Julia Sarr-Jamois

Sarr-Jamois was born November 1987 and raised in Brixton, South London^[1][2] to a French mother and Senagelese father.^[3] She suffered racial abuse as a child; while at a French Lycée school in London, other students would leave bananas on her desk and say her mother was not really her mother because she was white. Sarr-Jamois subsequently left the Lycée at age 6 and switched to a local Brixton state school.^[4]

Sarr-Jamois started modeling at the age of 17^[5] for companies such as Fred Perry and Diesel.^[6] At the age of 19, Sarr-Jamois joined i-D magazine and went on to become its senior fashion editor.^[7]

In 2018, Sarr-Jamois joined Vogue as fashion editor. She is the youngest women to receive the position, and the first Black woman in the role.^[8][9]