The
Duchess of Sussex is the guest editor for September’s British Vogue and has
brought together her 15 most inspirational women for a striking front cover.
Meghan, however, won’t be featuring on it
herself as she thought it would be a ‘boastful’ act, according to the
magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.
This is the first time anyone has guest
edited the fashion bible’s September edition – the biggest and most important
one of the year.
The Duchess felt passionate about having an
all-female cover and called on the likes of climate change campaigner Greta
Thunberg, UK actress Jameela Jamil, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda
Arden.
Entitled Forces For Change, the special
edition features ‘trailblazing changemakers, united by their fearlessness in
breaking barriers,’ said Buckingham Palace.
Meghan, who has been working on the project
for the past seven months, helped design the inspirational front page which is
divided into 16 boxes of individual pictures of the stars.
But the seemingly blank 16th spot on the
cover is actually a mirror, which aims to include the reader and encourage them
to use their own platforms to bring about change.
The Duchess of Sussex said she hopes readers
feel as inspired by the magazine as she does, with September’s cover featuring
a mix of campaigning actors, models, a dancer, an author and a prime minister.
Stars include prime minister of New Zealand
Jacinda Ardern, actors Salma Hayek Pinault, Laverne Cox, Jameela Jamil, Yara
Shahidi and Gemma Chan, and models Christy Turlington Burns, Adwoa Aboah and
Adut Akech. Boxer Ramla Ali, diversity advocate Sinead Burke, Royal Ballet
principal dancer Francesca Hayward, and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie, make up the 15 chosen stars.
Highlights of the edition include a
conversation between Meghan and former first lady of the United States, Michelle
Obama, along with an interview between ethologist and primatologist Dr Jane
Goodall and her husband, the Duke of Sussex.
Meghan said: ‘These last seven months have
been a rewarding process, curating and collaborating with Edward Enninful,
British Vogue’s editor-in-chief, to take the year’s most-read fashion issue and
steer its focus to the values, causes and people making impact in the world
today.
‘Through this lens I hope you’ll feel the
strength of the collective in the diverse selection of women chosen for the
cover as well as the team of support I called upon within the issue to help
bring this to light.
‘I hope readers feel as inspired as I do, by
the forces for change they’ll find within these pages.’
Enninful said it was a ‘privilege’ to have the
Duchess of Sussex He said: ‘To have the country’s most influential beacon of
change guest edit British Vogue at this time has been an honour, a pleasure and
a wonderful surprise.
‘As you will see from her selections
throughout this magazine, she is also willing to wade into more complex and
nuanced areas, whether they concern female empowerment, mental health, race or
privilege.
‘From the very beginning, we talked about the
cover – whether she would be on it or not.
In the end, she felt that it would be in some
ways a “boastful” thing to do for this particular project. ‘She wanted,
instead, to focus on the women she admires.’
The Duchess of Cambridge adorned the front of
Vogue’s centenary issue in 2016. In 2009, a documentary film called The
September Issue gave a behind the scenes look as US editor-in-chief Anna
Wintour and creative director Grace Coddington worked together on the 2007 US
edition of the magazine.
The
September issue of British Vogue is available on Friday August 2.
Source: Metro.co.ku
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