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Still she was forced to put her modelling career on pause for two years, during which time she underwent five operations to recreate her eyelid.

“Luckily they found my eyelashes at the crash scene,” she recalls. In fact, she made her name quickly and was soon affectionately nicknamed “The Cod” to match Jean Shrimpton’s “The Shrimp.” She insists she was seen as more of a “character" model than a pretty one, but either way she was doing well - until disaster struck.Ĭoddington had a terrible accident when a car driven by a boyfriend jumped the traffic lights on a wet night in Eaton Square, hit a delivery van and threw her violently into the rear-view mirror, slicing off her left eyelid. Working class boys like the “terrible trio” of David Bailey, Brian Duffy and Terence Donovan were the stars and Coddington knew them well.

There were boyfriends aplenty and a lot of fun. It was the very beginning of the Swinging Sixties and Coddington was in exactly the right city and the right job.

Her modelling career had begun, but it was by no means a meteoric rise. The prize included a session with a Vogue photographer. After all, she has been in the fashion business since 1959, when, having “escaped” North Wales where her family had a small hotel and taken a course at the Cherry Marshall modelling school in London, she won the Young Idea category of a British Vogue talent contest. "Grace: The American Vogue Years" | Source: Courtesy "Grace: The American Vogue Years" | Source: Courtesy "Grace: The American Vogue Years" | Source: Courtesy But at every shoot I have ever been on, I believed that everyone was there because they had a role and therefore were important in making the final image. We start with a provocative question: does she agree with the late Isabella Blow, who said that stylists are little more than fashion trolley dollies, carting clothes here and there, and no more important to a fashion shoot than flight attendants are to flying a plane? "Well," Coddington begins, "there are certainly some very good photographers who seem to believe they are the only ones with ideas. But she has enjoyed a long and glittering career at the magazine, faithfully captured in her latest book "The American Vogue Years," which she is here in London to promote when we sit down to chat. LONDON, United Kingdom - At Grace Coddington's 70th birthday celebrations, Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue, described the legendary stylist as "the heart and soul of the magazine, its guardian at the gate, its beacon of excellence." Coddington, who is now 75, stepped down from her role as creative director of the title in January to assume the newly established position of creative director at large and pursue a growing number of external projects, many brokered by Great Bowery, Matthew Moneypenny's super-agency, which now represents her.