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What's the deal with Daisy Lowe?
Yawn. Another newcomer to the London scene who lives outrageously - famous mummy and daddy, a serial dater of semi-famous random dudes who is often papped half naked and is thus now viewed as famous themselves, lacking in true talent as the generic Z list celeb now is. Consistently confronted with trashy images of Daisy Lowe (i-D magazine front cover with her tits out was somewhat interesting) and miraculously not feeling the buzz, I decided to check this chick out. Surprised is an understatement. Firstly, at the fact she is only 19. Secondly, at my horrifically stereotypical pre-conception of Miss Lowe…this is not unfounded, but far from the truth.
With a potentially unsettling personal background, Lowe has, unlike other stars thrusted into limelight too early (need I mention LiLo?), remained pretty damn grounded. Being publically revealed as a love child of a guy now married to Gwen Stefani must distort your perception of reality just a teeny bit. What Lowe hasn’t done, which any other brat brought up under spotlights would have, is use this revelation for more publicity. So brownie points to her.
Leaving school at the age of 17 to pursue a modelling career, claiming she’ll work just as hard outside school as she would have in the institution, may seem to many pretty stupid. There are clear reasons we all endured levels of education – grades are back ups…bullet points on our CV that when mentioned we become self proud and smile smugly. Lowe was either extremely vain in the large assumption that she’ll make it big time without such credits, or massively mature for her age and clued up on what she can do for herself. Thankfully, it’s the latter.
I always assumed her main talent was to stir up the media, create some mindless gossip to fill columns and generally lie lazily in the public eye to ensure she is not forgotten. What I was ignorant to was how early on she started modelling (scouted in Camden Town at 15) and how progressively her career has moved since then. Notches on her envious belt include shoots with Italian Vogue, W magazine, Jane magazine as well as modelling for the Urban Outfitters catalogue and FCUK printed advertisements. She is also a face often seen gracing the catwalks, and has worked with remarkable designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, PPQ, Henry Holland and Vivienne Westwood, not to mention revealing her curvaceous body for Agent Provocateur lingerie in the past three years. If I carried on with this list…she will inevitably get an inflamed ego, so I’ll just finish by mentioning Daisy replaces Cole Mohr this year as the face of Marc by Marc Jacobs. Nice touch.
Aside of all this, another pretty fabulous thing about Daisy is her refusal to become another super skinny size zero model. Content with her normal feminine figure of size 8 -10, she was once told by a New York agent to lose weight, so she simply changed agents. What a refreshing outlook in such a fickle fashion world. Besides her appearance and demeanour, she has also turned her hand towards the turntables as a cute DJ, and appeared in a couple of music videos too.
In hindsight, Daisy Lowe is actually a pretty sound individual. She deserves a massive pat on the back for achieving her dreams (corny, I know, but true) and owes her success to herself rather than others. A fast track lane to fame has not fuzzed her perception of who she is, and she often quotes that ultimately she wants just to settle down and have a family. Back to the original question then, what’s the deal with Daisy Lowe? The deal IS Daisy Lowe, and she’s just gained another impressed fan.
Nicola Louise Watson
05/02/09
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