Editor Of Vogue (Edward Enninful OBE): How To Become No.1 In Your Industry Against All The Odds!

It feels like you've lived an impossible life. But with it came all the time I just needed to be able to look at myself and not Hate myself. The first black man to become editor in chief of British Vogue. One of the fashion industry's biggest names. He's single handedly changing the face of fashion. In your book, you talk about understanding that you gay from a very young age. Had your father knew, you would have slipped your throat. I grew up petrifying him.

Each day I was being told you're going to be a lawyer or a doctor. I knew that wasn't gonna happen. At the age of 13 I came from another country. 16 I was modeling. 18 I was an editor. It was quite fast. Work was everything for me. There was this notion that women of colour on covers don't sell. I knew I would need to do something about it. I didn't just create a magazine that looked good, but it's so financially successful. It's just so consumed work and work was where I felt like an imposter. Really? I mean I never look at anything I've done and think this is amazing. I wouldn't sleep that leads you to drinking and that leads you to drugs. You always have to fight.

But that fight comes at a cost. I woke up one day and I saw these black markings in my vision. I was so scared. I knew after that that I had to change my life. You sit here as one of the most successful people in your industry. What would fifty one year old Edward say to eighteen year old Edward? The one regret I do have is It feels like you've lived and travelled An impossible life.

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