My London: Adwoa Aboah

The model wants to fill the capital’s streets with blossom and would love to spend the night at the Aquarium...
Dipal Acharya15 June 2017

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New York, but in London it’s my mum and dad’s in Ladbroke Grove.

Best meal you’ve had in London?

At the River Café for my 23rd birthday. It’s got the best truffle pasta and chocolate cake.

Most romantic thing someone’s done for you?

Someone did take me to the last ever dog races in London recently. It was freezing but he’d planned ahead and brought me a jumper. I thought that was quite sweet.

Favourite shops?

Palace for skate stuff, Dover Street Market — it’s just stunning there and it’s got lots of Comme [des Garçons]. And Westfield because it’s great for Christmas shopping; you can get it all done in one go.

If you had to be locked in a building overnight, which would it be?

The Aquarium. Think about how beautiful it would be to turn off all the lights and be down with all the fish and the sharks!

Biggest extravagance?

That’s easy — clothes. Take my birthday outfit from Miu Miu. I don’t know why it was so expensive. It was basically just underwear.

What are you up to at the moment?

Planning a big event for online social platform Gurls Talk in London for early July and I’ve just finished shooting a new Gap campaign with Edward Enninful. I’m so proud of his Vogue appointment.

Last play you saw?

People, Places and Things. It was my story being told on the stage — and the story of so many people I’ve met.

What would you do as Mayor for the day?

I would plant loads of blossom trees on every road. They only put them on the really big double-fronted window streets but they make such a difference. I think they should go on all the streets.

Earliest London memory?

Roller-blading in Hyde Park with my dad and sister, aged about seven. We’d do it every weekend. I had to rollerblade for a recent Love shoot and I still had it.

Best piece of advice you’ve been given?

Mum said, ‘Manners are the only things in life that are free.’ That’s always carried me.

If you could buy any London building which would it be?

Trellick Tower is the most beautiful building in England. I’d live there.

Favourite club?

Before it closed, it was Lotte Andersen’s club night Maxilla. It was round the corner from my house and it was complete carnage. Just dancing non-stop.

Last album you downloaded?

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. — I am just obsessed with him (left). He is 2017’s Tupac. He’s a poet and an all-round amazing man.

Who is your hero?

Gloria Steinem. I’ve got so many. Women are my heroes.

Adwoa Aboah stars in Gap’s latest campaign ‘Bridging The Gap’, directed by Edward Enninful

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