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Kate Moss Turns 38, Giles Deacon Creates iPad Prints, and Tommy Ton Snaps Pitti Uomo

Christina Perez — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:25:36 PST

>> Today's stories and more - here, in our daily news roundup.

Kate Moss turns 38: A look at the supermodel's best bad-girl moments
[Stylecaster]

Peek inside a Teen Vogue editor's New York apartment [Refinery29]

Moda Operandi’s founder talks strategy, Taylor Tomasi Hill, and average transaction price per customer
[Fashionista]

Giles Deacon on his new iPad prints [Elle]

Alberta Ferretti: semi-celebrity meets demi-couture
[Telegraph]

Tommy Ton's street style: the photographer hits Pitti Uomo [GQ]

Grace Coddington, Scarlet Woman: former husband Willie Christie unveils his intimate portraits of Vogue’s creative director [Nowness]

French swimwear line Tooshie teams with A.P.C. for capsule collection [T Magazine]

Target's new design collaboration thinks local, ships national [Racked]

Grace Coddington Sold Her Memoir for a Rumored $1.2 Million

fashionologie — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:03:16 PDT

>> Grace Coddington has been working on a memoir since last year, and now it sounds like it's guaranteed to get published: she's sold it to Random House for a rumored $1.2 million. The book is said to cover Coddington's early life in Wales, her time as a model in '60s London, the car accident that changed her career path, and the subsequent years spent as a stylist and editor at both British and American Vogue. Although she was originally collaborating with Jay Fielden, he left the project after becoming editor-in-chief of Town & Country; Coddington is now said to be co-writing the book with former Vanity Fair fashion and style director Michael Roberts. Random House declined comment. [NYO]

A Look Back at Karen Elson and Jack White, The Couple

fashionologie — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:10:52 PDT

>> Karen Elson and Jack White are making sure their marriage - just over six years' worth - goes out with a bang, by holding a divorce party in Nashville this evening. The couple wasn't often captured together - it wasn't until last year that White finally agreed to be photographed with Elson for the first time, for Vogue's June 2010 issue. “When this [opportunity at Vogue] came about,” Elson said at the time, “for whatever reason, he was sort of like, You know, this is going to be the only time we are ever, ever, ever going to do this, so it might as well be with the best people on the planet, it might as well be with Annie [Leibovitz] and Grace [Coddington], to get that one great image of the pair of us.” Those images, plus the rare few others of the couple together, in the slideshow; plus, The White Stripes' video for "Blue Orchid," on the set of which Elson and White met in 2005. It premiered just days before they were married.

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Happy 70th Birthday Grace Coddington!

fashionologie — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:19:20 PDT

>> When Grace Coddington turned 50 in 1991, Anna Wintour threw her a blowout party at Indochine in New York, with portraits from her modeling days adorning the walls. Coddington wore Alaia (left), and Azzedine himself flew in to surprise the redheaded editor at the dinner.

Word is Coddington has again reserved all of Indochine tonight - this time to celebrate her 70th birthday. We look back at some of our favorite Coddington pictures over the years in tribute.

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Karl Lagerfeld Enjoys "Playing the Celebrity Game," Grace Coddington Says

fashionologie — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:44:51 PDT

>> Karl Lagerfeld has put his face on dolls, bags, and even a Diet Coke bottle - there's no doubt about it, he loves the attention. Grace Coddington, recalling how she once saw Lagerfeld mobbed at Grand Central Station in New York (he took a second lap around the place instead of escaping), confirms: “Karl plays the celebrity game. I always make this mistake and think it must be really unpleasant for him, but he actually enjoys it - it’s very rock ’n’ roll.” [More Intelligent Life]

Grace Coddington on Why She Once Quit While Working Under Anna Wintour

fashionologie — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:24:16 PDT

>> The skeleton details of Grace Coddington's CV are pretty well-established at this point: a long and lustrous tenure as Vogue creative director was achieved after a terrible car accident turned her modeling career into that of a stylist and fashion editor. But a profile of Coddington in The Economist's quarterly supplement More Intelligent Life - by one of Coddington's former assistants - gives us a few less-reported details.

Coddington says of her mentor, the photographer Norman Parkinson, in the '70s: “He taught me the art of travelling, which means never closing your eyes in case you miss something. We’d get up at five and drive round on recces to see what inspired us. The approach is so different now. Photographers don’t look out the window: they want to see a location book, and everything is done on computers.”

She turns 70 in April, and admits that she, too, has changed her approach: “I got really sick last time in Paris [during Fashion Week], and I was on antibiotics for two months. I push my body too hard, and do have to stop myself now from jumping on a plane. It used to be me who got sent to Russia and China while the older editors stayed behind, but I’m one of those older ones now.”

