[1] During her time as editor of British Vogue from 1922 to 1926, Todd altered the magazine's interest and content from fashion to a broader inclusion of modernist literature and art.
[2] Unlike her predecessor, Elspeth Champcommunal, who focused on fashion, travel, and trends, Todd included works by modernists such as Wyndam Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley.
[6] In 1982, Madge Garland reflected that the firing and blackmail was rooted in homophobia, writing: "in the days when homosexuality was a criminal offence he [Condé Nast] was not above using the direct threat of disclosure to avoid paying up for a broken contract.
Their friend Freddie Ashton produced a ballet in 1926 entitled A Tragedy of Fashion, featuring two characters designed to parallel Todd and Garland.
She ran a gallery for a short time in the 1930s, published an essay about Marion Dorn's work in the Architectural Review and held a job as a social worker during World War Two.
[7] The flat was "a beautiful house for parties", in the words of Garland, and attendees included Olivia Wyndham, Cecil Beaton, Florence Mills and Dorothy Wilde.