Alexandra Shulman’s accounts of life as the former editor of British Vogue, Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries, or US Vogue’s André Leon Talley’s autobiography The Chiffon Trenches.
Said tomes propelled many of us through lockdown, vicarious dressing a means of escaping dismal sweatpantery.For these (air) kiss-and-tell accounts tend to be as fabulously entertaining as they are plain fabulous: tall tales of the high-heeled, fatter than the social x-rays whose exploits they celebrate.
In the case of Edward Enninful, who took over from Shulman in 2017, his autobiography has the added intrigue of their acrimonious crossover.
Given its subject’s renown as king of image-making, A Visible Man is let down by the pomp with which it is presented. The preface issues from the Meghan Markle school of po-faced self-aggrandising.
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