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Edward Enninful

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“I mean, what I have now access to everything is because of women like her. So Ebony magazine in the 40s and 50s next to Unis W. Johnson would have been incredible.”
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“I mean, obviously, I go back to. First magazine I ever saw was Ebony magazine. There was a great woman called Eunice W. Johnson and she was She was the editor's wife, she was one of the few black women who would go to fashion weeks, as we call it now. And do you know that poor woman they wouldn't lend her the clothes to shoot? She had to buy the couture with her money, with her own money to do these fashion shows called Ebony fashion fair around the deep south of America in the fifties and sixties this woman was so incredible Eunice W. Johnson Ebony magazine, I would have loved to have been her right hand, I would have loved to have gone to the shows with her and fought with her”
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“I wouldn't want to be here doing what I do. I'll be like, I'm just quitting or those days when you go home, like, oh, I can't be bothered to deal with that. And he's like, yes, you will. And you'll go back tomorrow. And, you know, just he's really normal and so lovely.”
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“Without him I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't even, I probably wouldn't even want to carry on doing what I do, but he's so excited. He's a director. So he's also so excited by work and our life. And we have two puppies. So we have a great work-life balance.”
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“I mean love I never thought I would have love I always thought I would be like Of those people who sort of career. minded people you know where you get to the end of your life and you've achieved everything without And then I met, you know, Alec, when we were in our 20s, I was in my late 20s, it was in the early 20s. And part of the reasons why I got sober and he has taught me about just being a person, being human. You know, being grounded. So special really just the normal things in life. But he's also very creative. So he tells me when it covers awful. And we fight, and I say to him, What do you mean this is all full? Everybody loves this and goes, yeah, they're telling you what you want to hear. So my home. You know, my safe space. And he's just very kind, you know. Me to be kind”
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“Don't take no for an answer. Keep doing what you do. There'll be naysayers along the way, people like, oh, you can do it like this, you can do it like that. This person, don't listen to any of that. You've already set yourself on a great path, manifest it, keep moving forward. Yeah, but really don't be distracted by people telling you you can't do this, so you can't do that or shouldn't do this. Once someone again, one of the things my mother said to me is when you go into a place an institution and they say, you know, we do things like this, you should say why. Always have that on your mind. Why? Why does it have to be like this? Why can't we change? So why? Very important one to have.”
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“No, it's for me it's more the opposite. I'm now like, if I don't want to be in a place Whether it's dinner or in a job or in a situation I'm out. That's the ingredient that I have now that I don't want to spend any, life is crucial. I don't want to spend any time being in a place where I don't want to be. And that came with years and years of failures and successes or whatever you call it. Now I know where I need to be, who I want to be with. And that's the ingredient that's been added.”
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“I'm successful. But I'm still a work in progress where life is concerned. Every day I learn something new about myself. I feel like I missed a lot of years growing up. For years I was always. Was always sort of jealous when I saw people who went to university together or when people were university together, had all those escapades and I was working. And now I realize that everybody has their own path, and mine was to go. Be a”
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“So long as there are people there who can sweat the small stuff, maybe other people's talents or something else, but there needs to be a balance. It can't just be. Everybody says sweating the small stuff. There also has to be sort of dreamers and creators, you know, someone said to me once, what do you look for when you employ staff? Like I said, it's not the best interview When you're walking towards my office, am I happy to see you? What are you bringing to the job? So someone comes to my office, they like sweating the small stuff and somebody can just walk in and go, I have a big idea. And that's what I love about what we do.”
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“The devil's in the details. You know, you have to create on a level that we create. You know, you can't just say, okay, everything's fine, everything will work out.”
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“Yeah, but I also think that, you know, it comes with time, doesn't it? You know, I think you can see diamonds in the raw. So I don't expect everybody to be like me, but I can also see potential. And then hopefully you can nurture that potential to its fullest. So I don't expect everybody to come in, you know. Sometimes the best thing Best people you work with are the quiet ones in the back, the ones who are not good in interview situations, but the ones who work and are workers. And she'll probably say that I'm definitely a worker. Like I work very hard.”
