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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. "

Edward Enninful

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender. "

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" I think fashion can tell a story about celebrating difference, can talk about how different people are, how diverse people are - and for me, that's where fashion really succeeds, when it tackles things to do with the world we live in. "

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" I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn't afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I'd get one from the market and customise it. "

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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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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.' "

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. "

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

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

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" I take random inspiration from everywhere. "

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

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

" 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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