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For British Vogue’s remaining concern underneath Edward Enninful, the outgoing editor-in-chief put not one famous person on the quilt, however 40 of them.
The Ghanaian-born vogue editor unexpectedly stepped down in June after greater than six years on the helm. His outro cowl assembles supermodels, Hollywood megastars, pop icons and different vogue darlings with whom he has labored, together with Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Miley Cyrus, Linda Evangelista, Jane Fonda, Dua Lipa, Kate Moss and Serena Williams.
Photographed in Manhattan by Steven Meisel (for the quilt) and Ned Rogers (for the within pages), the 40 girls flew in from London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles and elsewhere to be a part of the historic concern, Enninful famous in his remaining editor’s letter.
“When it got here to my final concern, I knew the quilt could be devoted to girls. After all! Ladies have formed British Vogue for near 108 years now, and have actually knowledgeable each second of my six-and-a-half-year tenure right here, to say nothing of main and guiding me via my whole life,” Enninful wrote.
“It was clear to all of us on the crew that nobody lady may or ought to encapsulate these previous few years for the journal,” he added. “What we would have liked was a bunch, to lean into the facility of the collective to carry to life what I hope has been a daring, disruptive and evolutionary interval in Vogue’s historical past.”
The information of Enninful’s departure despatched shockwaves via the style world final yr. After a profession influencing the highest echelons of the business via postings at i-D, W and American Vogue, Enninful championed variety on the latter journal’s British version in what many noticed as a much-needed new path for the storied publication.
His tenure noticed a number of historic firsts, such because the hiring of Black photographers Misan Harriman and Kennedi Carter to shoot cowl tales, each in 2020, and a sequence of 5 covers starring disabled activists, fashions and creatives for the Could 2023 concern.
Enninful additionally eschewed the business’s ageist norms with a 2019 concern devoted to girls over 50 years previous (starring Fonda on the quilt). His different cowl stars included 82-year-old Miriam Margolyes, who posed nude for final yr’s Satisfaction Month concern, and a then-85-year-old Dame Judi Dench.
For Enninful’s remaining concern, 55-year-old Christy Turlington, one of many 40 cowl stars, acknowledged a shift in acceptance, telling the journal: “We’re getting higher at celebrating girls of all ages.”
In 2022, Enninful was rumored to be subsequent in line for the highest job at American Vogue, although he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on the time he “didn’t need” Anna Wintour’s position and that she wouldn’t be stepping down anytime quickly. He’ll now tackle an advisory place at Vogue’s writer Condé Nast, a transfer he has beforehand stated provides him “the liberty to tackle broader artistic initiatives.”
Chioma Nnadi, American Vogue’s former digital editor, will in the meantime take the helm at British Vogue, making her the primary Black lady to be appointed to the position. Enninful has beforehand called Nnadi “an excellent and distinctive expertise with actual imaginative and prescient, who will take the publication to ever larger heights.”
Referencing his new position in his remaining editor’s letter, Enninful he’s “decided to maintain championing the unimaginable array of voices in vogue and media, and guarantee we maintain the vitality explosion of the previous few years going.”
“We all the time say it, as a result of it all the time must be stated: There’s a nice deal but to be accomplished,” he added.