headed to the National Museum of Science and Technology of Milan on her one day off from walking runways. A science buff studying information science at Cornell, she uses her downtime to explore artificial intelligence and how it merges with spirituality and religion. “It works very well with modeling. In between jobs you have downtime, and with computer stuff you can do it whenever you want,” says Cole over Zoom.
Cole, 20, never intended to become a model and instead was busy as a sophomore at Cornell. By chance, she visited New York for the day last June with a friend and was spotted in Washington Square Park by the designer Batsheva Hay, who was in the midst of street casting and photographing her resort 2022 look book. “Lior walked by, and I thought it was too good to be true,” Hay says. “She was so tall and had long curly hair and this sweet naive smile.
As for modeling, Cole wants to pursue it as long as possible and considers it another curious path for her to explore. “When I was younger, I wasn’t like, Oh, I want to be a computer scientist when I’m older. I figured that out when I was in college,” she says. “And now that I got scouted, I’m like, This is cool too!’”
Cyborg!