Grace. A Memoir

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Random House
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Unknown

Description: 333 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The memoir of the creative genius at Vogue US and star of The September Issue- a dazzling and beguiling story of fifty years in fashion.The memoir of the creative genius at Vogue US and star of The September Issue- a dazzling and beguiling story of fifty years in fashion.For decades, Grace Coddingtons 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 and an unerring visual instinct. Overnight, the flame-haired Grace became a heroine for fashion insiders and the general public alike.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. 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 Leibovitzs version of Alice in Wonderland.Graces own life has been as dream-like as one of her madcap fashion spreads. Brought up in windswept wartime Anglesey, she arrived in London, aged eighteen, and quickly became a face of the Sixties. The muse behind Vidal Sassoons 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. 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.Friendships bloomed - with Bruce Weber and Calvin Klein, whose offer of a job took Grace to New York. While two early marriages were brief, her romance with the hairstylist Didier Malige has endured. And her professional partnership with Anna Wintour - with whom she has collaborated for over twenty years - continues to have an astonishing influence on modern style.

ISBN: 9781742755601