[2] She went to Wheatley Park School,[3] and was called Laura Birks then attended the University of Southampton.

[citation needed] Bailey's most notable campaigns include Guess jeans, L'Oreal, Jaguar, Jaeger, Marks and Spencer, Bella Freud, Ray-Ban, Oetker Collection hotel, Bodas, Temperley London and Solange Azagury-Partridge.

[citation needed] As a photographer her work has been published in Vogue, Violet Book, FT How To Spend It and more, alongside personal portrait and documentary projects.

[citation needed] Bailey has also produced and starred in a number of short films for fashion labels including Bella Freud,[4] Solange Azagury-Partridge,[5] Trager Delaney,[6] and Shrimps.

[8][9] Bailey also works as a writer and has written on travel and style for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, The Independent, the FT, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.