American Vogue enlists Loving actress Ruth Negga to star in the cover story of their January 2017 edition captured by fashion photographer Mario Testino. In charge of styling was Tonne Goodman, who for the session selected looks from the likes of Alexander Wang, Rodarte, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Louis Vuitton, Christopher Kane, Rebecca de Ravenel, Christian Louboutin, and Gucci. Beauty is work of hair stylist Christiaan and makeup artist Mark Carrasquillo at Art Partner.
“I remember thinking, I’m just me. When you’re a kid, you’re just you, aren’t you? It was when I moved to England that I felt it, because I was Irish and black. I didn’t have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn’t grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.” – Negga on feel different for being Irish-Ethiopian.
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