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Lily Cole

Lily Cole's photoGETTY

Nationality:
British
Birthday:
May 19, 1988
Born in:
Torquay, England
Lives now:
London, England
Agencies:
IMG, Marilyn Agency
Known for:
My hair
Status:
Established, good girl
Friends with:
Caroline Winberg, Erin O'Connor, Gemma Ward, Hilary Rhoda, Jade Parfitt, Rosie Huntington, Tasha Tilberg
Model turned…
Actress (Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, 2007; St. Trinians, 2007)

Career

French Playboy, 2008

May 19, 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
Dec 7, 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
May 4, 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
Jul 4, 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
Oct 7, 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
Feb 12, 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
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

Quoted

“Modelling is great, but studies came first.”

FemaleFirst.co.uk (August 17, 2007)

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