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“I think she will probably say that I I'm in sort of perpetual forward motion that I don't take no for an answer probably and that I'll I'll do whatever I can to make. Make the best magazine or to make the best picture or to make the best. I'll go to the ends of the world to make things happen, maybe.”
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“It teaches you to speak up when When you know things are not right, again, I've always had that, but it teaches me to be human, to be caring, to, you know, certain people in our positions, you know, when you're successful, sometimes you... You discard opinions so fast or you discard people's ideas. So I'm now learning to be a better listener, you know, all those things that I wasn't when I was growing up. Maybe it's turning 50 as well. Who knows? I'm more patient now, definitely.”
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“Terotherapy really gives you the practical tools to cope with life. I'm enough. I've always been very good with boundaries. Like it teaches you boundaries. I've always been very good. When I was a teenager, I just wanted to do what everybody wanted. But then the older I got, I mean, I was so frosty times anyway.”
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“I mean, you know, before she had the stroke, she saw how well I was doing, and she would see different articles appear in different magazines. And she knew that she was African, so she knew that I was financially secure. Secure enough to give, you know, to look after the family. So for her, even though she didn't see me get to this level, she knew that, you know, I was able to buy a place when I was very young and I'm able to sort of look after them. And so she saw that. And I think she was very proud of that.”
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“So, yes, spend as much time as you can with your parents, you know, build whatever bridges you can build. I know some bridges are impossible, but if you can build bridges, you know, do because when they're gone, you will miss them.”
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“Yeah, everyone thinks that parents are going to live forever. I say to my friends, please make sure you see your parents as much as you can. Because when they're gone, they're gone. I still pick up the phone to call my mother. And she's not there. But spend as much time as you can because they're not here forever. You think they are. And the biggest regret I had is all those years I spent working and traveling and not seeing enough of her and not, you know, going back to visit and I was just so consumed with work. You know, the one regret I do have is I wish I would have spent more time with her, but I thought she was going to be around forever.”
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“I owe her everything, my God. I owe her the love of fashion and colour and people. The delving into your imagination, the creativity, everything that I create that's beautiful, everything, the love I have of women of all shapes and sizes and ages. Everything good. Everything good in my work, but also in my life. She was the kindest, most nurturing. Human being, unless something I try to do with my staff, that's something I tried to do in my everyday life, sort of, you know, they used to call me teacher when I was young. So I really like teaching a next generation and really nurturing them. So all that really came from my mother. And also empathy. You know, being able to... Yourself in someone's shoes. Oh, that came from her.”
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“But now I don't remember a strange thing happens when you lose a parent. Now I don't remember her being ill. I just remember that gorgeous, creative woman. so full of life, and my mother always thought me not to be scared of anything, and yeah, all the memories I have of her are so great, but she also helped me change my life, you know. Yeah, she was the love of my life.”
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“Oh my god. I mean, my mother was somebody who wouldn't stop working. She was somebody who wouldn't sleep. I mean, I get all that from her. She read, I mean, my mother didn't even cook because my sisters would cook. She was obsessed with beautiful clothes, bringing beauty in the world. But I also watched her, you know, she didn't eat so well. She wouldn't exercise. She just wake up and just work So, I mean, you know, my mother was the love of my life, and it really made me stop to think. I mean, you know, strokes are nothing to be messed with. And it runs in my family. So that was already a sign to really look after myself. But losing my mother really left a void that, you know, will never be failed.”
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“Cognitive therapy to help me deal with that because I was convinced, not just one eye but you. But then I found the most incredible doctor in New York, probably the best in his field, and you know my eyes are, yeah, good now. I mean, not perfect, but at least I can see or partially see.”
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“God, I was a mess. I mean I was living in New York at the time, anyway, and I was seeing, I saw a... Therapist who said I had PTSD? Because I was so scared of losing my vision, it spiraled to my relationship. It spiraled into my life. I was so scared. And I remember. The idea of going blind wouldn't leave my mind for one second. Like it wasn't like every day I thought of oh I might go blind once it was every second on my mind. I could be happy and I'll go back. You're going to go blind. And the mind, the brain is so powerful. So imagine you're leading your life and then there's this thing running behind your brain. You're going to go blind. You're going to go blind. But non-star. And it took a lot of therapy to...”
