Aaron Eckhart and Model Lara Stone Photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the February Issue of Vogue
Natalia Vodianova, Hailee Steinfeld, Elle Fanning, and Chloë Moretz Photographed for the May issue of Vogue by Bruce Weber
Natalia Vodianova, Elle Fanning, Hailee Steinfeld, and Chloë Moretz Photographed for the May issue of Vogue by Bruce Weber
Sketches of her cats, Pumpkin and Bart, pay testament to her playfulness, while a book by Luella Bartley on quintessential English style and a nod to her favorite restaurant, Tea & Sympathy, in the West Village attest to her love of all things British (she hails from Wales). Vogue’s Creative Director, Grace Coddington, talks about what’s inspiring her right now—be it the structured menswear silhouettes at Dries Van Noten, punk-tinged touches at Balenciaga, or the colorful, droll spring looks at Miu Miu and Prada.
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Highlights From Marc Jacobs’s Seventies Collection Photographed by Mario Testino
for the February 2011 Issue of Vogue
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Photographed by Steven Meisel for the December 2010 Issue of Vogue
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Photographed by Jemal Countess/Getty Images (Grace Coddington);
Marko MacPherson (lipstick)
Our flame-haired, porcelain-skinned Creative Director, Grace Coddington,has been wearing the same red lipstick—a sheer bordeaux stain from Sebastian Trucco—for the past ten years. When it suddenly went extinct—into the void of cruelly discontinued makeup favorites—she was understandably crestfallen.
“Normally lipsticks feel like jam on your mouth; this one looks it, but doesn’t feel it,” said Grace of her signature staple. “It gives my face color and definition, and without it I don’t feel made-up.” Enter Three Custom Color Specialists (known in the industry as 3C): a group of experienced mixers who have devoted themselves to whipping up discontinued makeup shades. Their archive contains more than 9,000 formulas dating back to the thirties; they can match lipstick, gloss, shadow, and blush to fabric samples and color swatches, too. Several days after sending Grace’s last tube of her beloved bordeaux to 3C’s New York City lab, a small package of exact clones—matching not only the original’s tone, but its texture—arrived at Vogue’s offices. Grace’s reaction? “Brilliant!”
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Tony Award-Winning Actor Eddie Redmayne and Model Frida Gustavsson
Photographed for the November Issue of Vogue by Patrick Demarchelier