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Adwoa Aboah No Longer Needs Your Approval
As told to Nikki Ogunnaike and Photographs by Liz Johnson Artur; Styling by Jeanie Annan-Lewin Apr 26, 2021 LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR
In my younger years, it wasn’t that I didn’t care, but I was young and innocent, so I hadn’t even started thinking about [beauty]. My family are proper tight, and I felt not necessarily beautiful, but I felt comfortable. As soon as I went to boarding school [at 13], I didn’t have that. I was like, “Oh, my God, I’m growing up, and I don’t have the comforts of home,” and I was thrown into this setting that’s predominantly white, and it was too much. That’s not necessarily an attack on my parents, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past year, with the resurgence of Black Lives Matter and un
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Welcome to the May Beauty Issue
Precious Lee, Rianne Van Rompaey, Hailey Bieber, Liu Wen, and Adwoa Aboah share their perspectives on identity, influence, and beauty. Apr 26, 2021
Beauty, it has been said, is only skin deep. But that notion of beauty barely scratches the surface. Beauty is an elemental part of fashion, the clay that designers reshape and remold each season into newer and ever more vital visions. Beauty is bound up in identity, with who we are and how we feel on a deeper, more profound level. It’s a ritual, an art, a way of seeing–something that reveals itself all around us if we just open ourselves up to looking for it.