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“Issues were happening. I didn't work for two years, but in the industry, you have so many shoes banked anyway. So it looks like you are. But I knew after that that I had to change my life, that I had to practice self-care, that I had to, you know, work hard but not travel as much, not take every job. And British vote came at the right time because it helped. Know it meant I'll be in one place a lot, I'll be in an office. Was also very new because I hadn't been in an office for a while. And yes, it really helped me turn my life around. I mean, such a health nut.”
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“Can you imagine having that and then having my eyes? But what it did teach me, I didn't work for two years. People didn't realize when my whole sort of...”
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“I mean, you know, I was, you know, on my way here, I was in. In the car with my pier, and it's like, you're always fighting. You're always pushing forward. Yes, basically all those years of... Not sleeping, just working, overworking, traveling. I woke up one day and I saw these black markings in my in my vision. It turned out that I was. Was having a detached retina. So the retina did detach eventually, you know, one surgery, then it detached again, and he detached four times. In the same eye. And then as all that was happening, my other eye started, so they had to operate on that. I think five operations. You know, I work with my eyes. So can you imagine what that did? So that was really harrowing. And then also I developed Tinnitus. The hearing It's hard to explain. You can't explain”
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“I mean, I think, you know, I mean, I've proven myself. I mean, at the end of the day, I didn't just create a magazine that looked good, but also a magazine that was so financially successful. You know, diversity sells. I remember taking the job and people saying to me, diversity is down market. Yes, I heard that. Then I had Oprah Winfrey on the cover wearing the most incredible diamond earrings and it sold out. So every day I continue to sort of challenge what the idea of Vogue is and an idea of being an editor is but now I look around at all the magazines and diversities now a part of Part of the media, you know, having black models on the covers, that's no longer a. A big deal having issues around the world. Know having gay issues or trans issues, it's no longer an issue. But in 2017, it was unheard of.”
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“And this also happened years ago at a show where they put all fashion directors in the front row and put me in the second row. And I literally was on Twitter the next day. I'm not scared. Fear is not an option for me. From a young age, I've never been scared of fighting what I deserve or fighting for what people from different backgrounds deserve. So yes, that happened at Vogue, you know, but it also made me realize that you always have to fight and you can never be complacent.”
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“I mean, it was, you know, I think the woman was hired from God knows where. I walked in and without asking for anything, without. Asking for my past, it was like loading bay You have to use the loading bay, and I was like, I'm the editor of this magazine. What's that? You know, I always say what that taught me was never to feel that. The work is done never to feel that I'm okay, never to feel that I've made it. Those moments remind me that there's still a lot to do. A younger person walking in there would have been paralyzed with fear, but I knew how to do something about it.”
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“Like a whole other breed. So already I had that on my shoulders. It was a really tough time. But I didn't speak. I just thought, let me just bring out the magazine. And when the first issue dropped December, 2070 with Ajwa on the cover, an issue that was dedicated to Great Britain, the country that gave me her home, the country that I loved and featured all the best, you know. Zadie Smith, Naomi Campbell Sadiq Khan, this the best of Britain. The world got it straight away. And from that minute the magazine just went up, up, up, up, up. And we haven't looked back.”
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“Give me the scared. I felt scared on one hand because I knew the type of person I am that I wouldn't, like I said, I wouldn't just go in and try to make do. I would need to change everything. I also knew that Volk had such a huge, I mean Vogue's the best magazine in the world and has such a huge history that I wanted to sort of be a part of it but make it about today I didn't know if the readers would be ready I mean before I started the job you know there were speculations in the newspaper I mean I got called all kinds of African I got called I got called What”
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“Feel welcomed because I always remember my mother always said to me, If you can see it, you can be it. So I wanted to create a magazine where, you know, women of all shapes, sizes, you know, race, age, socioeconomic background could see themselves reflected. And that's all I did. I didn't reinvent the wheel. I just thought. Who are the women out there that I wanted to reach? And that's what I did. And thank God the world was, I mean, now diversity is a buzzword, right? But in 2017, nobody wanted that on a magazine. And I always said, you know, I knew I'd probably be fired three months in, but I also learned, and this is what I got from my father, I'd rather be fired for something I believed in than to go in half, halving it and get fired anyway, half asking it. So, yeah, that's how Voke happened and the world was ready.”
