Edward Enninful, the former editor of British Vogue, and the first Black editor in chief in Condé Nast’s history, walks into Esmé’s, a tiny cottage on the grounds of London’s Kensington Roof Gardens, dressed head-to-toe in 90s black.
The fashion-industry stalwart greets me exuberantly, placing a copy of 72, his new quarterly magazine, on the table. It is one arm of EE72, the media company he co-founded with his sister Akua, named for his initials and birth year. “Doesn’t she look beautiful?” he sighs, stroking Kate Moss’s face on the cover, where Nick Knight has reimagined her as Marilyn Monroe. The alternate cover, shot by Juergen Teller, features his close friend Diane von Furstenberg lounging in a Venetian palazzo.
