It’s official, BoF revealed that Grace Coddington will no longer be creative director of Vogue .
“After more than 25 years at American Vogue, Grace Coddington will assume the role of creative director at large and take on additional projects outside the magazine,” a spokesperson for American Vogue confirmed to BoF. “She will work on several Vogue fashion shoots throughout the year.”
This is the first time since joining the magazine in 1988 (hired directly by editor-in-chief Anna Wintour) that Coddington will be permitted to work on external projects, including an upcoming fragrance with Comme des Garçons. “I really love Vogue, it’s been in my life always, they discovered me as a model at 19,” Coddington told BoF in an exclusive interview. “I’m not running away from Vogue, because it has opened so many doors. But it will be nice to collaborate, and nice to go out [and] give talks to people. It’s just another approach. I’m certainly not going into retirement. I don’t want to sit around.”
At the moment there is no news on who will replace Grace as creative director of American Vogue.
Grace Coddington will be represented by the agency Great Bowery
