CODDINGTON Grace (Editor / Stylist)

"Grace Coddington is the eye _ the eye... I never saw a wrong dress she chose... Grace was without a doubt the fashion editor", says Manolo Blahnik. Coddington has influenced fashion in many different ways. In 1959 "The Cod", photographed here wearing all-over prints by Jacques Heim, was spotted by Norman Parkinson. She constantly reinvented her image by changing her distinctive red hair from a chunky Vidal Sassoon bob to a halo of frizzy curls _ a formula that would later be used by Linda Evangelista. In 1968 she moved to British Vogue, taking Calvin Klein's modern aesthetic to a 1970s European audience. Her style inspired designers such as Kenzo and Pablo & Delia and she later championed the talents of Azzedine Alaïa and Zoran. Coddington moved to American Vogue in 1987. She said of her time there, "You're either having dinner with 300 people or grovelling on the floor with pins in your mouth".