On the battlefield, lifelong friendships are forged by shared trauma. In the fashion industry, those relationships are often formed by shared drama. The emotionally charged moment that forever bonded the legendary stylist Grace Coddington and the fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière occurred on the set of a 2003 Alice in Wonderland –themed Vogue photo shoot, helmed by the notoriously exacting photographer Annie Leibovitz and starring the model Natalia Vodianova. Coddington, then the magazine’s creative director, somehow had recruited Donatella Versace, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, and a host of other iconic egos to both create original looks for the story and pose together in a 19th-century French château dressed as characters from the Lewis Carroll tale. (Galliano

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