EDITOR’S LETTER
Creativity is such… an interesting process, don’t you think? I will always be intrigued by the ways in which an idea becomes a reality. Take, for example, how this month’s cover story came to be. Firstly, in early July, I was at the couture shows in Paris. Of course, haute couture is always a divine whirlwind of lavish otherworldliness, but this season I was especially struck by the collections’ stunning sense of fantasy. A spark was lit. Unrelated to this, a few days later I happened to be thinking about Jourdan Dunn, the much-loved British model and general force for good. In these days of improved representation in fashion, I recalled how, in the late Noughties, Jourdan had been one of the very few black girls to really break through in the…