Edward Enninful

Diversity is very important for me.

— Edward Enninful

I take random inspiration from everywhere.

— Edward Enninful

A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.

— Edward Enninful

Change always takes time.

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.

— Edward Enninful

I want 'Vogue' to feel like a shop that you're not scared to walk into, one that's quite welcoming.

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there.

— Edward Enninful

My mother and father just taught me the basics: to be really kind, to really listen to people. I have never been…

— Edward Enninful

I realise I am stepping into the shoes of a hugely respected editor in the shape of Alexandra Shulman, someone who has…

— Edward Enninful

Social media and technology are democratising and opening up fashion and the process of fashion for all - this has good and…

— Edward Enninful

A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a…

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing…

— 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…

— Edward Enninful

I felt like I grew up with Bowie. I never dressed like him, even though I did love the music, but consistently…

— 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…

— Edward Enninful

I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into…

— Edward Enninful

I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of…

— Edward Enninful

I don't think everything has to be new all the time. You don't have to have the latest designer all the time…

— Edward Enninful

There is nothing more classic in the realm of casual than jeans and a white tee - a look that is inherently…

— Edward Enninful

I think fashion can tell a story about celebrating difference, can talk about how different people are, how diverse people are -…

— Edward Enninful

Being an immigrant and living in England, I feel like I lived in two worlds. There was the world that, when I…

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

— Edward Enninful

I grew up in west London, but my dad wouldn't let me go to school there, so I went in south London.

— Edward Enninful

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

— Edward Enninful

I am definitely allergic to wheat. Every time I eat it, I feel awful.

— Edward Enninful

When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6.

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.

— Edward Enninful

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

— Edward Enninful

'British Vogue' is a great magazine with a legacy of creativity and innovation.

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful