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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. "

Edward Enninful

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

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

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

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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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" You never know where inspiration is going to come from. "

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

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" I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor. "

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" Diversity is very important for me. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry's house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi. "

Edward Enninful

" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" 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? "

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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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