This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing.

My chance to talk with artists, policymakers, and performers.

To hear their stories, it inspires their creations, what decisions change their careers, what

relationships influenced their work.

If the fashion world were a kingdom, Grace Coddington would be queen.

The English model turned Vogue fashion editor, Creative Director and stylist, has been

telling stories through clothes since age 18.

Born in 1941 on a small island in the north of Wales, Grace Coddington moved to London

as a teenager.

With electric red hair, she became a model and took the fashion world by storm, landing

on the cover of British Vogue in 1962, where six years later, she'd begin her editorial

career as a junior fashion editor.

Eventually Coddington ended up at American Vogue, where she spent more than 25 years as

its creative director.

For a master of style, Grace Coddington's own aesthetic may surprise you.

Well, I search off with how I dress.

I don't wear jeans and things like that.

I just wear black.

But I have a reason for that.

I have several reasons.

Right now, I'm a little bit older and a little bit fatter and black looks better on fatter

older people because they make them look slim and young.

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