Lily Monica Donaldson is known in the fashion industry as an English model. Her career began quite suddenly. The girl has never dreamed of podiums and never desired it. But an omnipotent case put everything in its place and Lily’s modelling career began to develop rapidly. As a result, the girl achieved dizzying success and the best podiums in the world.
Her photos started to appear in the most famous magazines more and more often. Many fashion houses dreamed of cooperating with her.
Londonka.uk will tell you more about the life path of one of the most successful and famous English models.
The beginning of a modelling career
Lily Donaldson is a native of London. She studied at the Camden School for Girls.
In 2003, a representative of the Select Model Management modelling agency noticed sixteen-year old Lily in one of the local stores. That was the start of the girl’s modelling career.
What is more, it developed so rapidly that in the same year, she took part in the autumn-winter collections shows by Moschino, Chanel, Missoni and Louis Vuitton.
Profitable cooperation
Later, the girl was offered profitable cooperation by other world-famous fashion houses. In particular, we are talking about Gucci, Burberry and Versace.
Lily Donaldson appeared on the cover of the May 2007 issue of the American magazine Vogue together with other famous models, such as Chanel Iman, Caroline Trentini, Jessica Stam and Raquel Zimmerman.
Lily became the main model of the British Vogue issue for September 2007. Almost the entire magazine was decorated with her photos.
Magazine covers
It is worth noting that her photos appeared on twenty-eight Vogue covers in different periods of time. These are British, American, Italian, Chinese, Australian, Japanese, Turkish, Taiwanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian editions of this magazine.
Debut
2010 brought Lily her debut at the Victoria’s Secret show. Since then, she has become a regular participant in its shows. During 2011-2016, she took part in each Victoria’s Secret event.
Recognized success and the Olympics
It is fair to note the fact that in 2009, the Parisian edition of Vogue declared Lily Donaldson one of the best models of the 2000s.
In 2011, Lily headed the spring-summer campaign of Monsoon Accessorize.
During the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Lily was among the British models who took part in the ceremonial part of the event. The models demonstrated dresses by British designers.
Lily presented a golden dress by Vivienne Westwood.
Female friendship
There is a common opinion about the impossibility of friendship in the modelling business, but Lily managed to refute this stereotype. After all, for many years, she has been warm friends with her fellow models Iryna Lazareanu and Gemma Ward. The friends aren’t jealous of each other’s success. On the contrary, they sincerely rejoice at their achievements.
Interesting fact
Another interesting fact from Lily’s biography is that she lived in New York for five years. However, in 2010, she returned to her native London.
Later, she often said that life in a foreign city was not easy for her. Therefore, she repeatedly thought about returning during her entire stay in the USA.
Photo source: wikipedia