British Vogue Features Adut Akech, Eight Other Black Models In Debut February Issue

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• January 14, 2022
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British Vogue has revealed its February 2022 cover featuring nine black women who are ‘redefining what it means to be a model’.

It is the first time Vogue has featured a group of black women this size on the cover as the issue celebrates the rise of the African model and talks to some of those ‘redrawing the map’ and shoots the women with a dark lighting scheme.

The issue features models, Adut Akech, Amar Akway, Majesty Amare, Akon Changkou, Maty Fall, Janet Jumbo, Abény Nhial, Nyagua Ruea and Anok Yai.

In one shot, the models sit on a green sofa wearing bright colours which pop against the low lighting, while in the cover shot all nine models wear all-black outfits.    

Explaining the inspiration behind shooting an all-black, all-African cover, British Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful OBE, who was born in Ghana and moved to west London as a child,  said: ‘I saw all these incredible models from across Africa who were just so vivacious and smart. 

‘These girls are redefining what it is to be a fashion model.’ 

‘We need to ensure these girls last. We have to invest in them, nurture them, and support them with editorial, with advertising, with shows.’      

‘It’s sad and heartbreaking for me to see girls who are on the rise suddenly taper off. 

‘We need to ensure these girls last. We have to invest in them, nurture them, and support them with editorial, with advertising, with shows. It has to be 360. Alek Wek didn’t suddenly become Alek Wek. 

‘There was a group of us behind girls like her, propelling them forward. This is what we have to do in all our different roles. Getting these girls and then throwing them away after one season? That has to stop.’

South Sudanese-Australian model, Adut Akech is described by Vogue as ‘arguably the most successful African model working today.

Akech shone into limelight in 2017 when she modelled for Saint Laurent in the Spring Summer Shows.

She dated popular Nigerian singer, Runtown for about a year before their relationship ended in 2021.