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

Edward Enninful

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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 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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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I've learned to put a big value on having a life outside of fashion, and I think that's what's saved me, because the fashion industry can suck you in. "

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

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

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" I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young. "

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" The best photographers know how to light any color skin. "

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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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" 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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