2019-08-01 Essence

“As a Black woman

in Sweden, everything

I do is political.”

—SELAM FESSAHAYE

Clockwise from

left: Winning

looks from Selam

Fessahaye,

Rich Mnisi and

Christopher John

Rogers.

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