Lily Cole
I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.
As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
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.
I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.
I think in some ways people kind of hate it, but most models recognize that it's a pretty easy job to make a lot of money at in a relatively short time, and you get to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. There are extreme highs and extreme lows. I think if it were as clear-cut as "models hate it," then they wouldn't do it. I really enjoyed a lot of the actual aspects of it, but not enough to make it my primary job. It can be quite empty, which is why I pursued other things.Collection: Hate
I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid. I think you see that nowadays, in this postmodern context, there's much more use of different mediums in contemporary art. For me, if you're a creative person, you can choose to make a painting, you can choose to make a film.Collection: Art
I think subjectivity plays into everything. It's unavoidable; you couldn't avoid it if you tried. I think, potentially, a lot more commercial movies, it seems to be that the people making the films are trying to elicit the same reaction. I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.Collection: Art
Im just a lipgloss, blush and mascara kind of girl. I like playing with a bright lipstick or a heavy eye... But not together!Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Purple
I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Dragons
I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I’m glad about. I’d rather be that than a bully.Collection: Bullying