Lily Cole ('Like a Painting')

© Miles Aldridge

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Lily Cole ('Like a Painting')

by Miles Aldridge
digital chromogenic print, 2005
19 7/8 in. x 15 in. (506 mm x 380 mm) image size
Given by Miles Aldridge, 2008
Photographs Collection
NPG x131994

Sitterback to top

  • Lily Cole (1987-), Fashion model. Sitter in 6 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Miles Aldridge (1964-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 7 portraits.

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  • 100 Photographs, 2018, p. 134 Read entry

    Lily Cole (b.1987) was spotted by a model scout in Soho at the age of fourteen and signed to Storm model agency. At sixteen, Cole was booked for her first British Vogue cover and was named Model of the Year at the 2004 British Fashion Awards. Since then, she has read history of art at King’s College, Cambridge, and branched out into acting and charity work. Miles Aldridge (b.1964), son of graphic designer Alan Aldridge, began by working as a fashion photographer for British Vogue. His portrait of Cole, influenced by the fifteenth-century portrait of Ginevra d’Este by Pisanello, was published in the February 2005 edition of Italian Vogue.

  • 100 Fashion Icons, p. 166
  • Ribeiro, Aileen; Blackman, Cally, A Portrait of Fashion: Six Centuries of Dress at the National Portrait Gallery, 2015, p. 30

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Current affairs

London suffers its worst bomb attack since the Second World War when four devices are detonated during rush hour on public transport. Three of the bombs went off on tube trains, and one on a bus killing 56 people and injuring 700. A Leeds-based terror cell of British born or raised Islamic extremists committed the attacks.
John Sentamu becomes the first black Archbishop of the Church of England.

Art and science

As part of the international Make Poverty History campaign, ten Live 8 concerts are held simultaneously around the world to coincide with the meeting of the G8 and persuade the world's richest countries to 'drop the debt' owed by the world's poorest countries, increase aid to the world's poorest people and negotiate fairer international trade rules.

International

1,836 die in America as a result of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding. The hurricane was the most costly in US history and one of the most deadly. It caused the levees of Lake Pontchartrain to break, which flooded 80% of New Orleans. About one million people evacuated the city while 25,000 stayed behind, many taking refuge in the city's Superdome.

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