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

Edward Enninful

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" Change always takes time. "

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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. "

Edward Enninful

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

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

Edward Enninful

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

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

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

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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. "

Edward Enninful

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

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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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

" The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens. "

Edward Enninful

" My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" Social media is fine, depending on how you use it. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" Diversity is very important for me. "

Edward Enninful

" I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest. "

Edward Enninful

" I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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

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

Edward Enninful

" The funny thing is that the fashions from the '90s seem to sit so well with the fashions of 2016. Everything from then somehow skipped and came back. "

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