and edward enninful.y show," with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: what's going on, everybody. welcome to "the daily show." i'm trevor noah. thank you so much for tuning in. thank you for coming out in person. thank you so much. thank you so much. thank you so much. thank you so much. take a seat. let's do it. we've got a really great show for you tonight. the war in ukraine is about to go nuclear. the new iphone can tell you when you've died. and barack obama is back in the white house. so let's do this, people. let's jump straight into today's headlines. ( cheers and applause ). >> trevor: all right. before we get into the big stories, let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world. first up, the e-cigarette company juul has agreed to pay a settlement of nearly half a billion dollars for marketing their product to teenagers. and, obviously, this is really bad for the company. yeah. $500 million. the whole business has gone up in strawberry-flavored smoke. laugh this is great n

now to the inspirational story of edward enninful.m. he's the editor—in—chief of british vogue, challenging convention at every turn making far more space in the magazine for black and older women. he's been speaking to our media editor amol rajan. edward enninful is an unlikely figure at the summit of international fashion and media. the editor of british vogue came to this country from ghana as a teenager seeking asylum. black, working class, gay, and beset with several long—term health conditions, enninful has tried to use his platform to challenge convention. for years, there was a very narrow idea of what a fashion model should be. itjust didn't make sense to me, business—wise or culturally, not to reflect the world we lived in. he has raised the profile of british vogue, featuring more black and older women. you came of age at a similar time in fashion to people like naomi campbell and kate moss. i mean, i met kate when i was 16 and she was 1a and we went to a casting, and i remember she walked in and the... she literally charme

but the story of edward enninful wasn't always this glamorous.an." >> the title of my book reflects the fact i was supposed to be invisible, a black refugee, but that made me want to be seen. >> reporter: we meet up with him at industry hot spot dover street market in london. you described yourself as a shy kid who just got contact lenses for the first time 16 years old, gets asked to be a model and then two years later you're fashion director of id, the youngest fashion director that ever was, i think still is. what were those two years like. >> it was overwhelming, exciting, scary. you can either sink or swim and do the best you can. and really that's my motto to this day. >> reporter: but with all his success came challenges, like struggles with addiction, his health, and the racism he says he faced in a very white fashion industry. >> as an institution, do you feel as if fashion still has a big problem with racism? >> i'll say fashion has a racism problem, but the world has a problem with racism. and i feel fashion always, you know, reflects

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edward enninful is an unlikely figure at the summit of international fashion and media.sylum. black, working class, gay, and beset with several long—term health conditions, enninful has tried to use his platform to challenge convention. for years, there was a very narrow idea of what a fashion model should be. itjust didn't make sense to me, business—wise or culturally, not to reflect the world we lived in. he has raised the profile of british vogue, featuring more black and older women. you came of age at a similar time in fashion to people like naomi campbell and kate moss. i mean, i met kate when i was 16 and she was 1a and we went to a casting, and i remember she walked in and the... she literally charmed the whole room. naomi always thought she was going to be a star from when she was a baby. you know, they really are who they are. authentic. enninful has tackled alcohol problems and depression. his father kicked him out of the family home for choosing fashion over the law. the pair didn't speak for 15 years. when you went to really dark places, how bad did it get b

from child refugee to influentialfashionista — we speak to edward enninful, editor in chief of britishenforced absence.