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Thanks everyone for all the pics. She's so pretty! In some pics, she might look a bit washed out and trashy, but her style totally rules
www.timesonline.co.uk
Laura Bailey, one of the faces of M&S, reveals she enjoyed appearing nearly naked for a good cause
The daughter of a law professor, Laura Bailey, 34, studied at the University of Southampton before being spotted by a model-agency scout on Kings Road, Chelsea. She has been the face of Guess, Pretty Polly, Revlon and Jaeger, as well as starring alongside Erin O’Connor, Lizzie Jagger, Noémie Lenoir and Twiggy in Marks & Spencer’s advertising campaigns. She is also working with the ethical insurance company www.ibuyeco.co.uk, which aims to offset the environmental damage caused by cars.
Going on the Marks & Spencer shoots is a bit like going on school camp. Lizzie [Jagger] always arrives with trunkloads of stuff; she has clothes and beauty products for everyone. Noémie is the extrovert, Erin is the English Icon and Twiggy keeps us all together – she’s the mother figure. It’s fair to say that we have all learnt a lot from her. We have a great time; you can see the confidence in the final shots. Stuart Rose [the chief executive of M&S] comes along, too; you can feel his handprint on everything.
I haven’t had any problem looking after my child while wearing high heels. I’m naturally a scruff, but I also like to role-play with my clothes. I’m very eclectic – I’m typically English in that way, actually. And I’m not somebody who could wear a dress only once. I’m not immune to trends, but I hope that I’m not the kind of person to go and buy the current “It bag”. I do have a beautiful, big Chanel bag, but it is the same beautiful, big Chanel bag that I’ve had for the past three years – and I use it every day. Now I am much more aware of buying things that I will have for ever.
If I were a piece of clothing, I would be a sundress. Because that is what I’ve got the most of in my wardrobe, it’s what I'm happiest in. I’m a total summer baby. I’m about a thousand times happier on a sunny day. I despair when the weather is gloomy.
Are there things that I wouldn’t wear? Fur and kitten heels.
Today it is easier to be cool and green than cool and not green. I hope that I can stay stylish and environmentally friendly; I didn’t wake up one day with a sudden urge to buy a pair of ethical shoes, but I’ve started asking questions about where, and under what conditions, my clothes are manufactured. Marks & Spencer is a quiet but powerful environmental pioneer; it is proving that you can have fast fashion with a conscience. I believe that its Plan A initiative is a blueprint for future fashion production. Then there are designers such as Stella McCartney who have always had very sound principles ethically and environmentally. She has always stuck to her guns, which I admire.
I was old when I started modelling. It’s a cliché, but an agent spotted me on Kings Road when I was 22. I was fresh out of university and had never considered modelling. My first job was to pose as a young Britt Ekland for a book launch. I’d like to think that my life would not be so different without the modelling – though obviously there would be fewer pictures and fewer parties. I didn’t think my son would make the connection between me in person and my billboard images, but he used to stop, point and say, “Mother”. I thought that it was so sweet until I realised that he was doing it with all blonde girls.
I haven’t had any embarrassing modelling moments per se, but I’ve had plenty of weird ones, most of them involving extremes of temperature. I had always wanted to go to Venice, preferably when I was in love, but I ended up on the Grand Canal fearing that I might be swept to my death – or to get to it via hypothermia.
I’ve never been one of those models who can just strip off in the middle of the studio, but the nude photoshoot for 4 Inches [a book in which beautiful women posed in high heels, and little else, to raise money for the Elton John Aids Foundation] was surprisingly liberating.
Anorexia is such a serious issue, but people can’t just blame the media. It’s so dangerous to oversimplify the problem. Yes, newspapers and magazines need to have a responsible attitude to so-called ideal female images, but the problem runs much deeper than that. I’m an ambassador for Barnardo’s and constantly work with teenagers who have problems; believe me, they’re not obsessed with thin girls in the media. Models are an easy scapegoat.
Laura Bailey, one of the faces of M&S, reveals she enjoyed appearing nearly naked for a good cause
The daughter of a law professor, Laura Bailey, 34, studied at the University of Southampton before being spotted by a model-agency scout on Kings Road, Chelsea. She has been the face of Guess, Pretty Polly, Revlon and Jaeger, as well as starring alongside Erin O’Connor, Lizzie Jagger, Noémie Lenoir and Twiggy in Marks & Spencer’s advertising campaigns. She is also working with the ethical insurance company www.ibuyeco.co.uk, which aims to offset the environmental damage caused by cars.
