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" Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands. "

Edward Enninful

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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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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

" I learned that fashion was about more than fancy images. That there was a business side as well. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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

" Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" The white T-shirt is like a blank canvas - eternally versatile. "

Edward Enninful

" 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

" I take random inspiration from everywhere. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" I was very honoured to be awarded an OBE in 2016 for my services to diversity in the fashion industry. "

Edward Enninful

" I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" Change always takes time. "

Edward Enninful