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“I was once the prototypical material girl. But I went from the little girl who didn’t have much and wanted everything, to the girl who would buy piles of stuff and didn’t know what to do with it…I used to burn for the fanciest clothes in the fanciest shops, but I now look back fondly at my mum stitching up a torn designer dress with parts of my window curtains.”
Read more from Lily Cole and Green is the New Black (an imminent earth-friendly style bible by fashion editor Tamsin Blanchard) on Nylon.






