“I think the newer generation is showing us that you can have a completely individual relationship with what the word femininity means. And that’s really liberating.”
“Do we ever consider that maybe having a hairy upper lip isn’t actually making a political statement?” asks Vogue’s beauty and wellness director, Funmi Fetto. “Maybe, on that particular day, the woman just couldn’t be arsed.”
After a terrifying brush with death, Anok Yai thought her career was over. But now, back in front of the camera and with a renewed set of priorities, the 28-year-old runway star tells Funmi Fetto how she’s rebuilding a life in colour. Photographs by Rafael Pavarotti. Styling by Kate Phelan.
The 27-year-old author’s dark, adrenaline-soaked debut is about an avenging antiheroine who “murders bad men in the ways women themselves are so often murdered”.
The first major solo exhibition of Kira Freije’s work in the UK opens next week. Funmi Fetto meets her in the December 2025 issue of British Vogue. Photographs by Niall Hodson.
The opening of ‘Nigerian Modernism’ at Tate Modern momentarily readjusted London’s cultural temperature, says Funmi Fetto, who adds that it reflects a wider shift that has rightly placed Nigeria at the forefront of the global art scene.
