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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. "
Edward Enninful
Going
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Lawyer
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" There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture. "
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" The best photographers know how to light any color skin. "
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" I've learned to put a big value on having a life outside of fashion, and I think that's what's saved me, because the fashion industry can suck you in. "
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" People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young. "
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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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" Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly. "
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Never Forget
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" I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box. "
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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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" My mother and father just taught me the basics: to be really kind, to really listen to people. I have never been one to put on airs and graces. "
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" My memories of London Fashion Week are of starting out and not getting many tickets for fashion shows, but wanting to see them so much that I'd sneak in with my friends, people like Pat McGrath and Craig McDean. "
Edward Enninful
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People
Memories
" 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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Rice
Dish
Chicken
" Change always takes time. "
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Takes
Always
Change
" 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. "
Edward Enninful
Lawyer
College
Family
" 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. "
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Friends
World
Think
" I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media. "
Edward Enninful
Social Media
Technology
Always
" 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. "
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Positive
Negative
Whatever
" You never know where inspiration is going to come from. "
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Going
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" When I was really young, I had an afro and wore pressed jeans and argyle sweaters. In my teens, I moved on to ripped Levi's jeans, white T-shirts, and cowboy boots. "
Edward Enninful
Young
Levi
Boots
" The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens. "
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You
Magic
Better
" I take random inspiration from everywhere. "
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Inspiration
Take
Everywhere
" I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most. "
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Most
I Am
Black
" When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6. "
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Sample
Nineties
" My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender. "
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Body
Women
" Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos. "
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Name
Scared
Someone
" With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much. "
Edward Enninful
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Love
Why
" 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. "
Edward Enninful
Me
Picture
Character
" 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. "
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Family
Creativity
Rich
" I realise I am stepping into the shoes of a hugely respected editor in the shape of Alexandra Shulman, someone who has chosen to leave at the top of their game with a legacy of 25 years of success. "
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Legacy
Top
Success
" 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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Me
Happy
Family
" 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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