Sniffing and trying things and putting it on. **LG:** What was it like to make a perfume? Beyond that, the challenge of putting it all together and doing something I knew absolutely nothing about was intriguing. If you’re too obscure, it probably won’t sell.
And since my name is a little bit known now, I thought I could take a chance on doing a perfume with my name.
**GC:** Just that I wanted to do something completely out of the realm of books. You have to make more decisions, funnily enough. Now I’m doing another picture book, which has just gone to press. I did a (3), and then I did a (4), and then I did (5), actually. I’ve done a few books … distractions, if you like. I’m multitasking! I go to my office at *Vogue* every day and work out of it, which is really convenient. Now it’s sort of busier because it’s not all coming out of one central thing. **Grace Coddington:** It’s extremely busy and extremely fun. **Laia Garcia:** What is your life like now that you’ve begun this new chapter? Are your days more relaxed? After I stopped recording our conversation, we also talked about our shared love for Adam Driver, and it was a truly perfect morning. We talked about sniffing, keeping childhood memories intact, and what her ideal project would entail. If you follow her on (2) (which you should), you’ll know that Grace loves cats, especially her own, Blanket and Pumpkin, which often show up dressed in the latest fashions, in her iconic doodle style, and on her perfume bottle, which features cat ears. The first is a perfume that (1), created in collaboration with Comme des Garçons. We are here because Grace has reconfigured her role at *Vogue* - she’s now creative director at large - to allow her time to pursue other projects. She also has an iconic fluff of red hair that is both a crown and a halo. Her quiet romanticism was in fierce contrast to the fast-paced, money-takes-all vibe expected from the fashion industry. Even if you aren’t a fashion aficionado, you are probably familiar with Grace as the surprise star of the *Vogue* documentary *The September Issue*. In revisiting those same images throughout the years, I came to realize that most of my favorite photographs were part of Grace’s body of work - remember the incredible *Alice in Wonderland* portfolio that featured the model Natalia Vodianova as Alice and a bunch of fashion designers, from Marc Jacobs to Karl Lagerfeld to Nicolas Ghesquière, as the other iconic characters? Yeah, that was Grace. Its pages covered my notebooks at school and the walls in my teen bedroom. I grew up obsessively reading my mom’s issues of *Vogue*. It is a truly beautiful day in New York and I am inside the café at Dover Street Market, the cool store that begat all the cool stores, trying to keep my own cool as Grace Coddington sits across from me, ready to chat.
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