Edward Enninful Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6.
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I am definitely allergic to wheat. Every time I eat it, I feel awful.
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Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.
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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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Most of the time, working as a stylist, you're at home, working on your own, researching.
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In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.
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A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.
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I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.
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People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.
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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.
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I felt like I grew up with Bowie. I never dressed like him, even though I did love the music, but consistently throughout my career he has been a go-to reference point: The suit from 'Young Americans,' or the gold Missoni-type looks of Ziggy Stardust. 'The Berlin Years' still influences me.
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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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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 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.
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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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When I was really young, I had an afro and wore pressed jeans and argyle sweaters. In my teens, I moved on to ripped Levi's jeans, white T-shirts, and cowboy boots.
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Diversity is very important for me.
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Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.
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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.
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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.'