Londoner’s Diary: Fashion’s more diverse than it was — but I still have to change to fit in

Osman Yousefzada

(Picture: Dave Benett)

DESIGNER and artist Osman Yousefzada says despite the progress the fashion industry has made on diversity, “I still code-switch” — a term for using a different way of speaking in different places.

Yousefzada, who began his career in 2008 and has had multiple shows at London Fashion Week, grew up in an impoverished area of Birmingham. His parents were both illiterate.