Though the references and figures Ms. Coddington invokes in writing her latest literary venture, Grace, are of course appreciated by the fashion minded, her memoir has a much broader appeal. What she has penned is a winning memoir about an enduring and fascinating life and career.
When I started researching my book, Women From the Ankle Down, back in 2008, I attended a “shoe party” hosted at a fantastic but prohibitively expensive store that soon became a casualty of the recession.
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