Adwoa Aboah is both the poster girl for modern fashion and one of its most vocal critics. The 25-year-old model, who walked the Burberry catwalk on Saturday and Donatella Versace’s Versus show on Sunday, leads discussions around issues from imagery of black women in the media to the impact of social media’s hyperphotogenic visual culture on self esteem on Gurls Talk, the online platform she founded which now has 100,000 Instagram followers.
At London fashion week, real talk is the new air-kissing. The rise of Aboah, recently named a contributing editor at Edward Enninful’s British Vogue and GQ’s Woman of the Year, symbolises an unexpected taste for candour which is emerging in an industry long built on the pursuit of unattainable perfection.
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