196: Edward Enninful | Part 2

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Arts, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Vogue Magazine’s @edward_enninful is the man changing fashion from the top. He’s the first black editor, and the first gay male editor of @britishvogue, and his story is incredible. From a kid growing up on a military base in Ghana who didn’t even know what gay was, fleeing to London as a refugee, to becoming the most important voice in fashion, he has consistently made it his business to be the driving force behind seeing trans, queer, and diverse faces in fashion. He has now put pen to paper with his memoir ‘A Visible Man’ that details the life of a trailblazer, plus a fair old sprinkling of parties with the likes of Grace Jones, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, wonderful tales of being a queer kid in the 90’s, and we even find out what the ONE piece of advice Anna Wintour gave him that he always cherished.

You can get a copy of Edward's memoir here.

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1:12.6	Hello, welcome back. Here's part two. If you haven't heard part one, that's on the feed. Listen to
1:17.3	it first, because that's my government advice. One of the things that you spoke about really
1:24.6	touchingly in the book was finding yourself for one to a better description. As a queer person and
1:32.4	a queer person, a queer black man, you come out, but then you have to come out twice. And actually,
1:37.5	you can be a real victim. You can be, you are a victim of racism. And at that time, what was that
1:44.8	like? Because I know that that resonate with so many people listening. Yeah, I mean, I remember
1:48.5	thinking, you know, I've been rejected from home, but I found my tribe, you know, the gay tribe,
1:54.5	and then I went into all these clubs and realized that the certain men had sort of these
2:04.5	horrible descriptions for different tastes. If you were a white guy who liked
2:11.4	black man, you were a dinch queen. It should be something dirty. If you liked East Asian man,
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