Model, activist, ambassador, mum Adwoa Aboah was honored as ‘Woman of the Year’ at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2025 in London on October 30, 2025.

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Today we find her on British Vogue’s [IG] inaugural ‘Best Dressed List, celebrating the 50 models, actors, musicians and more who are shaping the fashion zeitgeist.

Aboah is also on a digital December issue British Vogue cover and solo fashion story, styled by Tabitha Simmons in Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Phoebe Philo, Prada, Sacai, Tom Ford, Totem, Victoria Beckham and more.

Dan Jackson [IG] photographs Aboah’s fashion shoot with an interview by Alice Newbold.

To the extent that today’s models — compared to their predecessors — tend to just stand there looking aloof, Adwoa Aboah puts some serious energy into her craft.

When it comes to Adwoa Aboah, the woman you might think you ‘know’ — and we use ‘know’ loosely — she has evolved in some spectacular ways.

Emily Ratajkowski and Adwoa Aboah are tighter than super glue as besties and working mothers. Everywhere we look today, Chanel joy by Matthieu Blazy is rockin’ and it appears in this interview, as a double whammy, articulated by Simmons in reference to Chanel images in this fashion shoot:

Not everyone could put a fresh spin on Matthieu Blazy’s first iteration of the classic Chanel suit – the same one Michelle Obama wore to launch her new book – but on Adwoa, with her trademark tattoos and constellation of freckles, a check wool trouser suit suddenly becomes the thing.

Vogue.com notes that Michelle Obama wore Loewe to an earlier event, with a special and endearing detail:

“Inside the dress, a special custom tag simply read: “For Mrs. Obama.”’

When your Vogue headline is Michelle Obama Is the Perfect Partner in Matthieu Blazy’s Modern Chanel Suiting, momentum and big love from lady customers are on your side. AOC knows that Dior now wants the sweet young things, but that Vogue headline is mighty good business.

Now if Adwoa Aboah’s magnetic personality [see the IG video] manages to get Michelle Obama in her Tom Ford by Haider Ackermann blue suit, the seas may part in Aboah’s presence. But we digress.

We learn that Aboah’s partner, filmmaker and skateboarder Daniel Wheatley has gently discouraged any more new projects after ‘The Veil’ [IG], her new fancy handbag label:

“He was like, ‘Maybe when Shy is five you can start another project.’”

Adwoa has a long list to nurture: starting with Gurls Talk. The community-led mental health charity she founded in 2015 is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Her now dream is for Gurls Talk to have a permanent place in the British school system – be it in the form of an after-school club or a lunch program.

Adwoa makes readers very aware that she is conscious that, in another 10 years, their daughter Shy will start secondary education. Her mum hopes the school offers the pastoral care to make her daughter feel safe, ending the interview with an important goal: