Louisa

Winter 2025

SWEET AS HONEY AND ENTIRELY HER OWN: MISS OCTOBER LOUISA AMA.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JO PESCH

At 26, Louisa embodies a rare combination of mountain-forged resilience and worldly elegance. Born in Ghana, she moved to Austria at four when her mother remarried, settling in Eben im Pongau—a village where she and her family were often the first Black people whom locals had ever encountered. Rather than shrinking from the attention, this experience s...