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Audie Honor Finalist, Narration by the writer or Authors, 2014 Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Sophistication Coddington's extraordinary expertise and fierce commitment to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the displays, she may have remained fashion's best-kept solution were it not for The Sept Concern, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that switched publicity-averse Sophistication into an abrupt, reluctant star. Grace's palpable proposal with her work brought a rare perception into the interest that produces lots of the magazine's most memorable shoots. While using witty, forthright words that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than 40 years, Sophistication now creatively directs the reader through the storied narrative of her life up to now. Evoking the time when models was required to tote their own totes and props to shoots, Sophistication describes her early on job as a model, working with such world-class photography enthusiasts as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British Vogue in the past due 1960s. Here she started out creating the fantasy "travelogues" that would become her trademark. In 1988 she joined North american Vogue, where her breathtakingly affectionate and imaginative fashion features, a sampling which come in this book, have become instant classics. Delightfully underscored by Grace's pen-and-ink illustrations, Sophistication will expose visitors to the colorful designers, hairstylists, makeup artists, photography enthusiasts, models, and superstars with whom Sophistication has generated her signature images. Grace discloses her private world with identical candor - the car car accident that almost derailed her modeling job, her two relationships, the untimely loss of life of her sister, Rosemary, her companionship with Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis, and her 30-year romance with Didier Malige. Finally, Sophistication represents her abiding marriage with Anna Wintour, and the evolving mastery by which she's come to determine the height of fashion.
