{"id":76060,"date":"2016-01-21T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/?p=76060"},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:34:05","slug":"grace-coddington-steps-down-as-creative-director-at-vogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realstylenetwork.com\/fashion-and-style\/2016\/01\/grace-coddington-steps-down-as-creative-director-at-vogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Coddington Steps Down As Creative Director At \u201cVogue\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With her fiery locks and artistic vision, it\u2019s no surprise that Grace Coddington is recognized as an iconic figure at American Vogue<\/em>. \u00a0However, Business of Fashion<\/em> reports that the 74-year-old longtime creative director and stylist has now officially stepped down from her famous gig.<\/p>\n

Coddington, who has held her title at the fashion publication for 28 years, will now be the magazine\u2019s creative director at large instead. According to Business of Fashion<\/a><\/em>, the Welsh-born former model will still maintain an office at Vogue\u2019s New York City headquarters and will be contributing to the magazine with four annual editorial spreads.<\/p>\n

This breaking change marks new territory for Coddington, who has worked alongside Vogue<\/em>\u2019s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour since Wintour assumed her role in 1988.<\/p>\n

As Coddington is no longer a full-time creative director, she is now set to take on other initiatives and commercial work. In fact, the legendary creative talent will be launching a new fragrance with Japanese fashion house Comme des Gar\u00e7ons. She will be now be represented by Great Bowery, an agency which was founded last year by CEO Matthew Moneypenny.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Business of Fashion<\/em>, Coddington described her decision to step away from her role and to join forces with the agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suddenly realised that I needed some help from outside,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be pigeonholed into just styling a shoot, I wanted to do something beyond. I approached them and they were willing to help me on all sorts of aspects. They\u2019re thinking up ideas for me, which is fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With her fiery locks and artistic vision, it\u2019s no surprise that Grace Coddington is recognized as an iconic figure at American Vogue. However, Business of Fashion reports that the 74-year-old longtime creative director and stylist has now officially stepped down from her famous gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":76061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28246,3378,27186,28242,28243,28245,28244],"class_list":["post-76060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-news","tag-american-vogue","tag-anna-wintour","tag-fashion-news","tag-grace-coddington","tag-grace-coddington-and-anna-wintour","tag-grace-coddington-creative-director","tag-grace-coddington-vogue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t