![]() When her attention does land on me, sitting below her on a small sofa, I feel it as something physical. While she waits for him to come on the line, she calls his doctor on the other phone, asking him to make sure Malige doesn't leave before being seen.Ĭoddington is project managing her partner's illness with the calm composure of someone used to wrestling alligators. ![]() She's on hold to a hospital where Didier Malige, her boyfriend of 30 years, is threatening to walk out of A&E. The room is rose-scented and busy with photos – a huge black-and-white portrait of a freckled model stares down from the far wall and delicate cat ornaments litter the shelves. Apologising, she tells me this is the worst day to see her. ![]() She beckons me in with one unadorned hand. And secondly because she's the only person who answers back to Anna. The film's framing of the power play between Wintour and Coddington transformed her into a fashion hero because, first, she appears to fight so hard against trends and commercialism in her pursuit of beauty. ![]() Her work with the world's greatest photographers (including Helmut Newton, Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz and Snowdon) long ago set the bar for the modern fashion story, but it was with RJ Cutler's 2009 documentary The September Issue that the wider world first saw her face. ![]()
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