Kesewa Aboah
Kesewa Aboah | |
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| Born | Kesewa Arbell Lavinia Aboah May 1994 (age 30) Westminster, London, England[2] |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | School of Visual Arts |
| Parent | Camilla Lowther (mother) |
| Relatives | Adwoa Aboah (sister) |
| Modelling information | |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Hair colour | Brown |
| Eye colour | Brown |
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Kesewa Arbell Lavinia Aboah (born May 1994) is a British artist and model.[3]
Early life and family
[edit]Aboah was born in London, England, to Charles Aboah, a Ghanaian location scout in the fashion industry and former barrister clerk, and Camilla Lowther, a British fashion businesswoman and talent manager. Her maternal grandmother was an American from California, named Lavinia (née Joyce).[4][5] The Lowther family are members of the British nobility, headed by the Earl of Lonsdale.[6] Aboah's maternal great-grandfather was Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther, the son of Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale. She is a grandniece of James Lowther, 7th Earl of Lonsdale.[4] Through her father, she is related to the Ghanaian politician William Kwasi Aboah. Aboah is the younger sister of fashion model and activist Adwoa Aboah and a second cousin of fashion model Matilda Lowther.[7][8]
Aboah was educated at Millfield, a boarding school in Somerset, and later obtained an art degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[9][10][3]
Career
[edit]Modelling
[edit]Aboah is signed with VIVA Model Management and DNA Models.[9] She had her first modelling job when she was six years old, modelling for the brand Jigsaw.[5] She has modelled in advertisement campaigns for Alexander McQueen and Miu Miu.[9] In 2010 Aboah and her sister were featured in an advertisement campaign for H&M.[11]
In 2017 she walked the runway for Coach New York's AW17 fashion show.[12] In September 2018, Aboah, alongside her sister, Adwoa, and her cousin, Alewya Demmisse, were photographed by Mario Sorrenti as the faces of MANGO's AW18 campaign TOGETHER.[13][14] She has been featured in Vogue, The Telegraph Magazine, Love,[15] and i-D and has modelled for Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, and Burberry.[16][17][18][19] She was photographed alongside Kate Moss for Love magazine's LOVE 18.[20]
In November 2018, Aboah was featured in ASAP Rocky's music video for the song "Sundress".[21]
In February 2019, she walked the runway for Simone Rocha's Fall 2019 fashion show.[10] In September 2019, Aboah was the face of Links of London's Brutalist campaign.[22]
Art
[edit]Pierre Lagrange, who was already acquainted with the Aboah family, was introduced to Aboah's artwork via social media. He commissioned her to create a canvas of work for H. Huntsman & Sons. Her finished work, titled The Joy in Dancing With My Sisters, was then created into a bespoke jacket design for the brand. She was commissioned to create a second piece for Huntsman's display window, which she titled All The Women And Me.[23]
Aboah completed an artist's residency in Ísafjörður, Iceland before starting another residency in Mexico.[24][22]
See also
[edit]- Black British nobility, the class that Aboah belongs to.
References
[edit]- ^ "Kesewa Aboah - Model". models.com.
- ^ "Kesewa Aboah - Births & Baptisms [1] - Genes Reunited".
- ^ a b Jansen, Charlotte (6 April 2023). "Kesewa Aboah On Modelling, Body Printing And The Freedom Of Making Mistakes". ELLE.
- ^ a b "Woman with great literary mind". Cumberland and Westmorland Herald. 11 January 2003. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ a b Calkin, Jessamy (6 September 2019). "Model, artist, muse: meet Kesewa Aboah, the youngest member of fashion's most fabulous family". telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ Cowell, Alan (16 July 2014). "For Sale, English Mountain and Title of Lord, $3 Million. (There's a Catch.)". New York Times.
- ^ Weinstock, Tish (27 August 2014). "best friends adwoa, alewya, jazzy, gala and kesewa invite team i-d for a night on the town!". vice.com.
- ^ Teller, Juergen (23 November 2017). "'... and none of us have changed.'". system-magazine.com.
- ^ a b c Muysers, Marie-Cybèle (March 2019). "My Fashion Life: Kesewa Aboah SS19". matchesfashion.com.
- ^ a b Krentcil, Faran (17 February 2019). "Simone Rocha Casts Anti-Instagram Influencers for Her Fall 2019 Runway Show". ELLE.
- ^ Bennett, Elizabeth (20 February 2017). "Meet The Model Of The Moment: Adwoa Aboah". Grazia.
- ^ Fearon, Faye (28 June 2017). "Naomie Harris & the Aboah sisters are the faces of Miu Miu". Dazed.
- ^ Gil, Natalie (11 September 2018). "Adwoa Aboah Enlists The Help Of Her Sister For Mango's New Campaign". refinery29.com.
- ^ "In bed with Miu Miu: Adwoa and Kesewa Aboah and Alewya Demmisse set up bed on the Champs Elysees E". thelovemagazine.co.uk. 11 July 2016.
- ^ Flynn, Paul (17 March 2019). "Sharna Osborne shoots Kesewa Aboah and Mariacarla Boscono and turns freeze-frames into stunning fashion photos". LOVE.
- ^ Bystander (9 June 2018). "Adwoa Aboah and Sonny Hall's Burberry Pre-Collection party". Tatler.
- ^ "Michael Wildes to Represent Well-Known Fashion Model Kesewa Aboah in Her U.S. Immigration Matters". Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. 20 March 2018.
- ^ "Kesewa Aboah". FashionModelDirectory.com.
- ^ "Buzz white for Telegraph Magazine with Kesewa Aboah". 10 September 2019.
- ^ Dalzell, Emma (26 July 2017). "Catch the behind-the-scenes antics of Kate Moss and Kesewa Aboah from LOVE 18". thelovemagazine.co.uk.
- ^ DeMarco, Nicole (21 November 2018). "watch a$ap rocky's vibrant new 'sundress' video directed by frank lebon". vice.com.
- ^ a b "Meet Kesewa Aboah, star of our new Brutalist campaign". linksoflondon.com.
- ^ "The Art of Bespoke with Kesewa Aboah". Huntsman. 2 October 2019.
- ^ Aboah, Kesewa (8 April 2019). "An adventurous, artistic guide to Iceland". Stylist.
External links
[edit]- Kesewa Aboah at IMDb
- Living people
- 1994 births
- 21st-century British women artists
- Black British artists
- Black British fashion people
- 21st-century Black British women
- English female models
- English people of Ghanaian descent
- Aboah family
- Lowther family
- School of Visual Arts alumni
- English people of American descent
- Models from Westminster
- People educated at Millfield
- 21st-century English women artists
- 21st-century English people