Vogue’s Edward Enninful addresses hypothesis about his subsequent job

British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful has addressed hypothesis that he is subsequent in line to take the editorial seat at Vogue journal at the moment occupied by Anna Wintour.

“Everyone focuses on American Vogue. Everyone desires to know what I am doing, however I want to let you know that I do not need Anna’s job. I’ve spoken to her about it just a few weeks in the past,” he mentioned 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 trend weeks, however she and and Vogue’s guardian firm Condé Nast proceed to bat them away.

When pressed, Enninful mentioned that if he was supplied the job atop American Vogue’s masthead he would say “not at present.” He additionally reiterated that Wintour has no plans to step down any time quickly, revealing that they’d spoken on the topic whereas at Paris Trend Week in early October.

Since taking the helm at British Vogue in 2017, Enninful has been broadly praised for bringing extra variety to the journal’s covers. He at the moment additionally serves as Condé Nast’s European editorial director.

Enninful lower his tooth at youth tradition title i-D journal, the place he was made trend director at simply 18 years of age. Enninful was awarded an OBE for his companies to variety within the trend business in 2016.

The Ghanaian-born editor, who immigrated to the UK within the Eighties, has been candid about his private experiences with racism within the trend business through the years, together with an incident of racial profiling which occurred at Vogue headquarters in London in 2020, when he was requested by a safety guard to enter the constructing by way of the loading bay, quite than the entrance door. “It simply goes to point out that generally it does not matter what you’ve got achieved in the midst of your life: The very first thing that some folks will decide you on is the color of your pores and skin,” he mentioned by way of his social media on the time.

Many of those experiences are detailed in Enninful’s new memoir “A Seen Man,” which he is been busy selling in current months whereas attending Spring-Summer season 2023 trend exhibits throughout New York, London, Milan and Paris.

Although Enninful made it clear American Vogue was not at the moment on the playing cards, there should be change on the horizon.

He admitted that whereas touring his guide all over the world he realized he “can actually do higher on this planet than possibly I can on one journal.”

When requested if he’d proceed in his present roles, Enninful mentioned “Properly we’re engaged on that proper now, we’re working all of it out proper now. However I do know no matter I do can be very artistic as a result of that is my power.”