The Crush: Lily Cole

Lily Cole, this is us ‘leaning in’.

Let’s network, brainstorm, idea-share. Let’s hook up for some environmental badinage… and maybe more. Your endless high-achieving is totally turning us on and we want a piece of it. The apple-cheeked alpha female is not just a pretty face. But by ditching modelling for acting, charity work and other head girl-like activities, sadly Lily has put a stop to our fawning over her otherworldly beauty for now.

Crush salutes her endeavours to save the world, but Lily can really rock a runway and, well, sometimes the fashion world needs her help, too. In the meantime we’ll settle for swooning over Lil’s intellectual pursuits. As if a Double First from Cambridge isn’t enough, last week she collected an honorary doctorate for humanitarian and environmental work (and even made that floppy velvet hat-thing look cool).

Crush is equally taken by Ms Cole’s on-screen appearances, though we’re more into her being burned alive in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new video than Doctor Parnassus, obviously. So, in short, Lily’s turning into our ideal woman. She’s beautiful, smart, ethically glamorous and has multimillionaire Twitter-founder friends with yachts. What a catch.