Lily McMenamy

[Gábor]

Model of the moment Lily McMenamy is sitting in the lobby of the Dream Downtown wearing a long-sleeved black-and-white striped T-shirt with a short, full black skirt, and a black denim jacket that has her name sewn in red, high above the breast pocket.

Raised in London and now based in Paris, she has recently arrived in New York to shoot the Marc Jacobs fall ad campaign—a dream job, she admits cheerfully, that kept her at work “in Central Park until 2:00 a.m.” the night before last. Perhaps you recall the model who wore only a pair of pin-striped shorts, opera-length gloves, and black patent heels in Jacobs’s fall 2013 show? That was McMenamy, covering her chest with her right arm in what was only her third runway appearance, ever. “First I couldn’t really believe that they were asking me to go topless, and then they were, like, ‘We’re being serious,’ and so I was, like, ‘All right. Fine,’ ” she explains with a laugh. “Marc and I talked a lot about my hand positioning. I wanted to do this.” She presses both her palms to her T-shirt. “But he said it’d be much classier with one hand. Like, ‘Oh, Mr. Produuuucer.’ I had to walk three times. When I came backstage after the first, I said, ‘Marc, was it all right?’ and he said, ‘Amazing.’ So I thought, okay, I can do it again.”

That easy, game-for-anything spirit—combined with her refreshingly unconventional beauty—has already made McMenamy, 19, a burgeoning muse to designers like Jacobs and Hedi Slimane. It’s a quality she may have inherited from her mother, Kristen McMenamy, the grunge-era supermodel whose similarly hard-to-put-your-finger-on good looks have made her one of fashion’s most enduring faces. (Nearing 50, Kristen McMenamy still models with terrific frequency). When asked if there are any on-the-job tips she’s learned from her mother, McMenamy says, “We don’t really talk about modeling stuff.” Though, when it comes to beauty tricks, there is one thing: apricot kernel face scrub. “My mum uses it every morning and every night. I just started, but only once a week.” Otherwise, she keeps her skin-care routine simple. “I use this foaming wash from Clarins. And I do Cattier’s Masque Argile Verte. Do they have that here? It’s the number-one beauty thing in Paris. You get it at a drug store. It’s like clay. But you can’t leave it on too long or your face turns into a rock.”

How else has becoming a model––practically overnight––changed the way McMenamy thinks about beauty? “I’ve had to tone down my makeup. I can’t exactly show up to a casting with Amy Winehouse eyes. But I do love a cat eye. I do love lips––burgundy red, never orange, and never pink. I do love lips and eyes at the same time, totally.” As for her hair, “when I started, it was down to here,” she says, pointing to her waist. “That was a bit of an issue because whenever I’d need a wig they’d have to wrap it up for, like, four years.” She eventually took a few inches off the bottom, which seems to have had the effect of making her want to go even shorter. “Did you see the Louis Vuitton show?” she says wistfully. “I really want a black bob.” Stay tuned.

vogue.com

 

[CATO]

MARC JACOBS F/W 13.14 AD CAMPAIGN
Edie Campbell & Lily McMenamy by Juergen Teller

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[lemeray]

Ummmmmmm....I'm speechless...

 

[ad31214]

Big thumbs down from me...good for her but I can't into it.

 

[CATO]

models

 

[thatsfierce]

^Awful.

 

[ad31214]

Just wondering does she actually have a British accent?

 

[5 8 6]

Just wondering does she actually have a British accent?

Well, judging from the i-D Magazine video, she does have a british accent.

 

[daggertrepe]

I know I'm one of the few but I think she's great. I don't think that awful campaign is her fault.

 

[en lice]

I know I'm one of the few but I think she's great. I don't think that awful campaign is her fault.

I second that. she can be impressive in print because of that stare.
I'd just say the first picture of the campaign posted here is a pretty bad choice, her facial expression is quite awkward. but everything in that campaign is bad taste (the set, haircuts, make-up, clothes), so I wouldn't blame her either

one video posted on this thread made me like her, she sounds slick and understated, which is a quite big distinction in this business

filling this thread with the same mean comments over and over is malicious in my opinion

 

[foreverandnone]

I feel like she has potential..but it's almost like she's trying to look terrible and ...really weird. She seems like a sweetie tho

 

[daggertrepe]

Upon a second look she seems to have some similar features to Vanessa Axente but I can't really pinpoint it. I really like this girl.

 

[5 8 6]

Lily at Hedi Slimane's birthday party in Paris:

She seems like such a cool girl.
(hedislimane.com/diary)

 

[ad31214]

Girls getting doownnnn

 

[Vitamine W]

Those are not your average birthday snaps, Im pretty sure Hedi is not a teenager anymore. It totally looks like a he art directed a campaign, ehr.. his party.

 

[5 8 6]

Girls getting doownnnn

She seems pretty wild! In an interview she actually confessed: "Last night I sat front row, drank mojitos, drank champagne, drank vodka, danced with Hedi Slimane, kissed Franz Ferdinand, threw up on Andre, and slept on a chair, in a hotel, under the Eiffel Tower with a blonde model couple. My life is a joke". Girl sure knows how to party. :cool2:

 

[thatsfierce]

In those shots, she looks much better than marc jacob's campaign

 

[Melancholybaby]

*marcjacobs.com

 

[Nymphaea]

In those shots, she looks much better than marc jacob's campaign

When I saw those party pics, I was thinking exact the same. She looks sooo much better in those pics!

 

[beedonaldson]

Modern Weekly China July 4, 2013
Ph: Frederik Heyman



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