Her eyebrows launched 1,000 photoshoots but now the top model is making it big on screen – as an exiled faerie in a fantasy thriller opposite Orlando Bloom
‘Oh my gosh, I love your dress!” Cara Delevingne stretches out a hand and nods approvingly. It’s an offhand comment, but it still feels like a big compliment coming from someone who has twice been named model of the year at the
British fashion awards, the woman who singlehandedly sold bushy brows to the masses, and who – for a time – was so conspicuous that you could barely pick up a magazine without said brows staring back at you. For her part, Delevingne looks laid-back yet pristine, the same way wealthy people do at airports – sequin top and impractical-for-most white trousers; smudgy, kohl-rimmed eyes that are just the right side of slept in; a loose French plait slung over one shoulder; “curated” diamond piercings snaking up both ears. She chose her top because it was in the colours of the union jack but, come to think of it, she says, “it could be the
American flag couldn’t it ... or, er, French?”
However, Delevingne quickly puts the kibosh on the fashion chat, because she is an actor, too – and seemingly in it for the long haul. Since 2015, the 27-year-old has been on a break from her first career, the one in which the privileged goddaughter of Joan Collins became an unexpectedly relatable icon, ushering in the now ubiquitous pizza-noshing, Insta-friendly model who’s as likely to be talking about their mental health as they are jumping on a private jet (she once chartered Karl Lagerfeld’s to fly from Austria to London).