Cara Delevingne on Childhood, Love Life, and Modeling. Cara Delevingne in a Prada dress and Repossi ear cuff. Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, Vogue, July 2. With a host of movie roles on the horizon, Cara Delevingne is living the life she always wanted and is ready to be unfiltered and unguarded as never before. Grinning and conspiratorial, all kinetic limbs and generous laughter, possessed of a demeanor that suggests that she has both seen it all and seen nothing at all, she slips so readily into familiarity that it. I say my body is a roller coaster. Acting is and always was the thing: . Modeling is the opposite of real. If teenage audiences respond to it as they did the film version of Green. Cara is wearing the skinniest suit imaginable, from the Kooples, and a pair of Chanel trainers. She tugs a cube of meat off a skewer with her teeth, offering the wink- and- grin- and- head- tilt that her thirteen million Instagram followers (that. True, she has a few active- duty leaves from the Suicide Squad set in the coming weeks. I mean, the bubble gives you a kind of dysfunctional family. But Cara, according to her colleagues in both fashion and film, appears to possess gifts that her thwarted predecessors lacked. For starters, she has become the preeminent model of her era through the brazen display of personality, that thing most models are now richly paid to hide. Far from a rare orchid that wilts in the breath of more noxious air, Cara, simmering with life on the runway, boils over with life off it. She has been called the next Kate Moss, but the similarities begin and end at their shortish stature (for their profession, that is: both are five- eight), English background, and penchant for late nights. Whereas Kate has retained an essential unknowability, Cara seems always to be declaring, . Perhaps it will ease the passage of all that veritas she seems intent on spilling. Her mother, Pandora, a London society beauty in her day, is the daughter of the late Sir Jocelyn Stevens, a publishing magnate, and Jane Sheffield, lady- in- waiting to Princess Margaret and a charter member of the princess. I know there are people who have stopped and are fine now, but not in my circumstance. She recalls spending an inordinate amount of time in the offices of mental health professionals whom, she admits, she tended to . At nine, she was told she had the reading ability of a sixteen- year- old.
Writing was always hard, exams a nightmare. After her sixth- form year, the Delevingnes sent her to Bedales, a posh but arty boarding school. I just wanted to dematerialize and have someone sweep me away. The worst thing was that I knew I was a lucky girl, and the fact that you would rather be dead . Like, how dare I feel that way? So you just attack yourself some more. Her sister Poppy was already modeling, and Cara had been noticed by an agency executive whose daughter was a schoolmate. But modeling was a rough ride at first. She worked for a year before booking a paying job and paraded through two seasons of castings before landing her first runway show. Never trust a straight photographer at a test shoot. At eighteen, she was a late bloomer relative to her model friends Karlie Kloss and Jourdan Dunn, who made their runway debuts in their mid- teens. While it's an honor just to be nominated, some movies have hauled away an armload of statues on Oscar night. See our gallery of films that earned four or more Academy. The lush, expressive caterpillars above her eyes shook the bushy brow awake from a three- decade hibernation, and on the runway, her half- upturned mouth, which seemed to suggest a mind dancing with naughty ideas, looked delicious within a sea of glazed, blank- looking beauties. In a certain sense she. In our industry, people can be rather forced, not genuinely themselves. Cara would never pretend to be someone she. It was a machine that I wasn. Somebody should have said stop. She spent a week in the Los Angeles sun writing poetry and music, and the psoriasis disappeared. But back in New York, she continued to distract herself by partying. It rots your insides, though. For me it comes out in an addiction to work. She was due to leave on vacation the next day, in the grip of an unshakable insomnia. I was packing my bags, and suddenly I just wanted to end it. I had a way, and it was right there in front of me. And I was like, I need to decide whether I love myself as much as I love the idea of death. And it made me so furious with myself. She thinks acting and music, always the long- term plan, saved her. At this point her ambition to play music, she says, . Cara sings with a restrained rasp, though her heroes are more unleashed: Prince and Al Green. But in working with her, what amazed me was how prepared she was, how carefully she studied. I kind of always thought you had to choose. But then most people don. Cara is due to appear in no fewer than seven films: The Face of an Angel, Michael Winterbottom. Their paths diverged years earlier, when Margo ascended to queen of her high school. The next day, she disappears, fueling the mystery at the film. Her boyfriend cheats on her, and she screws up his little life. Paper Towns is about how simultaneously oppressive and irresistible it can be to be the object of collective fantasy and projection. One evening, she whisked a group of her castmates to a hotel suite at a water park. On another occasion, she recruited 3. A$AP Ferg. But after playing Margo, I broke up with my boyfriend in a totally Margo way. I wrote him a letter and left. She conveys a Millennial. And for those words to come out of my mouth is actually a miracle. I had one two nights ago where I went up to a guy in the back of a VW minivan, with a bunch of his friends around him, and pretty much jumped him. I have only been hurt by women, my mother first of all. And that scares me to death because I think I. There are no photographers in sight, and indeed the only person who appears to recognize Cara in the amber light is the barmaid, who as we leave approaches to tell her she. Cara pulls it open to find a message?
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