As a model, Lily Cole has to wear the outfits she is given,
But when it comes to her off-duty style, the 25-year-old prefers to showcase her unique sense of style.
The British beauty cut a somewhat eclectic figure as she sported her favourite pair of bird-print culottes while out in New York on Tuesday.
Bang on trend: Lily Cole recycled her favourite bird-print culottes for a day of shopping in New York on Tuesday
Redhead Lily teamed the trousers with a sheer, white button-down shirt as she waited for a friend in a shop doorway.
While many people may steer away from the unusual trousers, Lily's culottes are in fact bang on trend for the summer and are currently being tipped as the ultimate must-have for the warmer months of the year.
Lily is clearly a fan of the eye-catching bottoms, as she was previously seen sporting the loose-fitting trousers last summer at the 69th Venice Film Festival.
Do the split: Once on the move it becomes clear the model is actually wearing a pair of trousers
From the back: The models fashion choice looks just as elegant from behind
While
the red headed star is unlikely to be feeling the pinch of the never
ending credit crunch (she frequently features in the Sunday Times Rich
List), she proves she is just as thrifty as the rest of us in wearing an
old fashion favourite.
The actress also showed off her brainy attributes last month as she took to Sky Arts with her television series, Lily Cole's Art Matters, adding 'presenter' to her list of growing skills.
With a degree in History of Art from Cambridge University, Cole was more than up to the challenge when it came to interviewing art world heavyweights such as Antony Gormley and Tacita Dean.
'Art has always been incredibly important to me,' she told Sky Arts ahead of her debut in March. 'In its best moments, whatever the medium, it allows a free anarchic spirit of expression to be channelled that, I think, is of fundamental importance to our world.'
Familiar fashion: Lily debuted her bird-print culottes at the Venice Film Festival last September
But when it comes to her off-duty style, the 25-year-old prefers to showcase her unique sense of style.
The British beauty cut a somewhat eclectic figure as she sported her favourite pair of bird-print culottes while out in New York on Tuesday.
Bang on trend: Lily Cole recycled her favourite bird-print culottes for a day of shopping in New York on TuesdayWhile many people may steer away from the unusual trousers, Lily's culottes are in fact bang on trend for the summer and are currently being tipped as the ultimate must-have for the warmer months of the year.
Lily is clearly a fan of the eye-catching bottoms, as she was previously seen sporting the loose-fitting trousers last summer at the 69th Venice Film Festival.
From the back: The models fashion choice looks just as elegant from behindThe actress also showed off her brainy attributes last month as she took to Sky Arts with her television series, Lily Cole's Art Matters, adding 'presenter' to her list of growing skills.
With a degree in History of Art from Cambridge University, Cole was more than up to the challenge when it came to interviewing art world heavyweights such as Antony Gormley and Tacita Dean.
'Art has always been incredibly important to me,' she told Sky Arts ahead of her debut in March. 'In its best moments, whatever the medium, it allows a free anarchic spirit of expression to be channelled that, I think, is of fundamental importance to our world.'
Familiar fashion: Lily debuted her bird-print culottes at the Venice Film Festival last September