Edward Enninful

The funny thing is that the fashions from the '90s seem to sit so well with the fashions of 2016. Everything from then somehow skipped and came back. ”

A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a negative, that's a positive. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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