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Revelations on Vogue, Anna Wintour, and Cats from Grace Coddington’s Memoir



The shoot in question, from a 1999 issue of Vogue.

On a particularly trying shoot involving Annie Leibovitz, Kate Moss, Puff Daddy, and every designer ever:

Annie Leibovitz, who is not exactly the happy partyish type at the best of times, looked like thunder. All the designers had telephoned to ask how late they might arrive for their photograph, each one wanting to be last. John Galliano, who was working out regularly in those days, wanted to pose topless. Kate was totally drunk, as was my assistant Tina Chai, who normally doesn’t’ drink at all but had been sent to drag Kate out of th Ritz and ended up joining her for a glass of the extra-potent “Kate” cocktail that Colin the barman had created especially for her in the Hemingway bar.

More of that infamous shoot.



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