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Thursday December 6th, 2012

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Strange Bikini Lies
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Sarah Jessica Parker’s Strange Bikini Lies

When asked about her first Vogue sitting, a 1994 shoot with Grace Coddington and Steven Meisel, Parker recalled, “[Grace Coddington] pulled a teeny-tiny white bikini off the hanger, and in my whole life I had never worn a bikini…I didn’t wear a bikini as a little girl. I certainly didn’t wear a bikini as an older little girl, and nor would I ever put one on today. I thought ‘It’s Grace Coddington, I should put on what she asks me to do.’ Linda Evangelista sat in the corner and told me how to stand. I have never worn a bikini since.”

Really?

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Tuesday November 27th, 2012

Check Out the Trailer for the New Vogue Documentary
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Check Out the Trailer for the New Vogue Documentary

If you’ve worked–or are looking to work–in the fashion industry, the women in the above photo should strike a bit of fear and awe into your hearts. That’s Babs Simpson, Grace Coddington, Tonne Goodman, Phyllis Posnick, Jade Hobson, Carlyne Cerf, Polly Mellen and Camilla Nickerson–past and current fashion editors of Vogue.

They’re the subject of a new HBO documentary airing December 6 called In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye based on the book of the same name.

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Wednesday November 21st, 2012

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

Though Grace Coddington is more of a behind-the-scenes person–her job requires it and she describes herself as shy and reserved (in high school Coddington’s parents arranged for her to eat at a quiet cafe so she “didn’t have to talk to anyone”)–when The September Issue made her a star and forced her to open up while doing press for the doc, she figured “maybe I had a bigger story to share.”

And we’re so glad she did because Coddington’s life story is not only funny and poignant, blunt and inspiring, but it’s also an insider’s history of the fashion industry and how it’s changed from the 1950s to today. Starting her career as a model in the ’50s and becoming an editor at British Vogue in the ’60s before moving on to American Vogue in the ’80s–Coddington has truly seen it all.

Here’s what we learned, in Coddington’s own words.

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Tuesday November 20th, 2012

Grace Coddington Will Answer All Your Burning Questions About Cats and Anna Wintour Today on Twitter
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Grace Coddington Will Answer All Your Burning Questions About Cats and Anna Wintour Today on Twitter

To promote her new memoirs, Grace Coddington will be taking over Vogue Magazine’s twitter (@voguemagazine) today from noon until 1 p.m. EST.

She’ll answer fans’ burning questions about cat psychics (yes she uses one), Vogue, her modeling career and maybe even Anna Wintour. (We assume Coddington’s assistant Stella Greenspan will be the one tweeting Coddington’s answers as Coddington, in her book, outs herself as a technophone who only reads her emails once they’re printed out.)

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Monday November 19th, 2012

Grace Coddington Thinks All Young Designers Could Stand to Have ‘A Few Things Going Wrong in Their Life’
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Grace Coddington Thinks All Young Designers Could Stand to Have ‘A Few Things Going Wrong in Their Life’

Until we get our hands on Grace Coddington’s new memoir (Leah’s currently reading it), we’ll settle for poring over the press surrounding the book, for which she says she was “media trained,” but still lets out some good stuff.

She spoke to the New York Times and the Telegraph about the book, her cats, Anna Wintour, her legion of adoring fans post- The September Issue, her friend Nicolas Ghesquiere, who should play her in a movie and why young designers need to have “a few things going wrong in their life.” Read on to obsess over her with us:

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Friday November 16th, 2012

Thursday November 1st, 2012

Thanks to Sandy, Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs and More Are Forced Out of Their Homes Into Fancy Hotels Uptown

Thanks to Sandy, Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs and More Are Forced Out of Their Homes Into Fancy Hotels Uptown

After Sandy ripped through New York, leaving most of Manhattan below 34th Street in darkness and under water, the fashion pack–including Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, Marc Jacobs, Mary-Kate Olsen and more–have been forced to relocate to higher ground.

Here’s where they’re staying. Way to hold it down at the Marriott Chris Benz!

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Published at 9:30 AM