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Blooming.(Grace Coddington)
Byline: Anna Wintour
As ever, our December issue is blessed with a glorious story from Grace Coddington, our Creative Director. Back in the summer, she asked a number of designers to invent dresses that represented specific flowers (a poppy, a peony, a rose). The result, shot by Steven Meisel, is the kind of fantastical, delightful, and inimitable portfolio that has made Grace the world's most magical fashion editor. As a tribute to this quality, Jean Paul Gaultier recently celebrated his thirtieth anniversary by staging a magic show in Paris at which Grace dematerialized before our eyes and reappeared as the model Lily Cole with a cat! (Grace is a true cat lover: Please be sure to enjoy her new illustrated book from Steidl, The Catwalk Cats.) But the work of a great fashion editor is far more substantial than a puff of smoke. Next spring, we will all be wearing floriferous dresses (most notably by Alexander McQueen and by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton); and Grace has yet again shown her prescience. Note as well, on the subject of flowers, Irving Penn's moving still ...
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- Magazine article from: WWD September 17, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Review Douthat, Ross October 5, 2009 700+ words
...this sense, is the contrast between the chilly, sphinx-like editor and her passionate, earthy creative director, Grace Coddington, a former model turned wild-haired composer of gorgeous photo shoots. Both women are British, both are just past menopause...
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- Magazine article from: WWD November 18, 1986 700+ words
Coddington director of design at Calvin Klein NEW YORK -- Grace Coddington has resigned as fashion director of British Vogue to join Calvin Klein Industries as director of design, a new post. The appointment...
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- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) August 25, 2009 700+ words
...the shadows of her high-profile Vogue magazine boss, Grace Coddington could be about to be thrust into the limelight thanks to...The small nation that punches above its weight in fashion Grace Coddington is the latest in a long line of high-profile Welsh figures...
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- Newspaper article from: Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland) September 11, 2009 700+ words
...September Issue ( the documentary conceived to show the truth behind rumours that she is a bitch) by her creative director Grace Coddington, according to movie critics. The Vogue editor has been missing from the front row at fashion shows, prompting speculation...
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...WHERE TWO OF THE MOVIES' MOST DARING, NICOLE KIDMAN AND ED HARRIS, MET PHOTOGRAPHER BRUCE...PRODUCTIONS. THROUGHOUT THIS STORY: Nicole Kidman wears cosmetic colors by LANCOME...become the loves of my life."--Nicole Kidman "Even as a child I always felt very...
