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" A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a negative, that's a positive. "
Positive
Negative
Whatever
" A queen does not wear clothes off the runways. "
Queen
Wear
Clothes
" Being an immigrant and living in England, I feel like I lived in two worlds. There was the world that, when I was at school with my friends, was very English, and then I'd go home to another country, with exotic foods and colours. I have a sense of colour pairings, and that came from my background, I think. "
Friends
World
Think
" By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen. "
Great
Together
People
" Change always takes time. "
Takes
Always
Change
" Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. "
Going
Family
Lawyer
" Diversity is very important for me. "
Important
Me
Diversity
" For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in. "
Something
About
Fashion
" Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave. "
Growing Up
Brave
Home
" I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most. "
Most
I Am
Black
" I am definitely allergic to wheat. Every time I eat it, I feel awful. "
Wheat
Allergic
Eat
" I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant. "
I Can
You
Creativity
" I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me. "
Me
Picture
Character
" I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy. "
Me
Happy
Family
" I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn't afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I'd get one from the market and customise it. "
Family
Creativity
Rich
" I didn't know anything about the fashion industry until I met the stylist Simon Foxton on a Tube. I was 16, on my way to Kingsway College, and then my whole world opened up. Before that, like in every African family, you are meant to be a lawyer. "
Lawyer
College
Family
" I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community. "
Black
My Life
Life
" I don't think everything has to be new all the time. You don't have to have the latest designer all the time to look good. Just have things you're comfortable with, have key pieces that you can sort of reinvent over and over again, and always keep things that you really love for a while. "
Time
Think
Love
" I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest. "
Way
Very
Think
" I feel like when it comes to the models, certain models are now like commodities in certain ways. "
Feel
I Feel
I Feel Like
" I felt like I grew up with Bowie. I never dressed like him, even though I did love the music, but consistently throughout my career he has been a go-to reference point: The suit from 'Young Americans,' or the gold Missoni-type looks of Ziggy Stardust. 'The Berlin Years' still influences me. "
Young
Music
Career
" If you put one model in a show or in an ad campaign, that doesn't solve the problem. We need teachers in universities. We need internships. We need people of different ethnic backgrounds in all parts of the industry. That really is the solution: you have to change it from the inside. "
Change
People
Problem
" I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.' "
Shoot
Say
Rest
" I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish. "
Rice
Dish
Chicken
" I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London. "
West
School
Me
" I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor. "
British
Vogue
Up
" I learned that fashion was about more than fancy images. That there was a business side as well. "
Fashion
Business
Well
" I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people. "
People
Play
Changing
" I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself. "
Simplicity
Love
You
" I'm just propelled by insecurity; that's what really leads me to want to do better. "
Insecurity
Want
Me
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