For this book to be called a memoir is a tad misleading. It is more
stories about her long and interesting life. This book is structured as
anecdotes about various notable moments in Grace's life. Sometimes it
follows a time line, but near the end it bounces around. She glosses
over her idealistic childhood in Whales, and then her easy breezy years
as a model ,were she proclaims she created the iconic 60s look of the
doll eyes -- when models had to do their own make-up and hair in those
days as this was before star hair and make-up artists became so
instrumental to fashion. Then most important of all, she gets to the
point where she almost fell into work for magazines with her start at
British
Vogue.
The book is full of big names in fashion, like Karl Lagerfeld and of course arguably the most important woman in
Vogue
history Anna Wintour. It has touching moments as well, as Grace
struggles with her relationships and divorces, well creating a body of
work that is absolutely unmatched, while all along having a faithful
love of cats. Her 50 years in the fashion world has seen some amazing
moments and it is a pleasure to see them through the eyes of such a
funny and often no nonsense woman.
Grace: A Memoir is not a typical autobiography, yet for fashion fans it is somewhat interesting read about one woman's love of fashion.
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