VIP PROFILE Grace Coddington - Fash Ed. Supreme [dubbed by Patsy Stone of Absolutely Fabulous] BEST KNOWN FOR: Creative director of American Vogue, Editorials--An Yves Saint Laurent-clad Alice (model Natalia Vodianova) tumbling down the rabbit hole with the White Rabbit (designer Tom Ford) in ; a Toto-toting Dorothy (Keira Knightley) vogues on the Yellow Brick Road in head-to-toe Lanvin. Her Flame-red hair. Her sketches When R. J. Cutler’s documentary The September Issue was revealed to the public-eye, Grace Coddington was revealed with it. For more than four decades, Coddington has collaborated with the best photographers and hair and makeup artists in the business to create what amounts to moving work of art on the pages of Vogue. Each of Coddington’s fantasious spreads has a practical purpose: to showcase the season’s most important runway looks. Before going Vogue, Coddington was ‘the Cod,’ one of the most-photographed faces of the London sixties, modeling minis for Mary Quant and cutting-edge hairstyles for Vidal Sassoon - whose radical geometric bob soared them both to frame. When Coddington started there was no such thing as a stylist - the girls all carried their own wigs, makeup, and jewelry, transforming themselves to suit the job. Grace seemed to have a particular knack for this, always pulling just the right piece out of her bag. As the decade came to a close, she turned that talent into a career as a fashion editor, going to great lengths to get to perfect shot. (At her time in British Vogue) For her mentor, the photographer Norman Parkinson, she climbed a Grecian column to set off smoke bombs at the feet of her model, Apollonia van Ravenstein. For the exacting Guy Bourdin she tipped vats of cerulean-blue dye into the ocean to achieve the brilliant shade he demanded. Once, she hatched a scheme with the seventies übermodel Jerry Hall to smuggle exposed rolls of film from a Norman Parkinson shoot out of the USSR in Hall’s makeup bag. All “in pursuit of fashion glory” - Coddington in Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue. Since 1988 she has been Vogue’s creative leader and continues to encourage the team to push beyond the frame, continuing to create memorable and iconic images among the glossy pages. FIRST IN Vogue EDITORIAL: 1962 as a cover model. 1988 as creative director
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