Edward Enninful Quotes

I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there.
I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.
I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media.
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.
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.
In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.
It was a whole new attitude: no makeup, less is more... the '90s were fun!
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.
Most of the time, working as a stylist, you're at home, working on your own, researching.
Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands.
My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.
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.
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.
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.
Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.
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.
People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.
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.
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.
Social media is fine, depending on how you use it.
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