Fashion Report Card

The September Issue, R.J. Cutler’s documentary on Anna Wintour’s monarchy at Vogue, revealed an unlikely hero: the magazine’s creative director, Grace Coddington, who is portrayed as Wintour’s long-suffering right-hand woman. Wrote Maureen Dowd of Coddington in the film: “There is friction in the Mick Jagger-Keith Richards relationship between the 59-year-old Anna and her closest collaborator, the 68-year-old flame-haired creative director and former model Grace Coddington, who is the only one willing to tweak “the Pope,” as Anna is dubbed by a staffer. Or as Coddington told French Vogue, “We have a real mutual respect for each other, even though sometimes I feel like killing her.” Now that the world has seen their professional dynamic, Coddington joked: “I wish people would stop saying to me, “You were great in the movie”—as if I were acting! I wasn’t acting!”