Grace Coddington Quotes

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

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

“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”

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

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

— 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

“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.”

— Grace Coddington

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

— 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 desperately wanting to be there for the social side”

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington

“People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention that celebrities get, and I'm probably too old for that kind of thing to happen anyway. I think it happens more when you're dating all sorts of different very handsome actors or something. They want gossip and scandal, and they know they're not going to get it from me because I'm too old to be scandalous. Of course, they could read the book - although it's not really a scandalous book.”

— Grace Coddington

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

— Grace Coddington