Grace Coddington to be subject of new film

Earlier in the year during the great Sony hack of 2015, details of a proposed film on US Vogue's creative director Grace Coddington were revealed, but were never confirmed. This week Coddington confirmed to Fashionista that the film on her life is indeed going ahead, supported by production company A24 who bought the rights to her 2012 memoir.

Whilst Coddington has been a key figure in the fashion world since she was discovered as a model in the 60s, she found fame in 2009’s behind the scenes documentary The September Issue.

In The September Issue Coddington revealed how reading Vogue was an escapist pursuit from her teenage years in Wales, where she studied at a convent and never went on holiday. “I loved the whole sort of chic thing and it was so entirely out of context compared to the lifestyle I lead,” she explained. It was entering the magazine’s modelling competition that got her foot into the door of fashion – she won, and moved to London to start working with the best photographers of the day.

At the age of 26, Coddington was in car accident that left her with head injuries and a removed eyelid, which was later reconstructed through plastic surgery. Two years after the accident she was interviewed by British Vogue's Editor, Beatrix Miller, and was employed as a Junior Editor. After nineteen years as Photo Editor with British Vogue, she moved to New York to work for Calvin Klein. In July 1988, she joined Anna Wintour at American Vogue, where she remains the magazine's creative director.