As one of the leaders of the London fashion scene, it’s fitting that Kai-Isaiah Jamal’s ES magazine cover shoot is taking place at a West London location house called “The White House”.
Having been called “the voice of their generation” by the late Louis Vuitton creative director Virgil Abloh (and immortalised in a supersize statute in the brand’s Miami shopfront), made history as the first trans non-binary model to be nominated for Model of the Year at last year’s British Fashion Awards, and served as the Institute of Contemporary Art’s first-ever poet in residence in 2020 - Jamal just exudes a presidential aura. But unlike many of the politicians representing us today, Jamal actually stands for something.
