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" Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave. "

Edward Enninful

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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. "

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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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" 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.' "

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" The white T-shirt is like a blank canvas - eternally versatile. "

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" 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. "

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" I used to wear a lot of Helmut Lang. Painted jeans. Cropped crombies with t-shirts. A lot of V-necks. The perfect V-neck was very important. "

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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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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 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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" When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6. "

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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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" I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition. "

Edward Enninful

" I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London. "

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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. "

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" When you leave your house in the morning, however you dress is the way you want the world to see you. "

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" I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most. "

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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. "

Edward Enninful

" There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" It was a whole new attitude: no makeup, less is more... the '90s were fun! "

Edward Enninful

" Most of the time, working as a stylist, you're at home, working on your own, researching. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

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" With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much. "

Edward Enninful

" 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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" I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant. "

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