Alongside her 20-year-strong modelling career and a foray into acting, there is her role as a World Health Organisation (WHO) goodwill ambassador and her lifestyle brand Lemlem (meaning “to bloom” and “flourish” in Amharic), which she launched in 2007 as an effort to reinvigorate artisanal handweaving practices in her birth country, Ethiopia. She is candid about the dangers of social media, the state of fashion and, yes, politics – though only because everything seems political when the world is on fire.īesides, Kebede, who showed up today looking low-key in an oversized pinstripe shirt, a hooded parka and trainers, has long been an engaged citizen.
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I say rendezvous because interview sounds far too formal for an encounter with Kebede: I have talking points, but we regularly go off-piste, over coffee and bagels, and talk about what everyone is talking about now: the TV shows she’s bingeing on – The Loudest Voice and Succession the books she’s reading – several by Ursula Le Guin and a non-fiction crib, How to Read Literature. It’s a typically dreary autumn afternoon in Paris and we’re nearing the end of our rendezvous in the dinky corner café run by the Shakespeare & Company bookshop on the Left Bank, a local haunt of the supermodel and entrepreneur, where she can take refuge and “cocoon” herself. What a strange moment,” says Liya Kebede in a calm but incredulous manner.
“It’s so scary everywhere it’s like chaos! Look at Hong Kong… Brexit… Trump – it’s endless.
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