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

Edward Enninful

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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. "

Edward Enninful

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

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. "

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" I am definitely allergic to wheat. Every time I eat it, I feel awful. "

Edward Enninful

" By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen. "

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

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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

" I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant. "

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" Kurt Cobain really made an impression on us. He just had that rebel attitude. You could tell he was super talented but didn't really care. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up? "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

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 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. "

Edward Enninful

" I'm so fascinated by the influence of social media on fashion. I've seen so many artists on Instagram, up and comers you would have never known otherwise. "

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

" Change always takes time. "

Edward Enninful