Grace: The American Vogue Years

The legendary Vogue editor and international style icon presents a sumptuous compilation of her most beloved fashion stories from 2002–2016

Grace Coddington is, unequivocally, one of fashion’s greatest names. During her time as creative director for American Vogue, Coddington worked closely with leading photographers to create lavish, bold, and unforgettable editorial shoots. First published in 2016, this new paperback edition presents collaborations with seventeen of these photographers, including Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Craig McDean, David Sims, Mario Testino, and Marcus Piggott and Mert Alas.

Both monograph and memoir, Grace: The American Vogue Years features more than 350 beautifully reproduced images alongside Coddington’s colorful behind-the-scenes commentary on the photo shoots, the inspiration behind them, and the famous faces they featured. Illuminating the magic of collaborating with Coddington, the book also includes forewords by Academy Award–nominated actress Saoirse Ronan and photographer Annie Leibovitz, as well as an introduction by journalist and artist Michael Roberts.

Features the work of photographers: Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, Peter Lindbergh, Craig McDean, Karim Sadli, Annie Leibovitz, Arthur Elgort, Patrick Demarchelier, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Mikael Jansson, Steven Meisel, Anton Corbijn, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, Jamie Hawkesworth, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

After a successful modeling career, Grace Coddington became a fashion editor at British Vogue in 1968. In 1987 Coddington moved to New York to become the design director at Calvin Klein. In 1988 she joined American Vogue with Anna Wintour, where she was the magazine’s creative director until 2016, when she went freelance.

She is the author of the Phaidon titles Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue (2015/2018) and Grace: The American Vogue Years (2016/2026), Marc Jacobs Illustrated (2019), and Grace: Now (2026), as well as Grace: A Memoir (Random House, 2012), The Catwalk Cats with her partner Didier Malige (Steidl, 2006), and is the muse for the three-book GingerNutz series, created by her close and frequent collaborator, the late Michael Roberts.

She lives in New York City and Long Island, New York, with Malige and their three cats, Blondie, Jimi, and Blanket.