Chioma Nnadi

1 week ago | vogue.com | Chioma Nnadi

There’s music in the air at Louis Vuitton’s menswear HQ in Paris. Swelling piano chords float along office hallways, buoying along a soulful, unmistakable falsetto—a voice that’s launched a thousand hits. “I stay in a flow state,” says Pharrell Williams from his light-filled executive suite turned recording studio, pausing mid-song to swivel away from his piano keyboard. “It’s like when you get in a place of absolute disconnection with the exception of what you’re focused on in your brain.

1 week ago | vogue.co.uk | Chioma Nnadi

There are few things I appreciate more in life than live music. And though these days I don’t have what it takes to camp out in a muddy field for the love of gigs, there was a time when festivals were my absolute happy place. I remember going to Coachella for the first time in the 2000s – back then you could still buy a day pass and breeze into Palm Springs from Los Angeles on a whim, which is exactly what me and a few friends did, a last-minute birthday wish on my part.

1 month ago | vogue.co.uk | Chioma Nnadi

As a life-long vintage fashion lover, I can honestly say that nothing compares to the thrill of the chase of my first adventures in charity shopping. As a teenager, I spent many a lunch break – and, frankly, all of my pocket money – trawling the racks of The Salvation Army across the street from my secondary school in London’s Victoria. Back then, the odds of unearthing some extraordinary treasure were just exponentially higher.

1 month ago | vogue.pl | Chioma Nnadi

Nie wierzyłam w astrologię aż do 18. roku życia, gdy moja matka umówiła mnie na czytanie horoskopu z ekscentryczną astrolożką o imieniu Fritz. Podczas 90-minutowej sesji Fritz uchyliła mi rąbka tajemnicy. Wszystkie moje cechy – od nerdowskiej obsesji na punkcie mangi po specyficzny styl ubierania się – wydawały się zapisane w gwiazdach.

2 months ago | vogue.co.uk | Chioma Nnadi

Nothing ever stands still in fashion for long. Each season new ideas proliferate on the runway, only to be submerged by the next round of shows in a matter of months. Still, I can’t recall a time in recent fashion history that has seen as much seismic change as this current moment. In the last year alone, there has been a staggering number of new creative director appointments at major fashion brands – some seasoned vets, others young designers stepping into the spotlight for the first time.