""Coddington was 48 when she moved to New York, which meant she could spend more time with her boyfriend, the hairdresser Didier Malige, whom she met on a shoot in the early 1980s. Did she move in with him? 'No, he moved in with me.' She found a 'really pretty' apartment in Greenwich Village with an outdoor space and they continued to live there until four years ago, when they moved to a smaller apartment in Chelsea with an outdoor terrace. 'I have a duplex. It sounds huge; it's not, it's tiny. But you can open all the windows and the terrace kind of extends your apartment somehow. Also, the cats like it.' Coddington has a second Persian cat, called Bart.
Coddington and Malige also have a house in the Hamptons. They go there every weekend, loading the cats into the car, much to Pumpkin's discomfort. Pumpkin hated the journeys so much that Coddington took her to see a cat psychic called Christine Agro, whom she met through the photographer Bruce Weber. 'She was much better this weekend,' Coddington says. Even though the rest of the New York fashion world seems to decamp to the Hamptons at the weekend, Coddington says once she's there, she doesn't go out. She and Malige, who likes fly fishing and who built Coddington a sailing boat, which he enjoys going out in more than she does, are private and keep to themselves. 'We seldom entertain and seldom leave the house. Once you get outside it's a nightmare in the Hamptons; so many people. You can't cross the highway without being run over.' They have a swimming-pool, which she says is something she never thought she would have the luxury of owning. So in the summer she swims, goes for bike rides, potters in the garden and relaxes. 'I really enjoy doing nothing,' she says.""