Agyness Deyn

Agyness Deyn Agyness Deyn is from Littleborough in Greater Manchester. She is the second of three children. Her mother Lorraine is a nurse. She attended All Saints RC High School and Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and Sixth Form in Waterfoot, Rossendale. Deyn's working life started serving cod, chips and mushy peas part-time ...at 17, which she did in Stubbins. In 1999, she won the Rossendale Free Press "Face of '99" competition, aged just 16. She left home for London, working in a burger joint during the day and a bar at night but she admits: “I tried to make cocktails but it didn’t quite work.During this time she says she was also at college in Hull, studying drama and music. Aged 18, she was spotted by a photographer and snapped up by Models 1 model agency.

She was on the cover of June 2007 issue of UK Vogue. Deyn was also on the cover of the Observer Woman supplement in September 2007.

Deyn has been called the new Kate Moss.