A few more things we learned:

She's lived with Didier Malige since the '80s, but she's also been married twice: The first time was in 1969 to Michael Chow, the owner of the Mr Chow restaurant chain. It lasted six months ("I was useless at being a restaurateur’s wife - much too shy to table-hop," Coddington says). And the second time was in 1976 to a "rangy, rock'n'roll" photographer, Willie Christie, who she mentored at British Vogue. They divorced in 1980 because, Coddington says, “It’s difficult to be employed by your wife.” In between the two marriages she dated Duc, a young, Paris-based Vietnamese photographer, with whom she was in love before, during, and after her first marriage.

Coddington - known for her long, red hair - was once a blonde: In 1980, after her second divorce, Coddington turned herself into "a business-suited, short-haired blonde - what she calls a 'Calvin person.'"

She once quit while working for Anna Wintour: Coddington had been at British Vogue since 1968, but after Anna Wintour joined as editor-in-chief in March 1986, Coddington resigned in December of that year: “Anna was much more into ‘sexy’ than I was.” She rejoined Wintour at Vogue two years later because she missed working at magazines (she had been working as Calvin Klein design director in the interim: "Excitement on 7th Avenue ends with the show. The next day it’s all marketing.").

Carine Roitfeld's New Fashion Project Not With Tom Ford; Alexander Wang Awarded $50,000

fashionologie — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:44:41 PST

Carine Roitfeld's new project has nothing to do with Tom Ford, she says: "A long time he’s my friend, but I don’t want to go back, so I want to look in front of me … Because I did ten years with Tom, then ten years for Vogue Paris. Now I want to do something new. I don’t want to go back. But he’s one of my best friends, Tom" [The Cut]
Alexander Wang was just named GQ's Best New Menswear Designer, for which he will receive $50,000 [GQ]
Karl Lagerfeld is selling his six-floor, never-lived-in Gramercy Park apartment (which he bought in 2006 for $6.575 million because he "thought he’d move here and retire here," according to a source) for $5.5 million [NY Post]
19-year-old Ukrainian model Juju Ivanyuk, who opened for Celine and Alexander McQueen last season, was chosen by Prada and Miu Miu casting director Russell Marsh to open and close the BCBG show yesterday (left) [The Cut]
Grace Coddington's memoir has stalled - "It's slow going," she says - because her co-writer Jay Fielden is settling into his new job as Town & Country editor [NY Post]
Alexander McQueen's sales continue to grow, a year after the founding designer's death [Vogue UK]
Which New York shows is Anna Wintour looking forward to? "I’m always looking forward to seeing the young designers in New York, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, Alexander Wang - all the designers that came out of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. And Olivier Theyskens' first show for Theory. That’s obviously very exciting" [NY Times]
Reed Krakoff cut his invitation list by 120 this season [@jimshi809]
Net-a-Porter is now putting out a print magazine; the first issue features Alexa Chung on the cover [Fashionista]
A preview of the new Lizzie Fortunato Jewels collection, which in addition to the signature bib necklaces includes woven belts and leopard print pony hair satchels for Fall 2011 [The Moment]
According to The Lake and the Stars's Maayan Zilberman, who cast plus size models like Alyona Osmanova and Inga Eiriksdottir in her Fall 2011 show today: "Agencies are horrified we're putting girls from plus division in with [skinny girls], and some agents said flat out they wouldn't put their 'good girls' with plus sized models" [@Refinery29, @jezebeljenna]
New Barneys fashion director Amanda Brooks wore flats to the shows yesterday because her doctor told her to [The Window]
Androgynous male model Andrej Pejic has been cast in Yoana Baraschi's Feb. 13 show [Fashionetc.]

Candy Magazine Does Drag Versions of Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, and Tavi Gevinson

fashionologie — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:47:46 PST

>> Luis Venegas, editor and publisher of the “transversal style magazine” Candy, takes on the drag version of Anna Wintour to model and DJ Andrès Borque's Grace Coddington in the magazine's The Devil Wears Anna editorial. Franca Sozzani and Tavi Gevinson get play, too. [Frockwriter]

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Lady Gaga Rumored to Be on Vogue's March 2011 Cover

fashionologie — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:29:46 PST

>> Lady Gaga has appeared in Vogue before - in the December 2009 issue, she played the witch in a Hansel and Gretel spread, and Grace Coddington, who styled the shoot, said Gaga arrived on set "stark naked except for her white rubber raincoat and some very, very high heels!” Now, it's rumored that she scored the magazine's cover - for the second biggest issue of the year, March 2011. Will she wear Armani? [Fashionista]

Anna Wintour and Marco Zanini Amongst Attendees at Sally Singer's T Magazine Fete

fashionologie — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:30:39 PDT

>> There was no shortage of attendees last Thursday at the Spotted Pig in Manhattan, gathered in honor of Sally Singer's recent appointment as editor of T magazine. Singer was reportedly bashful about being the guest of honor as designers, friends, and Vogue cohorts all gathered to say their congratulations - among them Anna Wintour, who was one of the first to arrive - and Marco Zanini, creative director of Rochas, who flew in just for the event. Singer, who will debut her first issue for T on Dec. 5 (her first fashion issue doesn't come until February), is apparently done with hiring - she stated at the party that her staff of 40 at the magazine is set.

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