Edie Campbell

[Nepenthes]

Alexander McQueen F/W 14.15 by Steven Klein



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[Nepenthes]

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[atooomic]

In-cre-di-ble in EVERY single shot!

 

[VogueGirl8910]

Lanvin Fall/Winter 14.15 (Ad Campaign)
Models: Edie & Olympia Campbell
Photographer: Tim Walker


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[Idyll]

She doesn't deserve the hate she gets. To me, she is one of the most interesting models working right now. Intelligent, uniquely beautiful, and versatile.

 

[Nepenthes]

^Totally agree with you.

 

[5 8 6]

I really do not understand the hate, I guess it's her cross to bear for having parents with social connections. To me she is one of the few valid models these days, you can clearly see her versatility in almost every shot.

 

[zoom]

Edie's a brilliant model. Period. She's a baby Stella Tennant in the making.

 

[MartiniKiss]

Audi International's Guards Polo Club in Windsor to support England




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[elfenkind]

The Next Brit Thing by Derek Blasberg

Unlike America, which has a habit of turning the daughters of its social registry into reality-show starlets, England is a place where girls from good families apparently become supermodels. Look no farther than Georgia May Jagger, Alice Dellal, and Cara Delevingne, or Stella Tennant and Jacquetta Wheeler before them: although they may not always dress the part—as soon as these girls were old enough, they all turned in their debutante frocks for dungarees and combat boots—they were all familiar with an opulent life prior to roughing it in the fashion industry.

In recent seasons, we welcomed a new one: Westbourne Grove-born Edie Campbell, 23, who caused a sensation when she opened Marc Jacobs’s historic final show in Paris for Louis Vuitton wearing nothing but a G-string, embroidered bangles, and some strategically placed Vuitton-monogram body paint. She blazed through Paris Fashion Week, appearing in the Balenciaga, Chanel, Givenchy, and Christian Dior shows, and also opening Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen. Not to mention the campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Jil Sander, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, and Lanvin she already has under her belt.


But back to that now memorable nearly naked Vuitton strut. Her call time was three a.m. “I had about six hours of sleep in three days. So I got there and I was kind of exhausted and slightly hung over and they told me I had to stand up while they painted me.” By the end of the seven-hour job, after which she walked straight onto the runway, two assistants were holding her up by her armpits while she nodded off. “Like a crucified Christ. And I was like, ‘This is ridiculous!’ My life had become a parody.”

Campbell’s career has been on a slow boil for more than half a decade. Mario Testino, the photographer who has transformed his fair share of Brit aristo girls into fashion icons, first shot her when she was 15, for a youthquake story in British Vogue. (He is a longtime friend of her mother, Vogue fashion editor turned architect Sophie Hicks.) “She had braces at the time. Can you imagine? And very, very long hair. But even then she reminded me of Penelope Tree,” Testino remembers.

A few months later, he introduced her to Burberry’s Christopher Bailey, who immediately chose her to be in the label’s campaign. “She was a quintessential English rose with a quintessentially British spirit,” Bailey recalls. “Edie was smart, sharp, and entirely her own person. I love that she wears her intelligence and beauty lightly—with a grace, a no-nonsense attitude, and good humor that mark her out from the crowd.”

It was on the Burberry job that she met her current beau, Otis Ferry, a huntsman and avid proponent of the sport, who appeared in the same campaign alongside his father, the singer Bryan Ferry. She definitely left an impression: “Edie was sitting in a corner hiding behind a book. I attempted to make polite conversation in an attempt to comfort her. However, Edie was 15 going on 25 and made it clear by her icy silence that she was very happy with her book and to go bother someone else!,” Ferry recalls. It took a few years for her to warm up, he says. “The next several times I met her I got the similar icy Campbell treatment, too!”

