When Nadine Ijewere got the call from British Vogue, she was on the top deck of a bus. The number 53, she thinks – it was all a blur. She thought she was on her way to talk to the magazine’s then editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, and its senior contributing fashion editor, Kate Phelan, about her first fashion story for the venerable publication – an exciting prospect for any up-and-coming photographer. But Phelan let her know that Enninful was about to ask her to shoot the cover – a blockbuster featuring Dua Lipa, the actor Letitia Wright and model Binx Walton.
“I was like, huh?” Ijewere says. “In my head I kept going: ‘What the fuck, I can’t believe this is happening!’”
