Vogue Italia: You In 1st Place
My Roles: Creative/Art Director (Image, Digital, Editorial)
Black women are often reduced to symbols and seen through narrow narratives that overlook the depth of their lived experience, strength, and individuality.
Power isn’t always performative; it’s carried. In presence, in softness, in endurance. When that internal knowing is made visible, representation shifts from abstraction to truth.
You In 1st Place is an ode to the power and presence of the Black woman. A visual meditation on strength made visible.
What begins as an internal sense of resilience and sureness becomes form: in the way she stands, the way she looks back, the way she keeps going. Through image and emotion, the work reimagines visibility. Not as symbolism, but as lived experience.
The result is a portrait of perseverance where she is not an idea, but a living testament to her own becoming.
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Photographer: Naomieh Jovn
Model: Lu Faustin
Stylist: Marion Kelly
Stylist Assistant: Taija Williams
MakeUp: Ernest Robinson
Nails: Astrid Curet