Grace

Grace Coddington, at age 70, has been the Creative Director of American Vogue magazine for the past 20 years. Her candor, her irascibility, her commitment to her work, and her always fresh and original take on fashion in the pages of American Vogue, where she has been for the last 20 years, has made her, after Anna Wintour, the most powerful person in fashion. Acquired after an intense auction among every major publisher, this woman who became an unwilling celebrity captured the hearts of everyone when she was revealed in the movie as the creative force behind the throne at Vogue. Having grown up in backwater island in Wales, she came to London just in time to be discovered as a dazzling model by the famous Norman Parkinson, then went on to shape the pages at British Vogue for 19 years where she worked as Creative Director with many luminaries including the young Wintour. Lured by Calvin Klein to run his New York operation she then jumped back to Vogue when Wintour returned to America in 2003. She has been there ever since.