Edward Enninful, 50, said he had spoken to Anna Wintour at Paris Fashion Week and told her that he didn t want her job amid rumors of her impending departure as the editor of American Vogue.
and make sure that he was. basically! wow. african mother. and sort of, yes, then i started sort of shooting with simon and nick knight as a model, and then i became a model with an agency while i was at college. and really, that was my entry into fashion. and a few weeks later, you were doing a shoot with the great nick knight, a photographer who you are still loyal to today he s shot covers for you. and you worked for i d magazine. you were fashion director at the age ofjust 18. i d magazine was legendary. why did i d magazine have such an outsized influence on the culture back that era? because we re talking, what? late 80s, early 90s. because terryjones, who s still at i d, was the art director for british vogue. and he looked around the streets and saw so many incredible people from different races, you know? different ages, not being reflected in sort of the big magazines at the time. so, he decided to set up a magazine to document youth culture a magazine run by young peop
many times, my brothers and i. it s remarkable how much the course of history, whether it s global or personal, can swing on chance meetings and for you, it was when you were on the london underground, when a bloke called simon handed you a card. laughs. and i remember getting on the train and sort of heading to college and simon was staring at me and he was i remember bald, wearing denim and, you know, i was quite sheltered. i6. yeah, and at baker street, he got off and gave me his card and he said, my name is simon foxton. i m a stylist. i d love to use you in a shoot. i remember getting home and poor mum. she wasn t having it. she s like, the fashion industry is full of weird people. but as you do when you re young, i sort of forced her, and eventually she called simon. so, she called him, not you? well, she did. she wanted to vet him
people and so, that s why i d was so influential. you came of age in fashion in a sense at the same time as people like naomi campbell and kate moss, who people watching now will be aware of as two icons in fashion. icons. i just want to ask you about what makes them successful. let s start with kate moss. you knew her in the early days. i met kate when i was 16 and she was 14 and we went to a casting, and i remember she walked in and she literally charmed the whole room. the energy as well as the beauty. she s uniquely herself. and naomi s always been the same. she was always outspoken. naomi always thought she was going to be a star from when she was a baby and she is a star but, you know, they really are who they are authentic. you also were defining your own sexuality and being open about it. you had a girlfriend who was another model and then, simon foxton took you to more gay bars, like heaven.
next to sort of immigrants, so i loved the energy. i loved the fact that, oh, my god, i really belonged. i started feeling like i belonged in england when we hit ladbroke grove. but i there was i remember the front line ladbroke grove itself was always the front line and the police were there every day, so you had to be so careful you know, we were stopped so many times, my brothers and i. it s remarkable how much the course of history, whether it s global or personal, can swing on chance meetings and for you, it was when you were on the london underground, when a bloke called simon handed you a card. laughs. and i remember getting on the train and sort of heading to college and simon was staring at me and he was i remember bald, wearing denim and, you know, i was quite sheltered. 16. yeah, and at baker street, he got off and gave me his card and he said, my name is simon foxton. i m a stylist i didn t know what a stylist was but, call me. i d love to use you in a sh