Geek Girl Of The Week: Grace Coddington
Who: Grace Coddington
Type of Geek: Fashionista Geek
Longtime editor-in-chief Anna Wintour might take up most of the Vogue spotlight, but everyone knows that the real star of the fashion show is creative director Grace Coddington. Originally a model for Vogue in her twenties, her career in front of the camera came to a halt when a car accident left her disfigured. However, instead of abandoning the industry, she decided to focus on the editorial side of the business and pursue a career in styling and production.
As seen in the fantastic documentary The September Issue, Coddington contrasts Wintour in almost every way: Wintour is always dressed to the nines in her Chanel suits and page-boy haircut, while Coddington often looks like she just rolled out of bed, shuffling around the office in worn-out clogs with her hair a fiery mess—and that’s why fashionista geeks girls worship her! Just because she doesn’t look the part of a Vogue staffer doesn’t mean that she has any less love for the biz. If anything, it goes to show that you can’t judge a magazine editor by her cover.
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