We had never done a perfume for somebody else, but we sat down and thought it would be nice to do one more piste. And then it was really Stephen Jones who came to us and asked us to do his perfume. Then there was a series called the 'Anti-Perfumes', so was one more of those. 'We have the main perfume, which was the very first one and always a perfume for yourself to stimulate the senses. 'We like to pursue different pistes as we say in French,' says CEO Adrian Joffe. Enclosed in a playful feline flacon (Coddington's pet of choice), the fragrance is as loyal to its namesake as it could possibly be. Simply named 'Grace by Grace Coddington', the perfume is a heady bouquet of Moroccan rose, freesia and peach blossom, cut with hints of mint, basil and bergamot, that ends with notes of cashmere wood, white musk and amber. This week, Comme des Garçons Parfums brings a new fragrance to life – a olfactory personification of the legendary fashion stylist, Grace Coddington.
To date, it has created 75 different scents that articulate a variety of themes, concepts, collaborations with artists, icons and more. Since launching its first fragrance in 1993, the avant-garde label has truly stretched its boundaries. In 2016 she became Vogue’s creative director-at-large, allowing her to pursue independent projects including developing her own perfume, Grace by Grace Coddington, with Comme des Garçons.Like its clothing, a Comme des Garçons (opens in new tab) perfume bears a distinctive signature – quirky, irreverent and always retaining an element of surprise. In 1988 she joined American Vogue with Anna Wintour and soon after was named the magazine’s creative director. This volume features photography by Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, Guy Bourdin, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, Peter Lindbergh, among others.įirst published in 2002 and reissued by Phaidon in 2015 to great success, this paperback, midi-sized edition includes forewords by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.Īfter a successful modelling career, Grace Coddington became a fashion editor at British Vogue in 1968. Grace's commentary gives behind-the-scenes insight into many famous images and fashion personalities, from the iconic shoot of a bikinied Naomi Campbell in Irving Penn's studio to Steven Meisel's boundary-pushing grunge aesthetic in nineties Vogue. Both monograph and memoir, the book shows how Coddington transformed static studio portraiture into modern vivid tableaux and turned location shoots into cinematic narratives.
»Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue« showcases some of the most memorable photographs published in British and American Vogue from 1972 to 2002, stories created by the iconic fashion editor Grace Coddington. A chronicle of Grace Coddington's formative years at Vogue, now available as a jacketed paperback!
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