Quotes

It has to be something people prioritize - it should be the number-one priority: representing all types of beauty, all types of shapes and sizes.

I think if you don't like being in your skin, it doesn't matter how many times people say you're beautiful, how many jobs you get, or whatever it is - I just didn't want to be Adwoa.

Without social media, I wouldn't have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I'd be on it if it wasn't part of my job.

Mental health isn't all of me, but it's a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being.

In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.

How can our industry better represent the reality of our larger community and provide our next generation a proper example of what they see around them every single day? This representation should also look beyond race and include those of all body types, religion, sexuality, and gender identification.

When you want someone to notice you, there's one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?

No one had ever educated me on mental health. I really didn't understand why I would be feeling high on life, and everything was brilliant, and then suddenly I would be crashing into a deep hole.

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

I don't mean to sound cocky, but I just wear what I like and don't try to focus too much on trends.

I would like to give acting a go. I studied it for a long time; I just want to make sure when I do it I am able to put in as much effort as I do to modeling.

I never would have dreamt in a million years that I would have young girls coming up to me at Glastonbury or on the streets of L.A., New York, London, and telling me how much GurlsTalk or seeing my picture in a magazine means to them, as a woman of colour.

What I would say to anyone who wants to be a model is, have something else. This shouldn't be your be-all and end-all in life: there are so many other amazing things to be done in the world. I also think that the industry really celebrates a woman who does something else. So keep at it, but always have something else.

I had a hard time in high school.

When you talk, you realize that the pains and worries you feel are universal; you no longer feel alone in your sadness. You relate and find comfort in the fact that there are other women going through the same things as you are.

I used to get scouted outside of Topshop and stuff, and I was brought up in the fashion industry and did a few shoots when I was young, which was always fun to get dressed up.

I've got a lot of jewellery that I love - whether it costs a pound or whatever, it's all precious to me.

Diversity can't be a fashionable thing: it should be here to stay.

The bit that I've always loved about modeling is show season: the hype, the chaos, the calm just before you walk out. It's your moment - especially when there's no one before you.

I always think, what I would have thought of something like Gurls Talk would have come into my school? Or how would I have felt if I'd heard there was this one-day festival happening in London? I think I'd have definitely gone, I started Gurls Talk because it was everything that I needed at school.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

Women and girls inspire me. They drive me.

'Vogue' should be about giving a voice to all different cultures.

School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.