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

Edward Enninful

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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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" 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. "

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

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" Diversity is very important for me. "

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

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" I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition. "

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" The fashion industry needs to breed a whole different way of thinking. We need more diverse people working in all facets of the industry. "

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

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

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" I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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