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" I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people. "

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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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" 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. "

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

Edward Enninful

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Diversity is very important for me. "

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

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

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

" I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" There is nothing more classic in the realm of casual than jeans and a white tee - a look that is inherently Americana and reminiscent of the American Dream - an optimistic dream of opportunity, individuality, freedom, and the embodiment of one living their truth. "

" I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box. "

" I take random inspiration from everywhere. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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