It’s a big week for our beloved The Run-Through co-host Chioma! Her first cover as British Vogue’s head of editorial content is out, and it stars her “dream girl,” FKA Twigs—looking surprisingly stripped-back. “This is the beginning of a new era for me,” Twigs tells Chioma over Zoom after her cover shoot. “I know I can take a lot, fashion-wise. I can take a lot of prints, I can take a lot of color, a lot of makeup, a lot of hair. But I feel like I don’t need that so much anymore.”
Twigs goes on to describe her new state of being as “eusexua,” a word she made up to describe the feeling you get when you lose yourself to something you enjoy doing, whether it’s dancing or a passion project. And Twigs teaches Chioma a few other words from her personal dictionary (or, as Chioma calls them, “twig-isms”), including “cheback” (the rolls on the back of a bald man’s head) and “quas” (referring to both the oil residue left around the edges of the tub after a bath, and the saliva or lipgloss around the edges of a person’s mouth).
The two also talk about Twigs’s forthcoming album, inspired by her nightclub experiences in Prague while filming her first movie, The Crow, a Rupert Sanders film slated for release in June. (Twigs shares snippets of lyrics from a track titled “Room of Fools,” and gives Chioma a lesson on “mosh pit etiquette.”)
Earlier in the episode, Chioma and Chloe chat with British Vogue’s features director, Giles Hattersley, about the Kate Middleton conspiracy theories roiling the internet and the TikTok ban in the US. This prompts the trio to reveal what’s in their TikTok algorithms: Giles and Chloe both get animal videos, while Chioma’s For You Page is mainly British TV show commentary from the 2000s. And, in other UK news, Chioma talks about what it was like being a cover star herself for The Times magazine. Let the Chioman empire begin!