Liya Kebede Covers Vogue Italia December 2023, Lensed by Campbell Addy AOC Fashion

Global citizen, top model, actor and Lemlem philanthropist Liya Kebede covers the December 2023 issue of Vogue Italia [IG]. Ethiopian-born, Kebede has served as a WHO Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health since 2005 and now lives in New York.

In a creative narrative twist, Liya Kebede poses in an artwork by Milan-based artist Jem Perucchini [above], who is also of Ethiopian heritage. Liya wears YSL in that image, styled by Paris-based Ally Macrae, who worked on the entire fashion shoot.

Kebede was photographed by Campbell Addy [IG], who will receive the Isabella Blow Award for Fashion Creator at The Fashion Awards, which take place Dec. 4 at Royal Albert Hall in London.

The impression sought by Campbell Addy for the fashion shoot involved interpreting Kebede a Queen of Sheba with the most classic insignia of sovereignty, the sphere.

In 2012, the Harvard Divinity School’s bulletin weighed in with an essay by Wafaa Abdulaali, which underscores the significance of the Queen of Sheba. She is “one of the very few female figures who appear in the sacred texts of all three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”