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“To make it inclusive, to make it diverse, you know, there was this notion in the fashion industry that black women or women of colour on covers don't sell. It's been in the industry for as long as I can remember. But I saw all these affluent women, you know, not just black women, you know, gay women, women from, you know, with working class backgrounds, Muslim women, all these British who are British essentially not seeing themselves reflected in the magazine. I thought, well, not only is it bad, you know, it's not good business. But I wanted to create a place or a safe place where women could just.”
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“What's leaving and without coming for an interview? So I came in for a couple of interviews. I didn't think I was going to get it because, to be honest, I thought Vogue wasn't meant for people like me. I thought Vogue was meant for women from a certain background. And I was, you know, the boy from Labor Grove. I was gay. I was outspoken. I was good at my job. But yeah, I went for an interview and I literally told them How I would do Vogue for. 2017”
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“And then you're going to love it. Then I got a call from W magazine to work with... Stefano Tonk, he a really great edit, and I was there for seven years. But when you're having fun or when you're enjoying what you do. Time is of no essence. You know, like I would say, oh, the issue comes out in six months and someone's like, that's six months away. But for me, it was like tomorrow. So, yes, and then one day out of the blue, I got a call. Jonathan Newhouse Great, he was, you know, he owns Condenas, the company that owns Vogue, and he said the editor who was there had been there for 26 years was, you know, fashion in this, nobody leaves any charge.”
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“So after ID in the late 90s, I started working for Italian Vogue. with a great editor Cofranca Sani, an Italian vogue was sort of, of all the Vogues, you could say the most creative where, you know, she'd give you 30 pages to shoot those incredible images. I did that for maybe 10 years. I was at Italian Vogue, sort of the main stylist. And then I got a call from Anna Winta in America. Come and work for American Vogue. So from Italian Vogue, I moved to American Vogue and I was there for working for enough for seven years. Then I got a call.”
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“I mean, I'm great with people. I love being around people. And I always say, you know, I have a husband who wants to be on his own And I grew up with five siblings, so I don't even know what being on my own. I mean, now I do, but back then, the more people around, the more. They gave me energy and creativity. I love creative conversations. I love being in the moment. I love arriving at a creative decision. So that was really my fuel. Does it make sense?”
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“I know that. Because even when I was an ID, my friends would say, I was never alone at my desk. Each day, you know, every day you'd come in, there'll be the hottest actor, singer, dancer of the moment, run my table. The next day will be a writer. It was like, yeah, come in, come and hang out. Let's go hang out for the day with Edward.”
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“Yeah, and if someone is loyal to you, I believe in sort of being loyal back. If someone nurtures you, you know, then you want to be there. Like I said, it replaces the family dynamic, which I didn't have from that.”
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“Yet doing the job, but ideas are such a special magazine, you know, it became like the coolest magazine in the world. Every model, every actor, everybody wanted to be a part of it. So there was no need for me to live. And I'm also very loyalty is so important. So everywhere I go takes...”
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“Staying for two years. After six months, they're coming to me to say, What is my prospect? I'm like, I don't even know you.”
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“Because you just do because there's certain things that I was facing that you wouldn't know as a person who wasn't black, that Pat would understand, that Naomi would understand we were navigating spaces that most black people want and you just need someone to understand when you had a problem, someone to understand and help you navigate, really. So for me, those friendships that we had as kids in the early 90s, we're still so close to, we speak every day, all of us. So you need your tribe. You need your tribe, and I remember even the day I stopped. I stopped drinking, I called Pat, and I called Naomi and, you know, they'd been so consistent in my life. But I had my try. In an industry that wasn't really for us.”
