Grace: A Memoir [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Coddington, Grace; Roberts, Michael

Published by Random House, New York, 2012

About this Item

Fine unread condition orange boards with black front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Grace Coddington; Author Dedication; Introduction; Selected Work: British Vogue 1968 - 1987; Selected Work: American Vogue 1988 - 2012; Information re: British Vogue & American Vogue; Acknowledgments; About the Author; and List of Contributors. Illustrated with numerous sections of both black-and-white and color photographic plates, black-and-white drawings, plus color front and rear endpaper drawings. "Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington's extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion's best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-adverse Grace into a sudden, rleuctant celebrity. Grace's palpable engagement with her work brough a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the magazine's most memorable shoots. With the witty, forthright voice that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than forty years, Grace now creatively directs the reader through the storied narrative of her life so far. Evoking the time when models had to tote their own bags and props to shoots, Grace describes her early career as a model, working with such work-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British Vogue in the late 1960s. Here she began creating the fantasy "travelogues" that would become her trademark. In 1988 she joined America Vogue, where her breathtakingly romantic and imaginative fashion features, a sampling of which appear in this book, have become instant classics. Delighfully underscored by Grace's pen-and-ink illustrations, Grace will introduce readers to the colorful designers, hairstylists, makeup artists, photograhers, models, and celebrities with whom she has created her signature images. Grace reveals her private world with equal candor - the car accident that almosst derailed her modeling career, her two marriages, the untimely death of her sister, Roesmary, her friendship with Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Liz Tiilberis, and her thrity-year romance with Didier Malige. Finally, Grace describes her abiding relationship with Anna Wintour, and the evolving mastery by which she has come to define the height of fashion." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 007734

Bibliographic Details

Title: Grace: A Memoir [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Coddington, Grace (book design and drawings); Roberts, Michael (book design)

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition