For three decades, the world has been trying to define her. But the supermodel and activist would prefer to do things on her own terms.
An important part of the mythos surrounding Naomi Campbell—supermodel, activist, fashion icon, occasional hothead—lies in her origin story. You probably already know it by now, but just to recap: Campbell, 15, a schoolgirl hailing from the fairly unremarkable streets of London’s Streatham neighborhood, was spotted by a model scout while out window-shopping in London’s West End.
She has just come off the back of a dizzying few weeks of travel, a period that saw her jet from Milan to Miami, Miami to London, London to Egypt , back to London again for the British Fashion Awards, then on to the Senegalese capital of Dakar to witness Chanel’s first-ever runway show in sub-Saharan Africa. Then Saudi Arabia to London. London to New York. Back to London. Soon, she will head back to the Middle East and then on to Senegal again for vacation.
That work is no longer—and hasn’t been for some time—solely modeling. A significant part of Campbell’s time is now spent engaging in a mixture of activism, philanthropy, and cultural ambassadorship, often via Fashion for Relief, the nonprofit she founded in 2005 to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which has since gone on to raise more than $15 million for charitable causes worldwide.
In May of 2021, Campbell announced she had welcomed a daughter. “It wasn’t about when,” she says. “Everyone’s life takes a different course. And it’s about whom, and it’s a very important question because you want to make sure that you do that with the right person. [You’re] connected for the rest of your life.” She pauses for what feels like much longer than a few seconds. “That’s why I chose to do it alone.
In the coming days, she will travel to Senegal for a vacation, and though Campbell frequently refers to herself as a “global citizen,” it’s clear that this is the part of the world that truly has her heart. “The minute I land in Africa, I feel … well, one thing we don’t have is racism.
In 2020, the fashion world responded to the global Black Lives Matter protests, as well as the charged conversations about racism that followed, by pledging greater diversity and more BIPOC representation at senior levels of the industry. A year later, a survey conducted byrevealed that, overall, little had changed.
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