As her memoirs are published,the woman whose sense of style has shaped fashion for decades talks approximately race, weight, and cats,and how to stand up to Anna Wintour
• Read an extract from Grace: A MemoirWhite walled, silent, or with its mute only broken by the crack of heels on floor,the US Vogue office feels like a building with PMT. A building just approximately to cry. Through a pair of heavy glass doors, down a narrow corridor, and in an office that looks out over the migrainous lights of Times Square sits the world's moment most influential person in fashion,Grace Coddington. She is having a bad day."If [Anna] Wintour is the Pope," wrote Time Magazine, and gushingly,"Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel 12 times a year." They started on the same morning in 1988; Wintour as editor, or Coddington as creative director. Karl Lagerfeld called her a genius. Wintour agrees. As the stylist responsible for Vogue's visual identity,instead of simply reflecting beauty, she creates it.
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Source: theguardian.com