Naomi Campbell Talked Motherhood With Edward Enninful

Last night, the sixth annual edition of Vogue’s Forces of Fashion summit arrived in the UK: an evening of inspiring conversation with leading figureheads and innovative creatives from the fashion industry at Rosewood London, in partnership with Snapchat.

British Vogue’s editor-in chief and Vogue’s European editorial director, Edward Enninful, was joined on stage by his close friend and iconic supermodel, Naomi Campbell, to discuss her new role as a mother, her activism, and of course, her decades-spanning career in the fashion industry. Guests in attendance for the discussion – entitled “Her Body On Her Own Terms” – heard Naomi reflect on the prospect of a future in fashion for her baby daughter, who appears with the super on British Vogue’s March 2022 cover. “She can do whatever she wants,” said Campbell. “I’ll never, ever tell my child – or any child – that they can’t do what they want to.”

Naomi’s latest British Vogue cover shoot was a major talking point on the night – a moment the model revealed she found nerve-wracking, despite all her years in front of the camera. “Knowing you all for so many years and decades, [knowing you were] seeing me in that different mode of being a mother, I was a bit nervous. So when my daughter arrived, I was just like oh my goodness, but she looked straight down the lens, and then she turned and that’s the picture you all see. It was so quick.”

Additional highlights from the night included a panel discussion about the evolution of digital fashion, body image and shifting beauty ideals, led by British Vogue’s global director of talent and casting, Rosie Vogel-Eades, model and body positivity activist Charli Howard, and the global head of fashion and beauty at Snapchat, Rajni Jacques.