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Lily Cole Biography

Lily Luahana Cole (born 27 December 1987) is an English model, actress and entrepreneur. Cole pursued a modelling career as a teenager and was listed in 2009 by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. She was booked for her first British Vogue cover at age 16, named "Model of the Year" at the 2004 British Fashion Awards, and worked with many well-known brands, including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier and Moschino. Her advertising campaigns have included Longchamp, Anna Sui, Rimmel and Cacharel.

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Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.

Against, Black, Colour, Pale Skin, Ravens, Wig

I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

Grounding, Kept, Perspective, School

It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

Believe, Biggest, Creativity, Fashion

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

Beauty, Clothes, Creativity, Ideas, Inherent, Waste

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

Coincidence, Life, Reason, Strange, Things

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.

Children, Couple, Enough, Hurt, Point

I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.

Achieve, Modeling, Platform, Platforms, Want

People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am.

Bother, Comfortable, Issues, Make, People, Who I Am

I love beautiful things; I like having nice clothes, and I can appreciate why other people do - but I've also started to learn more about the impact of what we buy: how things are made, how much you buy and the quality of everything.

Beautiful, Everything, Having, Impact, Love Is, Nice

Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

Based, Cohesion, Economy, Giving, Money, Triggers

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

Dragons, Eddie, Fair, Fairy Tale, Film, Murphy

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

Media, Think, Thinking, Time, Way

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

Believer, Businesses, Should, Social, Used

I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.

Issues, Mum, Personality, Problem, Thought

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

Ideas, Modeling, People, Photographer, Simple, University

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

Idea, Ideas, Like, Love, Paint, Sculpture

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

Legs, Purple, Tights, Wear

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

Appreciate, Far Away, Importance, Rainforest, Survival

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

Acting, Heart, Performing, Years

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

Clothes, Kind, Like, Role Playing, Roles

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