Now, there’s a new book dedicated to Coddington: Grace: The American Vogue Years, by Phaidon, a follow-up to 2015’s Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue. As the title suggests, this sequel zeroes in on her work with American Vogue, chronicling her collaborations with a starry roster of photographers — Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, David Sims, among many others — and all from the last 15 years, giving this publication its more modern, contemporary bent. “Grace’s first tome, sunny and sweet, was an ode to the fashion narrative, to picture-making spun or woven around beautiful clothes, all cushioned by acres of airiness with nature to spare,” writes Michael Roberts in the introduction. “This second volume, though equally inspiring, is driven much more by the astounding advances in technological artifice. Wondrous, yes. But also gritty, urban, and coolly disaffected. ‘Putting fashion into the narrative of life,’ as Grace now describes it.” The photographs, nearly 300, are indelible, iconic and — as with everything Coddington — wondrously compelling. Click through the slideshow for a preview.
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