About the Author

Michael Roberts is a British fashion journalist. He is currently the fashion and style director of Vanity Fair magazine, and has worked as fashion director for The New Yorker, fashion editor of The Sunday Times, style director and art director of Tatler, design director of British Vogue, Paris editor of Vanity Fair, and editor of Boulevard Magazine. Grace Coddington is the creative director of American Vogue.

Reviews

A new book depicts Grace Coddington as a stylish orangutan named GingerNutz..The story of GingerNutz, the most stylish orangutan in the jungle, begins with a copy of Vogue magazine washing ashore in a glass bottle.--Emilia Petrarca "New York Magazine, The Cut"

A portrait of white supremacy from the outside looking in.--Miss Rosen "Feature Shoot"

A winsome charming tribute to Coddington's own memoir.--Lynn Yaeger "Vogue"

Coddington's new book seems to have been shaped in large part by her own journey from normal schoolgirl to elite supermodel. GingerNutz -- written and illustrated by Michael Roberts, with a foreword by Grace -- is the jungle memoir of its titular orangutan, who finds a copy of Vogue rolled up in a glass bottle and pursues a career as a glamorous supermodel... wasn't sure who or what she was, but when a photographer friend of mine raved about her not long ago, I thought, 'Wow, she sounds a lot like me!' We both have frizzy, orangey hair -- although mine does not sprout everywhere, thank goodness, because who could afford those hairdressing bills? We both love beautiful clothes, nature, and the sea.--Hannah Ongley "i-D"

Friends since the early Seventies and confidantes ever since, Grace Coddington and Michael Roberts have pipelined their creativity into a new book...Roberts illustrated and penned the vibrantly colorful story of Coddington's life from the point of view of a baby orangutan.--Rosemary Feitelberg "WWD"