Edward Enninful Quotes

British - Designer | 1972 -

The fashion industry needs to breed a whole different way of thinking. We need more diverse people working in all facets of the industry.

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

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I learned that fashion was about more than fancy images. That there was a business side as well.

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

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I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish.

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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 come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.

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I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition.

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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 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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