Talk about cool and the gang. Those who assumed that all of New York fashion was in Paris right now were proven wrong on Wednesday night. At the Clio Awards, typically a gathering spot for the advertising industry’s greatest talents, Fashion & Beauty Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Grace Coddington brought along an impressive gaggle of fashion friends, including included Bruce Weber, Nan Bush, Steven Klein, Tina Chai, Raul Martinez, and Karen Elson.

Elson, the model, fellow Brit and redhead who was even cast as Grace in a memorable 2008 Vogue story by Steven Meisel, introduced Coddington, herself once a model in London before reinventing herself as a bona fide fashion stylist. She chicly wore Louis Vuitton pajamas for the occasion.

Accepting her award, Coddington –  Vogue’s creative director at large, British Vogue contributor, and recent collaborator of Tiffany & Co. and Comme des Garçons, the latter on a special perfume – thanked her partner Didier Malige, the models (especially fellow redheads), the photographers (notably Weber and Klein), and all the makeup artists and hair stylists she worked with.

“I feel so lucky to just spend every day of my life doing something I really love,” she told the crowd in the tent at Lincoln Center. “Next year, I will have worked at Vogue for half a century.”

Coddington wasn’t the only recipient of an award that night. In the Fashion & Beauty section of the show presented by Allure Editor in Chief Michelle Lee, the Grand Clio for Fashion: Integrated Campaign, Mass went to Clemenger BBDO Melbourne for Bonds’ The Boys, while the Beauty: Integrated Campaign, Prestige Grand Clio was given to Forsman & Bodenfors for SK-II’s Marriage Market Takeover.