Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
What is your greatest fear?
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What scares you about getting older?
Time & hindsight
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m not fond of snakes.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
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View profile →Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
Overwhelming, discombobulating, irrational and unreasonable.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
As not being a total bollix.
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