Edward Enninful: A Visible Man

Oprah's Super Soul

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Oprah speaks with British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enniful about his new memoir A Visible Man. Edward discusses his turbulent childhood growing up in Ghana and his teen years as a new immigrant in London. He recounts his early days as a fashion director at i-D magazine, a job he landed when he was just 18. Edward opens up about his drug and alcohol addiction and the moment he hit rock bottom. He shares stories about his illustrious career including working with fashion icons Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley. He also explains how he has shaken up the status quo in the fashion industry making it more inclusive.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.0	now.
0:25.0	Well my dear friend Edward is always a joy to be in your presence even if it's virtual.
0:30.5	It's always a presence to see my Empress in the whole week. In case you know that's
0:36.2	what I call Oprah, the Empress.
0:38.7	And you call me the Empress since we did that incredible cover in 2018. Now was it four
0:45.2	years ago?
0:46.2	Already, can you believe it? I just started up pretty slow, a year in and I was like,
0:51.7	who is my dream cover, Oprah? And I'm going to call the Empress and I did it and not
0:58.4	cover really to this day is one of my favorites.
1:01.3	Oh my goodness. Well of course it's my favorite but and you know what? I usually don't respond
1:09.5	well when people are like queen this or rather, but when I walked in and you said Empress,
1:14.2	I thought I'm going to receive that. I'm actually going to receive that and I've never
1:19.9	experienced anything like that shoot. I walked in the room and there's I don't know.
1:27.0	I think there were like six guards in the room because there was so much jewelry.
1:31.9	Yes.
1:32.9	Like jewelry jewelry.
1:35.0	I mean like van cleave in our foul jewelry.
1:40.1	And I'm so sorry.
1:42.1	When that cover came out, the jewelry advertising of British folk tripled from your
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