Why Grace Coddington hates Instagram

Loved and hated, exploited to the maximum or underestimated, Instagram has always been at the centre of controversial opinions. The last personality to blame on the social network founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger has been Grace Coddington, the iconic red-haired creative director of Vogue USA.

In a recent interview released to the online version of the American magazine The September Issue star declared: “I hate Instagram, actually. I think it really interferes with people’s lives and things and it’s pathetic how everyone’s photographing everything they’re eating all the time. Everybody uses it instead of reading the newspapers these days. People want you to know that they’re holidaying in Greece. I mean, really. The first one I posted, my whole account got taken down because I was naked, which was ironic: It’s a goddamn cartoon!”

After this traumatic experience, Grace kept on posting only pictures of her first loves: cats and drawings (portraying cats). To get more details about her private life we'll have to wait for her second biography, which follows her first volume “Grace – A Memoir” (2012).