Vintage Grace Coddington's Shots are to be on Display next month at London's Ivy Club.

Grace Coddington, Creative Director US Vogue Magazine, and her "Memoir" had created News for a while and while this is going on, her Vintage Pictures will be on display in London's Ivy Club from September 2011. This art show is to be dedicated to Coddington's ex-husband, Willie Christie's photography. The show will feature intimate shots from the couple’s four year marriage, along with photos taken for Vogue.

Christie shot pics of a 30-year-old Coddington at the start of their marriage, and nearly 40 years later, he has nothing but good things to say about his ex-wife.

“For me, she was still photographic heaven. She was so brilliant as a model because she had an appreciation and understanding of art in all its forms; mimicry, gentleness, and serenity. She understood everything that the clothes were trying to do. She became the image. She had then and still has, an absolute passion for all that she does. Photographically — and personally — Grace was everything I was looking for. And she was willing. Lucky me!”

Grace Coddington's Memoirs to come out soon! She SOLD it!

To the delight of fashionista’s and industry giants alike, Coddington’s memoirs are in the works. She sold her Memoirs to Random House for 1.2 Million Dollars. The book will cover Coddington’s early life in Wales, her modeling days in the Sixties in London, the car accident that changed her career path and her ascendancy through fashion’s ranks as a stylist and editor at British Vogue and later at American Vogue. Hopefully a few behind-the-scenes drama will be included too! Coddington is collaborating with men Vogue’s Editor in Chief Jay Fielden.Coddington became a British Vogue editor in 1969, before traveling to NYC in 1987 to become a design director at Calvin Klein, to then join American Vogue in 1988.

US VOGUE GRACE CODDINGTON'S "The Twenties Story Fashion Shoot" for the September Issue, 2007!

An old woman is standing on the stone steps of the palace of Versailles, her fiery red hair flying about her face in the wind as she looks out at the beautifully tended gardens... 

“I think I got left behind somewhere because I’m, you know, still a romantic.  You have to go charging ahead; you can’t stay behind.”

This was Grace Coddington, the Creative Director of American Vogue and the star of  The September Issue, a documentary about how the inside environment of US Vogue magazine really is like!

I know I haven't posted anything about my favorite Fashion Editor, the Creative Director of US VOGUE, Grace Coddington. And I have acquired so much inspirations from her. So heres to one of my favorites among her works. Photographed by Steven Meisel, the shoot takes inspiration from the 1920s or the ROARING TWENTIES, to be exact! It was the Jazz Age and these pictures really portray the kind of lifestyles and fashion that had sprung up in those times. I love the free-flowing styles of dresses in the 1920s, mostly because of the rebellious nature that is stitched within them.

The above picture is the one from the shoot that had not come out in the actual issue because Anna Wintour thought it "too much Galliano" as is seen from the documentary film "The September Issue."
The problem is that while Wintour is all about the new, looking forward and crisp clean images, Coddington rightfully describes herself as a Romantic - her shoots revolve around a central story or character and the images created are soft and look as if they've come from some far away fantasy world. In my opinion that effect is much more beautiful than colour blocks, clean lines and hard faces.
I know its 2011 now, but what the heck!! I have a right to feature anything in my blog, right?? So,here are the other pictures from the shoot. Remember, these pictures really tell a story... Hope you all enjoy it!!

Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington.
Photographer: Steven Meisel.
Magazine: US VOGUE.