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Edward Enninful, former editor of British Vogue: Fashion has to be more inclusive

Edward Enninful, former editor of British Vogue: Fashion has to be more inclusive

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Amol Rajan speaks to Edward Enninful, British Vogue’s former editor, about fashion for all

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‘Fashion has to be more inclusive, it has to speak to people
outside the normal demographic’

BBC presenter Amol Rajan speaks to Ghanaian-born Edward Enninful,
who rose to the pinnacle of fashion in Britain as the
editor-in-chief of British Vogue.

Enninful has dedicated his career to making fashion
representative and relevant to all, ignoring the accepted
conventions on which type of models will make magazines and
clothes sell. Even before I knew what inclusivity was, he says, I
knew something wasn’t right. But now Enninful warns fashion is at
risk of returning to a narrow definition of beauty, where being
thin, European and young is the ideal.

In this interview, he sets out an alternative vision of fashion
where diversity is welcomed, and the beauty of older women is
recognised - inspired by the ‘bodacious’ African women dressed by
his seamstress mother throughout his childhood.

Enninful arrived in London from Ghana as a boy, and was fashion
director of the influential i-D magazine by the age of 18. After
being appointed editor of British Vogue in 2017, he spent six
years at the helm before stepping down. He is now launching a new
fashion and media platform EE72.

Thank you to the Radical podcast team for their help in making
this programme. The Interview brings you conversations with
people shaping our world, from all over the world. The best
interviews from the BBC. You can listen on the BBC World Service,
Mondays and Wednesdays at 0700 GMT. Or you can listen to The
Interview as a podcast, out twice a week on BBC Sounds or
wherever you get your podcasts.

Presenter: Amol Rajan Producers: Lucy Sheppard and Grace Reeve
Editor: Justine Lang

Get in touch with us on email TheInterview@bbc.co.uk and use the
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(Photo: Edward Enninful. Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)