Irina Gorskaia

Autumn 2014

Grace Coddington

She makes magazine pages feel like whole new worlds

Biography

As a Model

As a creative director

Find out information about

Graces early years and first
steps to career as well as some
of her famous quotes.

Modeling career and some of

the photographs of Grace made
for the Vogue magazine.

Read about Graces career as a

creative director of the US
Vogue and see some of
photographs she created.

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First model card (1959)

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Early Years: Country of origin,

upbringing and first steps to career

Always keep your eyes

open. Keep watching
because whatever you
see can inspire you.
I like to dream. I dont
like to be too
commercial.
Were never gonna
survive unless we get a
little crazy.
The French are super
chic, they still are. The
English are absolutely
not chic, but are very
cool.
I still weave dreams,
finding inspiration
wherever I can and
looking for romance in
the real, not the digital,
world.

embodied into the dream

of a fairytale. In April of
1959
Graces
photographs were sent to
Vogue and a teenage girl
entered British Vogue's
Young
Model
Competition taking the
first prize. This was the
start of her modeling
career at the age of 18
left Anglesey for London
entering
Cherry
Marshal's
Modelling
School.
Young model Grace Coddington. Vogue

Quotes

Grace Coddington is a
former model and the
creative
director
of
American
Vogue
magazine. She was born
in 1941 on the small
island
of
North
Anglesey, Wales. She
grew up reading Vogue
magazine and dreaming
of far away places. This
is probably one of the
reasons why her work
today is so imbued with
the feeling of escape

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auctor vel, vestibulum in, elit.

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Grace Coddington for Vogue

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Modeling career
When Grace Coddington first appeared
in Vogue she was described by one of
the photographers as a radiant girl,
with sparkling looks.
Unfortunately, just two years after
starting her modeling career, in 1961,
Grace got into a terrible car accident
that left her with head injuries and

damaged her eyelid. It took two years

for her to rehabilitate with the help of
plastic surgery. Grace was still
passionate about fashion and made her
move to working behind the pages after
being interviewed by editor-in-chief
Beatrix Miller at British Vogue and
accepted to work as a junior fashion
editor.
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As a creative heart
returned to Vogue
the US edition and
have been working
there as an art director
ever since together with
Anna Wintour in a
position of editor-inchief.
A documentary about
the interior of the
fashion world of one of
the largest and the most

influential magazines in
the world The
September Issue that
came out in 2009
showed a sneak preview
of hard work that
Grace
Coddington
does every day and
showed
her
passionate,
imaginative
and
gifted nature.
A Man for All Seasons; Annie Leibovitz; Grace Coddington

For 23 years Grace

Coddington have been
working for British
Vogue until she was
offered
an
opportunity to work
as a design director of
Calvin Klein. She
accepted the offer and
moved to New York
in 1986. After a
couple of years Grace

"She is charming, delightful, passionate and so committed to celebrating beauty

and her revolutionary notion that clothes, models and photographers could tell
stories and not just be objects," - RJ Cutler, creator of The September Issue

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September Issue (2007), Patrick Demarchelier, Grace Coddington

Eternal-Optimist (2012), Craig McDean, Grace Coddington

Kate Moss (2012); Tim Walker, Grace Coddington

Style of work
While working as an art director for
British and American Vogue Grace
Coddington formed her own style of
work that could be described as very
artistic and innovative. World of
Grace is full of fantasies and to
shocking, loud editorials she prefers
to create allusions to books, theatre,
art and movies. Throughout her career
she worked with photographers such
as Barry Lategan, Arthur Elgort,
Willie Christie, Bruce Weber, Peter
Lindbergh, Irvin Penn, her mentor
Norman Parkinson, Patrick
Demarchelier, Annie Leibovitz and
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The Grace of Grace

Currently Grace Coddington holds a position
of the creative director of American Vogue
magazine. She lives in the city of New York
with her partner Didier Malige and their four
cats. She has influence on various fashion
magazines and photographers worldwide. Her
Memoir, Grace, came out in November 2012.
It tells the story of her life, wide experience as
well as the life of the most influential fashion
magazine in the world. I personally admire
Grace for her passion for the magazine and
ability to remain the creative heart of the US
Vogue and at the age of 70 continue to find an
escape from reality in her magical
photoshoots.

References:
Electronic Sourses:

Vogue Profiles: Grace Coddington (http://www.vogue.com/tag/celebrity/grace-coddington/)

Models.com; Grace Coddington (http://models.com/people/grace-coddington)

Financial Times; Lunch with the FT: Grace Coddington

(http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/71dd2cf4-ca35-11e3-8a31-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3E4zqRWtc)
Movies:

The September Issue (2009)

Books:

A memoir, Grace Coddington (2012)

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