May 9, 201312 yr Author i-D SUMMER 2013 Model: Lily McMenamy Ph: Benjamin Alexander Huseby St: Elgar Johnson
June 5, 201311 yr Author ModModel 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
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October 9, 201311 yr INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER 2013The ExhibitionistsModels: Malgosia Bela, Catherine McNeil, Tilda Lindstam, Jamie Bochert, Aymeline Valade, Freja Beha Erichsen, Liya Kebede, Daria Strokous, Missy Rayder, Lily Donaldson, Arizona Muse, Lily McMenamy, Kati NescherPhotographed: Mikael JanssonStyled: Ludivine Poiblanc glossynewsstand
October 9, 201311 yr "Simplemente Slimane" ("Simply Slimane") for Harper's Bazaar Spain September 2013Photographer: Xevi MuntaneStylist: Melania PanHair + Make-up: Beatriz MetallanaManicure: Irina CiudadText: Sara Hernando
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