The Scent of Grace Coddington

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Chapter one of Grace Coddington’s eponymous 2012 memoir features a candid photograph of a young Grace, standing hand-in-hand with her older sister Rosemary in cream knitted separates hand-woven by her mother. The picture – taken in the wild and bountiful surroundings of her family home in Trearddur Bay in rural Wales – is encroached by a large tangle of white hydrangeas in full bloom. “I did love the outdoors,” she writes in the accompanying text. “Right through my teens I…