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

Edward Enninful

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" When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry's house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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 want 'Vogue' to feel like a shop that you're not scared to walk into, one that's quite welcoming. "

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

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

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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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