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“I’ll go to your room, but you’ll have to seduce me.”

“You’re still searching for me in every woman.”

“Maria Elena used to say that only unfulfilled love can be romantic.”

“Mmmm. No, we’ll spend the weekend. I mean, I’ll show you around the city, and we’ll eat well. We’ll drink good wine. We’ll make love.”

“Vicky returned home to have her grand wedding to Doug. To the house they finally planned to settle in. And to lead the life she envisioned for herself, before that summer in Barcelona. Cristina continued searching… certain only, of what she didn’t want.”

A face in which the lines of passion and heartbreak are deeply etched

“Coddington is quiet and reserved, her cool demeanor shot through with a dry wit and a self-deprecating sense of humor.”

Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue, available here.

“People have said to me, ‘Oh, you’re doing a book — you’ll run all the pictures that never got published.’ But you know what? I’m not. I felt that there’s something funny about them; I don’t remember them at all. You go back to find the picture that you cared so much about and think, Why did I make such a fuss about it?” Coddington starts to laugh. “Then you have to admit that they were right. Goddamn it.”

“I was over the moon when she came to the magazine,” says Wintour.”Her vision was and is very close to mine. We both admired the same photographers, and we both liked to see a certain romance in fashion stories– that the model should look pretty and not dour and depressing. (NY Mag article here).

Below, a September 09 Vogue editorial styled by Grace Coddington (snapped by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott). Natalia Vodianova stars as a Little Red Riding Hood while wearing everything from John Galliano to Nina Ricci.