Lily Cole poses for Playboy

Lily Cole will be the cover star of French Playboy

She is best known for high fashion shoots and lucrative advertising campaigns, but now Lily Cole can add yet another magazine cover to her repertoire, with the news that she will front French Playboy.

The 20-year-old model has posed nude for the publication, New York Magazine reports, and will appear as the November cover star.

The gig may sound like a departure for the M&S model, but the men's mag is a more sophisticated and artistic version that the US edition, and French fashionista Lou Doillon has previously posed for its pages.