Campbell seeks Vogue for Africa

Naomi Campbell has asked Vogue bosses to offer readers in Africa their own edition.

The supermodel attending the recent Arise Fashion Week in Lagos, Nigeria, said she noticed a gap in the fashion market.

Campbell, 47, claims the continent lacks proper representation in style and fashion, and she is urging Vogue to consider adding an African edition.

“Africa has never had the opportunity to be out there and their fabrics and their materials and their designs be accepted on the global platform ...,” Campbell told Reuters. “It shouldn’t be that way.

“There should be a Vogue Africa. We just had Vogue Arabia — it is the next progression. It has to be,” she said, making reference to a new edition of the magazine which launched in the Middle East last March.

Bosses at Condé Nast International, the company which publishes Vogue, have yet to respond to the British model’s comments, but they are clearly adopting diversity.

A year ago, Conde Nast appointed black stylist Edward Enninful as British Vogue’s editor-in-chief. The Ghanaian is the first black editor in the publication’s 100-year history and also the first man to take on the role.

As well, Louis Vuitton executives just hired Ghanaian-American Virgil Abloh — a designer, DJ, creative director to Kanye West and founder of streetwear brand Off — White — to design its menswear collections. she said.