He quit a Vogue job nobody quits. Can Edward Enninful build something bigger?

London —

Edward Enninful’s farewell cover for the March 2024 issue of British Vogue, marking the end of his six-year tenure as editor-in-chief, featured 40 very famous women : Jane Fonda, Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, Cindy Crawford, Victoria Beckham, Naomi Campbell — the list went on and on.

Getting that crowd of Hollywood actors, supermodels, fashion designers and athletes in the same room for a group photo was a feat of complex calendar logistics requiring diplomacy and considerable industry sway.

Few editors could have pulled it off. But few editors could boast the career he’d had up to that point.

Enninful had worked in fashion publishing for decades before stepping into the top job at British Vogue . He started out, while still in his teens, at youth culture magazine i-D