Adesuwa Aighewi Brings 'Interstellar' Beauty Lensed By Daniel Sannwald For Numéro 195
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Chinese-Nigerian model Adesuwa Aighewi is styled by Samuel François in other-worldly 'Interstellar' images by Daniel Sannwald for Numéro #195 August 2018 cover story. / Hair by Tina Outen; makeup by Bea Sweet
Dazed Digital published a June 2018 interview with Aighewi:
Aighewi was born in Minnesota and grew up in Benin City, the capital of Nigeria’s Edo State, but enjoyed a peripatetic upbringing, courtesy of her Chinese mother and Nigerian father’s jobs as environmental scientists. Discovered on campus while undertaking a chemistry degree at Prince George’s County, Maryland, she put modelling on hold in order to finish her studies, before eventually decamping to Los Angeles to focus on her burgeoning career in fashion.
“I’ve learned a lot about myself and the world to a certain extent; I went from getting recognition (for) my intellect to a heavy focus on the physical and it really did my head in,” she says. “I never cared about the way I looked, but being in fashion that’s all there is. I had to learn how to carry and present myself to the world visually and conduct myself as such.”
