If you have watched the September Issue then you will know that Coddington started her life in fashion as a model when she applied for a teenage model competition in Vogue. She went on to become one of the biggest models of the 60s and 70s.
'Unlike now, when everything is done for them, a model back then had to apply her own eyeliner, shape her brows, and put on her lipstick. She also had to set and style her own hair, back-comb it and fold it into a neat chignon, or make the ends curl outward in the look of the time, the “flick-up.” Makeup artists and hairdressers who specialized in photo shoots were completely nonexistent. Each model was expected to own a model bag, and what she put into it was terribly important.'
It seems like back in the day, models had to do their own make-up and hair as my job didn't exist back then it seems! Also each model had a bag, Grace revealed that in hers, she carried pennies for phones, maps, diaries, food, hair pins, make-up and a sewing kit!
'My particular thing was to draw an extra-wide stroke emphasizing the crease of the eye socket and add extravagantly long, spidery lines below the eye, a little like doll’s lashes, then paint a dot toward the inner corner for reasons I can’t exactly articulate except that it looked nice and “now.” Later I discovered my crazy new eyelash look being called “twiglets” and credited to the young British model Twiggy. Well, they were very much mine. I was probably doing them before she was born!'
Interesting!
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