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

- 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

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 t…

- 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 …

- Grace Coddington

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

- Grace Coddington

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

- 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, an…

- 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