Often described as "visionary," Michael Roberts was appointed the first fashion director of the New Yorker in 1997. The following decade, Graydon Carter named him fashion and style director of Vanity Fair, where he continues as the emeritus style editor-at-large. A celebrated illustrator and as a filmmaker, Michael Roberts is a recipient of an MTV award. He has authored many books, among them The Snippy World of Fashion Artist Michael Roberts (Steidl, 2005) and Fashion Victims (Harper Collins, 2008. Roberts also wrote Grace Coddington's memoir and edited two volumes of her work, Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue and The American Vogue Years. He wrote, coproduced, and directed Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (2017). Roberts lives and works in Taormina, Sicily. Grace Coddington's extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. The daughter of a hotelier in Wales, Coddington was a teenager when she won a Vogue modeling competition and moved to London to become one of the top models on the city's swinging 1960s fashion scene. In 1968, she decided she wanted to work behind the camera and was hired by British Vogue as a junior editor. She soon established herself as a master stylist and in 1988 joined Anna Wintour at American Vogue, where she became its creative director at large.