The Pleasure Lists Q&A: Otegha Uwagba

We’re back with another installment of The Pleasure Lists: Pleasures, Curated.

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Otegha Uwagba is a culture journalist and the bestselling author of three books: We Need To Talk About Money; Whites: On Race And Other Falsehoods, and Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women. She’s profiled notable figures including Fran Lebowitz, Naomi Campbell and Issa Rae, and written for publications including the Guardian, Vogue, The Gentlewoman, HTSI, New York Magazine, the Sunday Times, and the New Statesman. She has a culture column at Grazia and publishes Add To Wishlist, a monthly culture and style Substack with over 16,000 subscribers. She studied PPE at Oxford and grew up in south London, where she still resides.

Location: London

Social: @oteghauwagba on Instagram (frequently) and Twitter (sporadically), Substack @addtowishlist (monthly).

Being in bed
I conduct a large proportion of my daily activities from my bed - I work from bed, I watch TV in bed, I eat meals in bed... It’s the most comfortable piece of furniture I own (I spent months researching which mattress would give me ‘hotel-level comfort’), so I figure why not spend as much time in it as humanly possible?

Expensive shoes
I love fashion in general, but a nice pair of shoes are the thing that really make me go weak at the knees (and slap down my credit card). When I was renovating my flat a few years ago, I had a custom built ‘shoe-drobe’ installed in my bedroom to house my favourite pairs. Sometimes I like to open it and just stare at them.

The second morning of a beach holiday
You’ve arrived and unpacked all your stuff, you’ve gotten your bearings, maybe caught up on sleep after a long travel day, and you’ve still got more holiday in front of you than behind you - the sweet spot of any holiday. It really doesn’t get better than this.