Edward Enninful

A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.

— Edward Enninful

Change always takes time.

— Edward Enninful

I take random inspiration from everywhere.

— Edward Enninful

Diversity is very important for me.

— Edward Enninful

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

— 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

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

— Edward Enninful

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

Kurt Cobain really made an impression on us. He just had that rebel attitude. You could tell he was super talented but…

— Edward Enninful

When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which…

— Edward Enninful

Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died…

— Edward Enninful

People like me thought America was the best place to be creative, to be free to create, to have the freedom to…

— 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…

— Edward Enninful

I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm…

— Edward Enninful

The funny thing is that the fashions from the '90s seem to sit so well with the fashions of 2016. Everything from…

— Edward Enninful

Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

— Edward Enninful

I didn't know anything about the fashion industry until I met the stylist Simon Foxton on a Tube. I was 16, on…

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

— 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 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

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

If you put one model in a show or in an ad campaign, that doesn't solve the problem. We need teachers in…

— Edward Enninful

My memories of London Fashion Week are of starting out and not getting many tickets for fashion shows, but wanting to see…

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

I feel like when it comes to the models, certain models are now like commodities in certain ways.

— Edward Enninful

Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

The white T-shirt is like a blank canvas - eternally versatile.

— Edward Enninful

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

— 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

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful

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

— Edward Enninful