One, two, three, Legacy!
One more, one more.
[laughs]
Let's go, let's go, let's go...
You guys see it?
Good morning, Vogue. This is Adesuwa.
Welcome to my home in Accra, Ghana.
So, on a typical day,
I usually wake up around six o'clock before the sun gets too hot.
I like to meditate out here.
I start my days by preparing... by just clearing my palette,
like, clearing my body.
So, basically you just become like a Jedi, you know?
Like, it doesn't matter how much chaos is around you,
you're focused, you have laser vision.
I took a break from modelling.
I had decided that enough was enough.
When you're the ‘It’ model,
you're working 10 times more than your predecessors
because there's that much more demand for things to buy.
It came a point when I needed to take a break
and somehow I ended up in Ghana
and then, just every time I get a chance to escape,
I run back here.
[laughs]
It's bliss.
Come on!
So, right now I'm going to make some breakfast:
some scrambled eggs and some coffee.
My dad taught me how to cook actually.
But I can only cook, like, Thai and Nigerian food.
If you ask me to make spaghetti, I'll probably burn your house.
OK, I actually did burn these ones.
We're about to have breakfast
and then get ready and go out into the city.
I don't have any forks.
So, life in Ghana is quite hot,
so I haven't really got a lot of clothes.
I've got this FREE THE YOUTH x Daily Paper collaboration,
two streetwear brands,
one's from Amsterdam and one's from Ghana.
This one is a bootleg.
Thought it was tight, all the eyeballs.
Dungaroos! It's really fun to wear these.
I'm probably going to go with this because it looks hot today.
Now get out of my room! Let me get ready. Go, go.
OK.
Come on.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
To the art market!
OK guys.
Independence Square.
It stands for freedom and justice.
OK, so we are on our way to the first location of the day,
which is Arts Centre.
This place is one of my favourites
because you get to find a lot of old antiques
from all over Africa.
You can find anything
and they can make you anything you want.
I chose the word "Legacy" to be the name of my brand
because it's about the very statement of
"forward ever backwards never".
It's actually about me providing a space
where everybody comes together in support.
One of our biggest problems is communication.
There's one thing that we have and this is the best: it is art.
It doesn't matter where you're from or your language,
when you see art it speaks to the heart.
What's up?
How are you doing?
Good, good.
[laughs]
You literally find the most amazing art here.
[laughs]
Hello! How are you?
They’re really, really big into the arts in Ghana.
They have a festival called Chale Wote.
That's the street festival.
It's like African, like, hippie kind of vibes.
It's really, really cool.
Welcome to the Arts Centre. Meet my guys!
My guys, say: "What's up?"
Show them, yeah!
They make everything in here. Look at all the bead work.
There's different kinds of woodwork,
it's mad.
What's that instrument I bought?
- Kalimba. - Yeah, kalimba. Yeah, yeah.
We met because we couldn't agree on a price for three days.
Yeah, for three days.
It wasn't easy.
Thank you.
- Bye bye! - Any time, girl.
I'm taking you guys to one of my favourite places in Accra.
It's called Osikan Beach.
[laughs]
We're going to go check out my art installation.
I'm making a nine-feet-tall woman on a mountain.
So, I have Queen Idia,
right?
Nine feet tall, right?
And then her body is just this basket
and it's made by an artisan.
So, someone made a basket, someone got the pole,
someone made the head, someone got the flowers,
carried it up a mountain.
Queen Idia was amazing!
She was one of the first queens to go to war with her son.
In a space where women aren't considered equal as men,
it's really, really like a big deal
who she was.
Check it out.
Welcome to my crib, welcome to my crib!
Osikan "Rock" Beach.
Welcome to Osikan beach, my favourite place in Accra.
You guys see it?
Where's my baby!
She's right over there.
So, her head is Queen Idia.
She's about nine feet tall
and we're going to cover her whole body with flowers
that are found around town.
And just to have her as a symbol of regeneration.
So, these guys were born and raised here
and they helped me build her and carry it up there.
We carried everything by hand.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Come on.
Be careful, though.
My lady!
I chose this spot because
it felt right to me.
It felt right for the queen to be sitting here.
It's this hidden little, like, entrance into this beach,
into this world.
It's really peaceful here.
OK, come with me as we try some new foods.
A lot of restaurants really mix art with the food,
so the spaces are really, really cool.
Here you see, like, a lot of afrofuturistic art
surrounding us.
It feels like, I don't know, like you're in a museum.
Thank you!
I hadn't cooked in three years until Covid hit.
Then I had the time to start making my own food,
my own simple eggs.
Really good.
It's so many flavours
that your tongue has yet to experience, you know.
A lot of the foods are, like, traditionally old, old, like
recipes from way back when, you know.
Just got my certificate of incorporation.
See that?
Legacy Pan-Africa Ltd.
We're official.
Wow, wow, wow.
So tight.
[laughs]
Today you guys got to check out a mini glimpse of life
off modelling for me in Ghana.
I think that there's so much more to discover
and to learn about Ghana and Ghanaians
and Africa as a whole.
I'm just excited for all of that.
And, yeah, I can't wait for you guys to see
all the wonderful work we've been doing here.
Thank you so much for spending the day with me.
I hope you guys do come by.
I do hope you guys...
Yeah, I hope you guys come and check out Ghana.
It's really sick.
Peace.
Hello VogueThis is Adesuwa.
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