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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. "

Edward Enninful

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" When you leave your house in the morning, however you dress is the way you want the world to see you. "

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. "

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" I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people. "

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

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

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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. "

Edward Enninful

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

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. "

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" I take random inspiration from everywhere. "

Edward Enninful

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

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

" 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. "

Edward Enninful

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

Edward Enninful

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

Edward Enninful

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

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 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

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

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

" 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

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

Edward Enninful

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

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

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

Edward Enninful