Grace

image source: NY Mag
Marc Jacobs 2011 Spring Collection

Karen Elson as Grace Coddington
by Tom

Grace Coddington Hair is temporarily in this season.
Enough said.
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The September Issue

Grace by Tom

After long anticipation and much waiting the movie The September Issue just happened to pop up at our backwoods theatre in Vineyard Haven, not so backwoods after all! The movie was not in any way disappointing, (which is odd to say for a movie, usually more disappointments than pleasant surprises!) The first impression is that it's just for fashionistas, but it's not. If you have any patience, which I sense that few people do, and any interest in intense personal interactions, the tensions between head editor Anna Wintour and fashion editor Grace Coddington are a masterpiece in the act of orchestrating different sensibilities to bring out a very high-end single package ie Vogue.  Beneath all the glamour the true value lies in all the movie's captured fine details, a twisted corner of the mouth by Wintour or a cough and raised eyebrow by Coddington are priceless non-spoken indicators of the condition which brings about what we see every month in Vogue. The September Issue is very revealing and intensely entertaining when picking up on the details, get past the big steak of Fashion and find the true morsel of carmelized gravy that lies in its nuances. Very much like the magazine, scan the advertising and hunt for the gems buried in the glop. But it is such pretty glop.