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Photos: Grace Coddington

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    Photo: © Norman Parkinson LTD./Courtesy of Norman Parkinson Archive
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    Hothouse Flower

    The author, photographed by Norman Parkinson in Jamaica, 1975.

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    Photo: Eric Swayne
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    Short, Short, Shorter!

    Coddington, right, test-drives Mary Quant’s 1966 mini-dress and shorts with the designer in London.

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    The Soaring Sixties

    As a junior fashion editor for British Vogue, Coddington powders Prince Charles for his official investiture photograph at Windsor Castle, 1969.

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    Photo: Courtesy of Vidal Sassoon Archives
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    Face to Face

    Going head-to-head with Vidal Sassoon, who created his famous Five Point Cut on Coddington, in his Mayfair flat, London, 1964.

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    Photographed by Barry Lategan, 1969.
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    Wedding Belle

    Soon after becoming a fashion editor, Coddington married budding restaurateur Michael Chow.

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    Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, December 2003
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    The Natural

    In a shoot inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Coddington cast Natalia Vodianova as Alice and designers Viktor and Rolf as Tweedledee and Tweedledum.