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Coddington’s rise to the heights of fashion and media is the stuff of legend. She reflects on an unrivaled career, what makes photos work — and her lifelong love of cats. Her new book, “Grace: Now,” covers the years since she famously left Vogue.

I often base my impression of a celebrity on one of two major variables: how much I would want to actually be their friend and yap over martinis and French fries or how much I would want to raid their closet. The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Ayo Edebiri passes both tests. For her latest public outing, a screening of her upcoming film “Clarissa” at the London Film Festival, the actor wore a sophisticated number from Chanel, courtesy of the brand’s creative director Matthieu Blazy. Featuring a sleek black column skirt and minimalist stilettos, the look, while pared- back, was…

You’re a copywriter, a communications manager, an elusive creative director with indeterminate responsibilities. So why are you dressed liked a 20th century French rail worker? Today, some 70 million employed Americans will probably work from behind a desk. Yet our obsession with clothes from a different kind of working life just won’t quit. Between 1910 and 2000, blue-collar jobs such as mining, construction and manufacturing shrunk from 76% of the US workforce to 25%. Still, the workman image reverberates ad infinitum through the chore jackets, cargo pants and heavy-duty boots stocked in metropolitan shops, designer showrooms or spotted on the…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. You might have an idea as to what fashion people wear to runway shows. Then photographer Juergen Teller shows up, as always, to prove you wrong. Even amid the hooplah of peacocking influencers and frazzled fashion editors, Teller’s flash of Ibiza club-colored sportswear demanded a double take. He wore them a number of times throughout Paris Fashion Week, including to the Schiaparelli show, in a café across the way…

Paris —  A year after his highly-rated debut as the new artistic director of Chanel, Matthieu Blazy showed that despite the rave reviews and frenzied shoppers, he hasn’t lost sight of how it all began. On Monday night, the designer presented an ode to the house’s founder, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel through a collection that celebrated — and, importantly, offered clothing for — the many stages of a woman’s life. Opening the show, model Dyanira Hurbuscher walked in a sheer look — a bra hinting at the boning seen in Edwardian-era corsetry, but completely softened and unrestricted (Gabrielle famously rejected the stiff…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. If you want more Style in your life, consider subscribing to our newsletter here. If clothes tell a story, then Florence Pugh’s “East of Eden” press tour wardrobe has tantalizingly mirrored that of her character in John Steinbeck’s classic novel. And at the New York premiere of Netflix’s new adaptation, she assumed her villainous final form. After more than two weeks of period-coded outfits, the British actor wrapped up her…

The death of Cindy Crawford’s son, model Presley Gerber, is being investigated by detectives with the Santa Monica Police Department as a “suspected overdose,” according to a media release from the law enforcement agency. Gerber died Sunday at the age of 27, her representative previously confirmed to CNN. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office said Gerber died Sunday while at a rehab facility. The cause of death was not listed. SMPD responded to a location on Berkeley Street at 9:35 a.m. local time on Sunday after receiving a report of a possible overdose for an individual they later identified…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. Paris —  Paris Fashion Week, the biggest arena for the industry’s battle of ideas, is in full swing. Rihanna’s here, maniacal crowds are lining up outside shows to screech and wave at their favorite stars and days of runway events big and small lie ahead. If Monday’s opening day was defined by a series of thinky shows by emerging ingenues including the creative duo behind Matières Fécales, Swedish one to watch Ellen Hodakova Larsson, and LVMH prize-winner Julie Kegels, Tuesday was when…

The sneaker company Converse has removed a social media ad that sparked outrage among critics who viewed it as evoking the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. The Instagram ad photo showed K-pop singer Karina wearing a skirt and holding a pair of Chuck 70 X sneakers. Critics lashed out online, saying that a white triangular image created by lighting on the skirt resembled a KKK hood and that the way she held the sneakers made them look like the dangling feet of a lynching victim. Converse, owned by Nike, issued a statement apologizing and saying it removed the ad. “We’re…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. While New York, London, and Milan’s fashion weeks have come and gone – having brought us everything from Henry Zankov’s new take on Diane von Furstenberg’s wrap dress to Di Petsa’s fountain of breast milk and a very skirt-centric Prada show – Paris’ is only just beginning. Perhaps the most anticipated of all the fashion capitals, with storied houses like Chanel, Celine, Dior and Louis Vuitton staging lavish productions to present their collections, it’s also certainly the most star-studded. But what…