Kesewa Aboah

Kesewa Arbell Lavinia Aboah (born May 1994) is a British artist and model.

Kesewa Aboah
Born
Kesewa Arbell Lavinia Aboah

May 1994 (age 26)
London, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materSchool of Visual Arts
Parent(s)Camilla Lowther (mother)
RelativesAdwoa Aboah (sister)
Modelling information
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Hair colourBrown
Eye colourBrown
Agency

Early life and family

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).[2][3] The Lowther family are members of the British nobility, headed by the Earl of Lonsdale.[4] 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.[2] 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.[5][6]

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.[7][8]

Career

Modelling

Aboah is signed with VIVA Model Management and DNA Models.[7] She had her first modelling job when she was 6 years old, modelling for the brand Jigsaw.[3] She has modelled in advertisement campaigns for Alexander McQueen and Miu Miu.[7] In 2010 Aboah and her sister were featured in an advertisement campaign for H&M.[9]

In 2017 she walked the runway for Coach New York's AW17 fashion show.[10] 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.[11][12] She has been featured in Vogue, The Telegraph Magazine, Love,[13] and i-D and has modelled for Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, and Burberry.[14][15][16][17] She was photographed alongside Kate Moss for Love magazine's LOVE 18.[18]

In November 2018, Aboah was featured in ASAP Rocky's music video for the song "Sundress".[19]

In February 2019, she walked the runway for Simone Rocha's Fall 2019 fashion show.[8] In September 2019, Aboah was the face of Links of London's Brutalist campaign.[20]

Art

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 Hunstman's display window, which she titled All The Women And Me.[21]

Aboah completed an artist's residency in Ísafjörður, Iceland before starting another residency in Mexico.[22][20]

References
  1. "Kesewa Aboah - Model". models.com.
  2. "Woman with great literary mind". Cumberland and Westmorland Herald. 11 January 2003. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  3. Calkin, Jessamy (6 September 2019). "Model, artist, muse: meet Kesewa Aboah, the youngest member of fashion's most fabulous family". telegraph.co.uk.
  4. Cowell, Alan (16 July 2014). "For Sale, English Mountain and Title of Lord, $3 Million. (There's a Catch.)". New York Times.
  5. Weinstock, Tish (27 August 2014). "best friends adwoa, alewya, jazzy, gala and kesewa invite team i-d for a night on the town!". vice.com.
  6. Teller, Juergen (23 November 2017). "'... and none of us have changed.'". system-magazine.com.
  7. Muysers, Marie-Cybèle (March 2019). "My Fashion Life: Kesewa Aboah SS19". matchesfashion.com.
  8. Krentcil, Faran (17 February 2019). "Simone Rocha Casts Anti-Instagram Influencers for Her Fall 2019 Runway Show". ELLE.
  9. Bennett, Elizabeth (20 February 2017). "Meet The Model Of The Moment: Adwoa Aboah". Grazia.
  10. Fearon, Faye (28 June 2017). "Naomie Harris & the Aboah sisters are the faces of Miu Miu". Dazed.
  11. Gil, Natalie (11 September 2018). "Adwoa Aboah Enlists The Help Of Her Sister For Mango's New Campaign". refinery29.com.
  12. "In bed with Miu Miu: Adwoa and Kesewa Aboah and Alewya Demmisse set up bed on the Champs Elysees E". thelovemagazine.co.uk. 11 July 2016.
  13. Flynn, Paul (17 March 2019). "Sharna Osborne shoots Kesewa Aboah and Mariacarla Boscono and turns freeze-frames into stunning fashion photos". LOVE.
  14. Bystander (9 June 2018). "Adwoa Aboah and Sonny Hall's Burberry Pre-Collection party". Tatler.
  15. "Michael Wildes to Represent Well-Known Fashion Model Kesewa Aboah in Her U.S. Immigration Matters". Wildes & Weinberg, P.C.
  16. "Kesewa Aboah". FashionModelDirectory.com.
  17. "Buzz white for Telegraph Magazine with Kesewa Aboah". 10 September 2019.
  18. Dalzell, Emma (26 July 2017). "Catch the behind-the-scenes antics of Kate Moss and Kesewa Aboah from LOVE 18". thelovemagazine.co.uk.
  19. DeMarco, Nicole (21 November 2018). "watch a$ap rocky's vibrant new 'sundress' video directed by frank lebon". vice.com.
  20. "The Art of Bespoke with Kesewa Aboah". Huntsman. 2 October 2019.
  21. Aboah, Kesewa (8 April 2019). "An adventurous, artistic guide to Iceland". Stylist.
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