British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful has addressed speculation that he is next in line to take the editorial seat at Vogue journal at present occupied by Anna Wintour.
“Everybody focuses on American Vogue. Everybody wants to know what I’m doing, but I would like to tell you that I don’t want Anna’s job. I’ve spoken to her about it a few weeks ago,” he stated throughout an unique interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in London on Monday.
Rumors about Wintour’s impending departure come and go as commonly as vogue weeks, however she and and Vogue’s mum or dad firm Condé Nast proceed to bat them away.
When pressed, Enninful stated that if he was provided the job atop American Vogue’s masthead he would say “not today.” He additionally reiterated that Wintour has no plans to step down any time quickly, revealing that that they had spoken on the topic whereas at Paris Fashion Week in early October.
Since taking the helm at British Vogue in 2017, Enninful has been extensively praised for bringing extra range to the journal’s covers. He at present additionally serves as Condé Nast’s European editorial director.
“I can really do better in the world than maybe I can on one magazine.”
Edward Enninful
Edward Enninful and Anna Wintour on the Richard Quinn Fall-Winter 2022 present throughout London Fashion Week in February 2022. Credit: David M. Benett/Getty Images
Enninful minimize his enamel at youth tradition title i-D journal, the place he was made vogue director at simply 18 years of age. Enninful was awarded an OBE for his providers to range within the vogue business in 2016.
The Ghanaian-born editor, who immigrated to the UK within the 1980s, has been candid about his private experiences with racism within the vogue business through the years, together with an incident of racial profiling which happened at Vogue headquarters in London in 2020, when he was requested by a safety guard to enter the constructing through the loading bay, relatively than the entrance door. “It just goes to show that sometimes it doesn’t matter what you’ve achieved in the course of your life: The first thing that some people will judge you on is the colour of your skin,” he stated through his social media on the time.
Many of those experiences are detailed in Enninful’s new memoir “A Visible Man,” which he is been busy selling in latest months whereas attending Spring-Summer 2023 vogue reveals throughout New York, London, Milan and Paris.
Though Enninful made it clear American Vogue was not at present on the playing cards, there should still be change on the horizon.
He admitted that whereas touring his guide around the globe he realized he “can really do better in the world than maybe I can on one magazine.”
When requested if he’d proceed in his present roles, Enninful stated “Well we’re working on that right now, we’re working it all out right now. But I know whatever I do will be very creative because that’s my strength.”