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" A queen does not wear clothes off the runways. "

Edward Enninful

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" 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. "

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" I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017. "

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" I was very honoured to be awarded an OBE in 2016 for my services to diversity in the fashion industry. "

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" 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. "

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" I think fashion can tell a story about celebrating difference, can talk about how different people are, how diverse people are - and for me, that's where fashion really succeeds, when it tackles things to do with the world we live in. "

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" I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there. "

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" When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up? "

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" Social media and technology are democratising and opening up fashion and the process of fashion for all - this has good and bad sides, but that comes with any change. "

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" The fashion industry needs to breed a whole different way of thinking. We need more diverse people working in all facets of the industry. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm just propelled by insecurity; that's what really leads me to want to do better. "

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" 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. "

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" In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do. "

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" Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands. "

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" I feel like when it comes to the models, certain models are now like commodities in certain ways. "

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" You could say slowly but surely, the world is changing in a good way - equality in all forms is more and more part of the global conversation, and people are celebrating diversity and individuality. "

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" The best photographers know how to light any color skin. "

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" My mother was a seamstress, so I always grew up with her making clothes. I knew how to construct outfits. I knew how to sketch. I knew how to customise. But I could never imagine it as a career. "

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" People like me thought America was the best place to be creative, to be free to create, to have the freedom to be who you are. "

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" I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor. "

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" I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish. "

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" 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. "

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" I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people. "

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" You never know where inspiration is going to come from. "

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" Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. "

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" Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly. "

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" 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. "

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