Intisar captures the quiet confidence of everyday style
The London running coach and model photographs herself in Stine Goya, layering sportswear with tailored ease. Her new self portrait series celebrates the freedom to move between identities.
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Intisar moves through the world with the ease of someone who knows exactly who she is. As a running coach, model and healthcare professional based in London, she carries that confidence into everything she wears, composing outfits from Stine Goya pieces that refuse to sit neatly in a single category. Her relationship with the Danish brand began with her debut walk in 2023, and now she photographs herself in her own environments, letting the everyday become the stage.
The images unfold quietly, without artifice. A black blazer and matching trousers, oversized and assured, paired with patent leather shoes that catch the light. A burgundy workwear jacket with a pink ribbed collar, its sturdy canvas giving way to vulnerable softness. Black tailoring again, this time draped across her frame with the ease of someone who understands silhouette as a form of expression. Each photograph reveals layers of identity: the athlete in the precision of the cut, the fashion lover in the unexpected colour, the heritage woven through her choice to cover her head with the ease of someone for whom this is simply part of who she is.
Intisar became the first Somali British woman to complete all six Abbott World Marathon Majors, a fact that informs everything about how she dresses. She chooses pieces that move with her, that don’t require apology or explanation. Oversized tailoring meets streetwear. Sportswear speaks to elegance. Cultural identity sits comfortably alongside contemporary style. These are not contradictions for her; they are simply the full range of a person who refuses to be diminished by a single narrative.
Through this ongoing series, Stine Goya invites its community to photograph and style themselves in their own spaces. In Intisar’s case, that invitation has yielded something quietly radical: the documentation of a woman who celebrates identity, confidence and the freedom to express every version of who she is, all within the same frame.
Imagery courtesy of Stine Goya (@stinegoyastudio).
