{"product_id":"book-atz4","title":"Grace","description":"Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary  talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe September Issue,\u003c\/i\u003e the  acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a  sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace’s palpable engagement with her work  brought a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the  magazine’s most memorable shoots.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With the witty, forthright  voice that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than  forty years, Grace now creatively directs the listener 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 world-class photographers as David  Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to  become a fashion editor at British \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e in the late 1960s. Here  she began creating the fantasy “travelogues” that would become her  trademark. In 1988 she joined American \u003ci\u003eVogue,\u003c\/i\u003e where her  breathtakingly romantic and imaginative fashion features, a sampling of  which appear in this book, have become instant classics.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGrace\u003c\/i\u003e will introduce listeners to the colorful designers, hairstylists,  makeup artists, photographers, models, and celebrities with whom Grace  has created her signature images. Grace reveals her private world with  equal candor—the car accident that almost derailed her modeling career,  her two marriages, the untimely death of her sister, Rosemary, her  friendship with \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis, and  her thirty-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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIncludes a bonus PDF of photos from the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “If Wintour is the Pope . . . Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to  paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel twelve times a year.”—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49337822019888,"sku":"BDatz4","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/129370-atz4-Square.jpg?v=1733979343","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-atz4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}