Grace Coddington Quotes

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies - that you do it. I don't understand people who do memoirs when they're 20. I think most people need a little more time than 20 years to become the person they are. In fact, that process of becoming who you are is still ongoing when you get older, where you go, "Let's see where my next 10 years is going to take me." S

Sometimes I think I'm the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

I don't mind to look older. I don't have this urge that so many people have that they've always got to look young all
their lives. I think you should be the age you are and enjoy it ... But if you want to have it, go ahead and have it,
but take a good look before you do because, just maybe, you look absolutely beautiful the way you are.

For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.

You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind.

I can, too, be a bitch sometimes

Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.