Date Posted: Monday 10th April 2017
Edward Enninful has been appointed as editor at British Vogue, succeeding Alexandra Schulman, effective 1 August. Edward has been creative and fashion director of the American magazine W since 2011. His experience as a fashion editor dates back to 1991 when he was named fashion director of i-D at the age of 19, a position he held for more than 20 years. In the years between 1998 and 2011 he contributed extensively to Vogue US and Italian Vogue. He was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth last year, and in 2014 was named fashion creator of the year by the British Fashion Council.
Edward was brought to London from Ghana as a child and grew up in the city's Ladbroke Grove area. He became interested in fashion as a teenager when he was scouted as a fashion model. He displayed a talent for fashion styling as a teenager, which led the then editor of i-D, Terry Jones, to appoint him as the magazine's fashion director, the youngest in the industry. He attended Goldsmith's, University of London, well known for its art programmes, but left before graduation to pursue a full-time into a fashion editing career.
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