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Next to sort of immigrants, so i loved the energy. i loved the fact that, oh, my god, i really belonged. i started feeling like i belonged in england when we hit ladbroke grove. but i — there was — i remember the front line — ladbroke grove itself was always the front line and the police were there every day, so you had to be so careful — you know, we were stopped so many times, my brothers and i. it's remarkable how much the course of history, whether it's global or personal, can swing on chance meetings and for you, it was when you were on the london underground, when a bloke called ...

I remember getting home and poor mum. "mum, i want to do this!" she wasn't having it. she's like, "the fashion industry is full of weird "people" — i didn't know what she meant by "weird" at the time — but as you do when you're young, i sort of forced her, and eventually she called simon... so, she called him, not you? well, she did. she wanted to vet him and make sure that he was... basically! wow. african mother. and sort of, yes, then i started sort of shooting with simon and nick knight as a model, and then i became a model with an agency while i was at college and really, that was my ...

From when she was a baby — and she is a star — but, you know, they really are who they are — authentic. you also were defining your own sexuality and being open about it. you had a girlfriend who was another model and then, simon foxton took you to more gay bars, like heaven. you describe this in the book — very beautifully, if i may say — where you talk about how, "just as i had found myself in fashion, which is what i "wanted to do in the world, "now i was discovering more intimate terrain. "i felt free and scared and excited." but how did coming from a ghanaian family complicate c...

British Vogue's editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful OBE, discusses his memoir, A Visible Man. Read more on Grazia.

Edward Enninful grew up in Ghana, assisting his mother in her dressmaking shop. "For me, fashion was always such an inclusive, beautiful thing," he says. His memoir is A Visible Man.