E251: Editor Of Vogue (Edward Enninful OBE): How To Become No.1 In Your Industry Against All The Odds!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Edward began his career in fashion as a model before becoming the fashion director of the British fashion magazine i-D at just 18 years old. This made him youngest-ever fashion director for an international magazine and Edward held this position for over 20 years. Between 1998 and 2011 he contributed extensively for Vogue Italia and Vogue US. From 2011, he was the Creative and Fashion Director at W Magazine. In 2016, Edward was awarded an OBE for Services to Diversity in the Fashion industry, and in 2017 he was named the editor-in-chief of British Vogue.

In this conversation Edward and Steven discuss topics, such as:

His upbringing in Ghana and his experience of being a immigrant in the UK
His experience of being one of the few black people in the world of fashion
How his insecurity drove him to succeed
Becoming a workaholic and how work dominated his life
The mental health impact of being a high achiever

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It feels like you've lived an impossible life.
0:03.2	But with it came over.
0:07.0	I just needed to be able to look at myself and not hate myself.
0:12.0	Edward and Anzal!
0:13.2	The first black man to become better and cheaper, a British rogue.
0:16.0	One of the fashion industries is biggest names.
0:18.3	He's still hand-of-the-changing the face of fashion.
0:21.4	In your book you talk about understanding that you were gay from a very young age.
0:24.4	How'd your father know you would have slicked your friends?
0:26.8	I grew up petrified of him.
0:28.9	Each day I was being told you're going to be a lawyer or a doctor.
0:32.0	I knew there wasn't going to happen.
0:33.4	The age of 13 I came from another country.
0:35.6	Sixteen I was modeling.
0:36.8	Eighteen I was an editor.
0:38.0	It was quite fast.
0:39.2	Work was everything for me.
0:41.2	There was this notion that women of colour on covers don't sell.
0:45.5	I knew I'd need to do something about it.
0:47.4	I didn't just create a magazine that looked good,
0:49.6	but it's so financially successful.
0:53.0	I was just so consumed with work and work was where I felt like an imposter.
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