Going on the Marks & Spencer shoots is a bit like going on school camp. Lizzie [Jagger] always arrives with trunkloads of stuff; she has clothes and beauty products for everyone. Noémie is the extrovert, Erin is the English Icon and Twiggy keeps us all together – she’s the mother figure. It’s fair to say that we have all learnt a lot from her. We have a great time; you can see the confidence in the final shots. Stuart Rose [the chief executive of M&S] comes along, too; you can feel his handprint on everything.
I haven’t had any problem looking after my child while wearing high heels. I’m naturally a scruff, but I also like to role-play with my clothes. I’m very eclectic – I’m typically English in that way, actually. And I’m not somebody who could wear a dress only once. I’m not immune to trends, but I hope that I’m not the kind of person to go and buy the current “It bag”. I do have a beautiful, big Chanel bag, but it is the same beautiful, big Chanel bag that I’ve had for the past three years – and I use it every day. Now I am much more aware of buying things that I will have for ever.
If I were a piece of clothing, I would be a sundress. Because that is what I’ve got the most of in my wardrobe, it’s what I'm happiest in. I’m a total summer baby. I’m about a thousand times happier on a sunny day. I despair when the weather is gloomy.
Are there things that I wouldn’t wear? Fur and kitten heels.
Today it is easier to be cool and green than cool and not green. I hope that I can stay stylish and environmentally friendly; I didn’t wake up one day with a sudden urge to buy a pair of ethical shoes, but I’ve started asking questions about where, and under what conditions, my clothes are manufactured. Marks & Spencer is a quiet but powerful environmental pioneer; it is proving that you can have fast fashion with a conscience. I believe that its Plan A initiative is a blueprint for future fashion production. Then there are designers such as Stella McCartney who have always had very sound principles ethically and environmentally. She has always stuck to her guns, which I admire.
I was old when I started modelling. It’s a cliché, but an agent spotted me on Kings Road when I was 22. I was fresh out of university and had never considered modelling. My first job was to pose as a young Britt Ekland for a book launch. I’d like to think that my life would not be so different without the modelling – though obviously there would be fewer pictures and fewer parties. I didn’t think my son would make the connection between me in person and my billboard images, but he used to stop, point and say, “Mother”. I thought that it was so sweet until I realised that he was doing it with all blonde girls.
I haven’t had any embarrassing modelling moments per se, but I’ve had plenty of weird ones, most of them involving extremes of temperature. I had always wanted to go to Venice, preferably when I was in love, but I ended up on the Grand Canal fearing that I might be swept to my death – or to get to it via hypothermia.
I’ve never been one of those models who can just strip off in the middle of the studio, but the nude photoshoot for 4 Inches [a book in which beautiful women posed in high heels, and little else, to raise money for the Elton John Aids Foundation] was surprisingly liberating.
Anorexia is such a serious issue, but people can’t just blame the media. It’s so dangerous to oversimplify the problem. Yes, newspapers and magazines need to have a responsible attitude to so-called ideal female images, but the problem runs much deeper than that. I’m an ambassador for Barnardo’s and constantly work with teenagers who have problems; believe me, they’re not obsessed with thin girls in the media. Models are an easy scapegoat.
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Thanks as always Cosmocat. You always pull through for my Laura Bailey fixes 
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Look how muscly her legs are in that last outfit!
Karma Look how muscly her legs are in that last outfit!
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I love how she mixes different colours and still looks amazing
She's such a beauty, I just love her! 
A BUMP IN THE ROAD
MARKS & SPENCER has reportedly dropped Laura Bailey from its ad campaigns now she is pregnant. Despite receiving an overwhelmingly positive response to its shots of heavily pregnant musician Myleene Klass this summer, the retailer has chosen not to use Bailey - who is expecting her second child, with her film producer husband Eric Fellner, in April - after her starring role in its Christmas ads. M&S claims that the British model was simply unavailable to take part in January's shoot - something Bailey's spokesperson denies. "It is categorically untrue that she was asked," he told the Sunday Telegraph. "I don't know where they got that from." Bailey is part of the original "dream team" model line-up, along with Twiggy, Erin O'Connor and Elizabeth Jagger, which has been widely credited with turning around the fortunes of M&S' clothing lines. The retailer concedes that it will consider Bailey for future campaigns "on a case by case basis". (November 19 2007, AM)
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Had no idea she was pregnant again. Congrats to her.
