S15, Ep2 How To Fail: Edward Enninful, the editor of British Vogue on body image, diversity and the joy of being friends with Naomi Campbell

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week I interview quite possibly the kindest man in fashion. I love him so much - and I know you will too. Edward Enninful is a pioneer: the first Black person and the first man to edit British Vogue, one of the most powerful magazines in the world. He was born in Ghana, emigrated with his family to the UK as a teenager and worked his way up through the fashion industry from model, to stylist and beyond.

His new memoir, A Visible Man, charts this extraordinary trajectory and today, on How To Fail, Edward reveals the challenges that made him who he is today: from failing at singing, to dropping out of higher education and a self-perceived failure at weight loss that takes us to the heart of the fashion industry's historic problem with diversity. This is a fascinating, open-hearted conversation. Thank you, Edward. And rush out to buy his memoir now!

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A Visible Man by Edward Enninful is out now and available to buy here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-visible-man/edward-enninful/9781526657015

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email [email protected]

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Social Media:

Elizabeth Day @elizabday

How To Fail @howtofailpod

Edward Enninful @edward_enninful

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0:30.4	Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.
0:47.6	The podcast that celebrates the things that haven't gone right.
0:52.0	This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding that why we fail ultimately
0:57.6	makes us stronger.
0:59.5	Because learning how to fail in life actually means learning how to succeed better.
1:04.6	I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth Day and every week I'll be asking a new
1:10.3	interviewee what they've learned from failure.
1:14.1	Edward Ennandful describes himself as an outsider who found his way to the inner sanctum.
1:20.9	He was born in Ghana to a seamstress mother and a military father, one of six children.
1:26.3	The family emigrated to the UK when he was a teenager.
1:30.4	Shortly afterwards, Ennandful was spotted on the tube and asked to model.
1:35.2	And shortly after that, he became the youngest ever fashion director of a national magazine
1:40.5	at ID.
1:42.2	Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell became some of his closest friends.
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