Grace Coddington

“I can, too, be a bitch sometimes”

— Grace Coddington

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…

— Grace Coddington

If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies -…

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I…

— Grace Coddington

People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention…

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

— Grace Coddington

“I loved all the boys with soft sad eyes, and lost souls.”

— Grace Coddington

Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than…

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington