From Model to Editor - Slide Show - NYTimes.com The fashion editor was born Pamela Rosalind Grace Coddington 71 years ago in Anglesey, on an island off the northern coast of Wales. The younger and taller of two sisters, she was raised during World War II by the proprietors of a ramshackle hotel, sailing and sewing her own clothes - a sort of low-rent Eloise stranded on a place whose foggy, melancholic chill seems to inform many of her layouts. Here, wearing an A-line dress at her home in Wales.