GRACE CODDINGTON: THE FRONT ROW

GRACE CODDINGTON, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, AMERICAN VOGUE:

Born in Wales

Attended Convent School

Won the Vogue Young Model Competition was a British Vogue cover girl in 1962

Has written two books, ‘Catwalk Cats’ and ‘Grace: Thirty years of Vogue’

“I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream. When readers pick up Vogue, I want them to smile. Everything should be a little tongue in cheek, a little ‘dare-to-go-there’.”

– Time, August 28^th, 2003. By Nadia Mustafa

Photograph by Greg Kessler – www.gregkessler.com