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Lily Cole
- Nationality
- British
- Birth Date
- May 19, 1988
- Status
- Cover girl, Established
- Known for
- Hair
- Agencies
- IMG, Marilyn, d'management
- Dated
- Jude Law
- Friends
- Gemma Ward, Caroline Winberg, Hilary Rhoda, Erin O'Connor, Jade Parfitt, Tasha Tilberg, Rosie Huntington, Yasmin Warsame, Georgia May Jagger
- Model Turned
- Actress (Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, 2007; St. Trinians, 2007)
Quoted
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“I don‘t want to completely sever ties with the fashion industry. I love some of the people I‘ve met and I respect them and I‘m still interested in fashion itself. If I‘m lucky, I‘ll continue making films, but still kind of keep my finger in that world. ”
—Wmagazine.com -
“Modelling is great, but studies came first.”
—FemaleFirst.co.uk
Lily Cole's Career Highlights
- 19 MAY, 1988
- Born in Torquay, England
- 2002
- Discovered by model scout while walking through Covent Garden in London
- 2003
- Steven Meisel shoots her for an editorial in Italian Vogue
- SEP 2003
- Debuts at spring Fashion Week opening for Anna Sui in New York
- 2004
- Appears in Prada ad campaign
- NOV 2004
- Named Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards
- 2005
- Appears in Moschino print ads
- JUL 2005
- Appears on the cover of British Vogue
- SEP 2005
- Profiled by World Fashion TV; talks about splitting her time between school and the modeling industry Video»
- DEC 2005
- Makes the Vogue Best-Dressed List
- 7 DEC, 2005
- Named one of New York’s Movers and Shakers in Time Out, which also calls her the “face of the future”
- 2006
- Appears in print ads for Max Studio
- 4 MAY, 2006
- Co-hosts the after-dinner dance for the Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Lily Donaldson and Gemma Ward
- JUL 2006
- Ends spokesmodel gig for De Beers due to eviction of Kalahari bushmen to free up land for diamond mining
- JUL 2006
- Opens the fall Jean Paul Gaultier couture show and closes the fall Christian Lacroix couture show in Paris
- 4 JUL, 2006
- Hosts party with fellow model Agyness Deyn at the Hotel Marais to celebrate the opening of Mulberry’s Paris store
- AUG 2006
- Accepted by Cambridge University for Social and Political Sciences
- OCT 2006
- Awarded the Mikdadi Prize for Politics by Latymer Upper School
- 7 OCT, 2006
- Stars in Jean Paul Gaultier’s 30th-anniversary show in Paris; Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington appears on the runway inside of a cage with a velvet curtain draped over it, and seconds later Cole appears holding a cat
- 2007
- Speaks out for WaterAid’s End Water Poverty campaign Video»
- FEB 2007
- Opens and closes Christian Lacroix fall show
- 12 FEB, 2007
- Announces plans to star in a modern version of Alice in Wonderland in the film Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, directed by Marilyn Manson
- MAR 2007
- Signs a plaster cast of her torso for an eBay auction to raise money for charity organization Comic Relief
- APR 2007
- Makes the Sunday Times Rich List as the 83rd richest young person in Britain with an estimated net worth of 6 million pounds
- MAY 2007
- Names Christy Turlington as her all-time favorite model in Vogue
- DEC 2007
- Plays Poly, a mischievous pupil, in the film St. Trinnian’s
- OCT 2007
- Opens the spring Akris show in Paris
- DEC 2007
- Appears in British Vogue editorial
- JAN 2008
- Appears in British Vogue editorial, photographed by Arthur Elgort
- JUL 2008
- Dates Jude Law Story»
- 2008
- Becomes one of the faces of Tiffanys & Co. alongside Hye Park and Shalom Harlow
- SEP 2008
- Appears in i-D editorial, photographed by Pierre Bailey
- OCT 2008
- Featured on the cover of French Playboy, photographed by Xevi Muntané
- MAR 2009
- Appears in editorials for W and i-D
- 2009
- Paolo Roversi photographs Cole for the fall issue of Pop
- OCT 2009
- Featured on the cover of British Harper's Bazaaar, photographed by Guy Aroch
- NOV 2009
- Featured on the cover of Dazed & Confused, photographed by Martin Hoogland Ivanow
- 22 DEC, 2009
- Wmagazine.com features Cole as This Week's Model Story»
- JAN 2010
- Featured on the cover of Canadian Elle, photographed by Rankin
- MAR 2010
- Opens the fall Hermès show in Paris
- MAR 2010
- Appears in Italian Marie Claire editorial, photographed by Francois Rotger
- 2010
- Featured on the cover of Zoo Magazine, photographed by Philip Gay
- MAY 2010
- Appears in French Elle editorial, photographed by Kayt Jones
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