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" I am definitely allergic to wheat. Every time I eat it, I feel awful. "
Edward Enninful
Wheat
Allergic
Eat
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" When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban. "
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" It was a whole new attitude: no makeup, less is more... the '90s were fun! "
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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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" 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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World
Equality
" Diversity is very important for me. "
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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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" Kurt Cobain really made an impression on us. He just had that rebel attitude. You could tell he was super talented but didn't really care. "
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" With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much. "
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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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Happy
Family
" I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor. "
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Up
" The best photographers know how to light any color skin. "
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Skin
Color
Know
" 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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" 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
" I want 'Vogue' to feel like a shop that you're not scared to walk into, one that's quite welcoming. "
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Scared
Like
Feel
" 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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Important
Jeans
Perfect
" I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant. "
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I Can
You
Creativity
" I was very honoured to be awarded an OBE in 2016 for my services to diversity in the fashion industry. "
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Industry
Diversity
Fashion
" I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media. "
Edward Enninful
Social Media
Technology
Always
" 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
People
Father
Listen
" 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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World
You
Want
" 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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Music
Fashion
Remember
" 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
" 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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Ideas
Very
World
" 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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Shoot
Say
Rest
" 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. "
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" Most of the time, working as a stylist, you're at home, working on your own, researching. "
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Working
You
Your
" I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition. "
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See
" When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6. "
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Size
Sample
Nineties
" I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest. "
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Very
Think
" I take random inspiration from everywhere. "
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Inspiration
Take
Everywhere