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“Have listened to any. I didn't listen to anyone. Little Edward But you know what's really great about that timeline? I think about it was like, you know, I go back to saying, you know, I was, I don't know, the chosen one or the token, whichever you want to see it. I even learned at that age that I needed people like myself around. I needed black people around me, people of color around me. So I became really good friends with a young model, Naomi Campbell, a young makeup artist, Pat McGrath, another hairstylist Ben Scarf and Patty Wilson, and we became our little group in the fashion industry through the 90s. And you always need, you always need your people.”
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“Don't just give everything to work don't just give everything to work. You know, find moments for yourself, find moments to self-reflect. Find moments to, I always say, I always go back to meditation. Find moments of self-help. Because that will carry you much longer. You know, a lot of people I started out with, are no longer around. So many people along the wayside decided the industry wasn't for them or was bad for their mental health. And I just kept going. And I would have, you know, I would say to my younger self, you know what, sometimes... Maybe some jobs aren't worth it. But, you know, when you're 18, everything is a must, isn't it”
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“Yeah, I mean, it's like you have to know what you feel inside. And a lot of times too many people, young people are Doing what they think other people want them to do. Oh, you're great. You'll be good at this. You should ask for this job. Sometimes you have to ask yourself, do I want that? That's what I did. Everyone says you need to take this campaign. You need to work with this designer. So I did. But did I really want that? Maybe I didn't. You just do it because people's expectations of you. And I did that for years and, you know, now I don't do that anymore. But it takes a while to be able to figure that out.”
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“Not drink and change their life so you're someone's in a way mentor. I had a sponsor, but I was really in the program and that really gave me a spiritual side to be able to deal with the world and even, you know, to have a relationship, you know, married now, like I said, I've been in a relationship now for 21 years, but had I not taken that step had I not woken up and thought I need my life to be different. I don't know where I'll be today. Because the party moves very fast. You know, the train moves very fast. And a lot of people in the fashion industry don't get the chance to step back and, you know, reevaluate. You just go. It's just like, yeah, you could go from party to party and it will be okay. But I just knew that coming from where I came from. I needed to change my line.”
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“Describe yourself from that point of time. And I went into AA where It's oh my god. I learned to do service with homeless people in AA as a leveler. So you do service with homeless people. You'd go for lunch with people from all walks of life. Don't forget I'd been in this industry since 18 and I hadn't stepped out of it. The only people I knew were actors or musicians. I hadn't stepped out of this, but meeting real everyday regular people that really helped me and also doing service, you know, one day you make tea. I had sponsees. So, you know, sponsies, you know, someone who wants to...”
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“Disconnected from everything, and everyone's telling you how brilliant you are, you have the magazine covers. I mean, I remember once one month, I went to the newsstands, I had the cover of American Vogue, Italian Vogue, Feeling empty, and people saying, Oh my God, look at what you've achieved. And also wanting to destroy it. Really? Wanted to destroy whatever talent there was, wanted to destroy it, not really caring, not really taking care of it. I mean, now I know that when you're given a talent, I don't know where that comes from, you have to protect it. You have to nurture it. But when you're young in your 20s and you have money and jobs are coming to you, you just don't. You don't see the value.”
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“The feeling of emptiness. I can describe that feeling. Now when I meditate, I'm like, oh, that's the feeling. But it's a feeling of emptiness, a feeling of... Loneliness is really how I describe it”
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“The signals were like, you know, not really sleeping. Not really never engaging with people on a one-to-one, always being better with crowds of people around, avoidance, you know, avoiding certain situations, certain people who are quote unquote good for you, avoiding people who you really loved before and who were really kind to you all of a sudden avoiding them for a new group of shiny people. Night spent watching. You know, endless amounts of TV, but then realizing for the past six hours you can't even remember what you've been watching. Staring at the screen, but the mind, and a mind that wouldn't stop, no meditation involved. No, just a mind that was working overtime.”
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“I hate myself. Work was always great, but like you said, behind the curtains. Insecurities, the loneliness that a lot of people, a lot of high achievers feel, you know, when you don't have a partner, when you don't have a family to go back to, you're literally a lone wolf with a lot of friends.”
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