“My mum always put me off [modelling],” Lila tells Ellie Pithers in the May 2022 issue of British Vogue. “She was always like, ‘If you wanna do it, you can, but I wouldn’t recommend it.’”
” event alongside her mother, where she strolled the reflective runway in a Versace by Fendi baroque-printed swimsuit that incidentally showed off her Omnipod insulin pump. “That was epic,” she says, grinning, recalling the show. “She was very particular about her look,” says friend and artistic director of Fendi womenswear and couture
. “She likes to dress up and knows what she likes to wear. But I love the way Lila is just Lila – she has a confidence about her.”cover is another milestone for Moss. She excitedly shows me some behind-the-scenes pictures from the set in New York. In one she is eating a chia pudding in a futuristic Loewe look; in another she is being sewn into a corset.
The light is fading in north-west London as we contemplate carrot cake, but then we are asked to vacate our table. It seems being a thrice-weekly mushrooms-on-toast customer and burgeoning fashion star is not enough to secure a coveted Greenberry Café spot in Primrose Hill past the allotted time. We walk down a tree-lined street towards the park, where Lila brings her dogs, Archie and Stanley, for a runaround when they’re not at the family pad in the Cotswolds.
We reach her car, a new electric Mini. She just passed her test and is building up her confidence after a disastrous first drive out with her mum in the vintage white Mini she received for her 18th birthday. “We were just driving round the block, really – very much in the vicinity of Highgate School, where I used to go,” she recalls. “And I got to the corner and I stalled, because it was kind of up a hill.