http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/fashion/grace-coddington-book-party-vogue-new-york-fashion-week.html 2016-09-13 20:24:05 Grace Coddington Looks Back at Her Vogue Years in a New Book Anna Wintour and other fashion luminaries celebrate Ms. Coddington’s “Grace: The American Vogue Years” at a fashion week party. === For the first time in perhaps decades, Grace Coddington isn’t part of the grind of “I pick and choose” which shows to attend, she said, standing in the Calvin Klein store on Madison Avenue on Monday evening. She wasn’t there for a fashion presentation but rather her own book party, to celebrate the publication of Ms. Coddington said the book wasn’t a collection of fashion spreads but “a life,” adding that selecting the images was “almost like looking through your family pictures because, in a way, this is my family.” While doing the edits, she said, forgotten moments and conversations came back to her. She cited “I said: ‘Peter, are you crazy? Dump Ewan McGregor?’ But whatever, it’s fashion.” Some things Ms. Coddington hasn’t left behind are models, actors and photographers, who were well represented at the party, including Natalie Westling (like Ms. Coddington, a redhead), Stella Greenspan and Constance Jablonski; Alan Cumming (in a beret, no less); and her frequent collaborator, Patrick Demarchelier. When Ms. Coddington’s boss, She added: “To me, Grace is the director. She’s directing them. Her picture-taking is so romantic, but often humorous and sweet. She works unlike anybody else.” Asked who made her dress, Ms. Wintour laughed and said: “I can’t remember. I just wore orange for Grace.” The two women still work together; Ms. Coddington is now creative director at large at Vogue, doing four shoots a year. In the meantime, she’s pursuing projects like her own “I feel more sort of grown up, in a way,” she said. “I can dictate my life a little bit more, and if I want to take a month off, I can.” But, she added with a laugh, knowing keenly how fashion moves on to the next: “I’m scared to. People will forget about me.”