was staring at me and he was i remember bald, wearing denim and, you know, i was quite sheltered. i6. yeah, and at baker street, he got off and gave me his card and he said, my name is simon foxton. i m a stylist i didn t know what a stylist was but, call me. i d love to use you in a shoot. 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 entry into fashion. and a few weeks later, you were doing a shoot
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 simon handed you a card. laughs. and i remember getting on the train and sort of heading to college and simon was staring at me and he was i remember bald, wearing denim and, you know, i was quite sheltered. i6. yeah, and at baker street, he got off and gave me his card and he said, my name is simon foxton. i m a stylist. i d love to use you in a shoot. i remember getting home and poor mum. she wasn t having it. she s like, the fashion industry is full of weird people. 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
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 simon handed you a card. laughs. and i remember getting on the train and sort of heading to college and simon was staring at me and he was i remember bald, wearing denim and, you know, i was quite sheltered. 16. yeah, and at baker street, he got off and gave me his card and he said, my name is simon foxton. i m a stylist i didn t know what a stylist was but, call me. i d love to use you in a sh