But then two things changed to make her one of the most in-demand models in the industry. First, as Testino explains, she decided she wanted the life. “When I first met her she didn’t want it. I was trying to get her to pose and she just wasn’t into it. Then, all of a sudden, it clicked. I think she enjoys it. I think she believes in it,” he says. She found her niche, too. “Now she has something to contribute apart from being beautiful. She is intelligent and nice to be with. There are a lot of beautiful girls out there. But you need layers. Edie comes with a lot of layers.”

Second, she got a mullet. Her long mane of flowing chestnut locks was cropped into a messy 1980s Chryssie Hynde rocker do and dyed jet black for an American Vogue story that coincided with the “Punk: Chaos to Couture” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute. Hairstylist Guido Palau, who crafted the new look, says, “It was truly what she was underneath. This cocky street kid, this tomboy, came out.”

With the edgy haircut, it all came together: the girl with a dangerous fascination and standoffish demeanor looked the part. “I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you’re a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time. . . . [Many models] seem media-crazed and P.R.-ing it all the time,” Campbell explains. “Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it’s part of the job. But there’s a point where it’s like, Can’t you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?”

Campbell has made a point of maintaining a life and interests outside of fashion. She dedicated herself to a modeling career only after graduating from London’s Courtauld Institute with a degree in the history of art, in June 2013. And she still makes a point of riding one of her two horses (Armani and Dolly) almost every day she is in England. When it comes to the social swirl, she’s just as happy to be a bystander. “I’m not very good at going to parties and looking like I’m having fun. I tend to go there and look like I’m having a **** time. Everyone’s like, ‘Who’s the freak with the mullet in the corner?’ ”

Edie Campbell, photographed in the garden at Fenton House, in Hampstead Grove, London.
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[VogueGirl8910]

Love #12 Fall/Winter 14.15
Upstarts
Photographer: Sølve Sundsbø
Stylist: Robbie Spencer
Featuring: Matilda Lowther, Gareth Pugh, Natalie Westling, Joseph Carter, Erin Morris, Gwaine, Phillipa Hemphrey, Cora Corre, Sara Battaglia, Hailey Baldwin, Ysaunny Brito, Will Poulter, Misha Hart, Edie Campbell, Romy Byrne, Tati Cotliar, Goga Ashkenazi, Dirty Harrys, Liberty Ross, Adwoa Aboah, Hanne Gaby, Ashley Graham, Mica Arganaraz, Alewya Demmisse, Camilla Lowther, Judy Blame, Irina Sharipova, Riyo Nemeth and Jean Campbell
Hair: Syd Hayes
Makeup: Isamaya Ffrench & Hiromi Ueda
Manicure: Adam Slee & Imarni


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[VogueGirl8910]

Love #12 Fall/Winter 14.15
Moping About
Photographer: Drew Jarrett
Models: Edie Campbell and Saskia de Brauw
Stylist: Phoebe Arnold
Hair: Cecilia Romero
Makeup: Hiromi Ueda


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[VogueGirl8910]

Love #12 Fall/Winter 14.15
Wizard
Photographer: Tim Walker
Models: Edie Campbell, Jean Campbell, Kate Moss, Matilda Lowther, Harry Hose and Jake Love
Stylist: Katie Grand
Hair: Sam McKnight
Makeup: Sam Bryant


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[VogueGirl8910]

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[xsquared]

I love Edie's versatility, I don't think many people realise just how malleable her look truly is. She looks so good in Wizard.

 

[Vogueanova]

I miss her long, lighter hair with bangs. She was Jane Birkin's doppelganger.

 

[Nepenthes]

^^Totally agree with you, xsquared.

I don't understand why mdc's top 50 dropped the numbers. Edie would have made a great number one.

 

[LANZO_358]

She's incredible!

 

[atooomic]

I miss her long, lighter hair with bangs. She was Jane Birkin's doppelganger.

Glad I'm not the only one. I liked the black shorter hair on her (even though it took me quite a while to get used to it) but I always loved her long and shiny hair the most.