour
00:44:56 The September Issue and Anna
00:46:51 Grace: Now and Compliments
00:48:12 Grace’s mother
00:52:00 Wearing Colour
00:54:50 Outro