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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.”
“In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.”
“I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself.”
“Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.”
“I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish.”
“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.”
“There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.”
“I used to wear a lot of Helmut Lang. Painted jeans. Cropped crombies with t-shirts. A lot of V-necks. The perfect V-neck was very important.”
“I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've always been very fascinated by technology - the Internet, social media.”
“I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.”
“When you leave your house in the morning, however you dress is the way you want the world to see you.”
“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.”
“I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people.”
“I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn't afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I'd get one from the market and customise it.”
“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.”
“You never know where inspiration is going to come from.”
“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.”