Grace Coddington’s memoir traces a life spent making fashion images: from an isolated childhood in Wales and a modelling career in 1960s London to decades shaping editorial work at British and American Vogue.

Written with Michael Roberts, it is less a catalogue of famous names than an account of the labour behind fashion—the travel, improvisation, arguments, accidents and obsessive attention required to transform clothes into narrative.

Coddington writes with dry candour about modelling, ageing, loss and the shifting hierarchies of magazines, while her loose, witty line drawings run throughout the book as a second form of autobiography. The memoir is also a history of fashion photography from inside the machinery: photographers, models, stylists and editors appear as collaborators rather than isolated geniuses, even when the industry’s vanity and cruelty are left plainly visible. Lavishly produced and extensively illustrated, this is for readers interested in fashion as image-making, magazine culture and creative work sustained across an entire career.

Alfred A. Knopf hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with photographs and Coddington’s drawings. Light rubbing and edge wear to jacket, with minor corner bumping.