- The Romeo of Hollywood.
I mean, I think it's funny.
I'll be Romeo any day.
Here, take me as your Romeo.
[upbeat music]
Hi Vogue, it's Cara Delevingne here,
welcome to My Life in Looks.
I hope there's nothing too embarrassing in here,
so let's see.
[pen spinning on table]
Okay.
Oh wow.
I was quite awkward at taking photos at that time,
so I got little hunch shoulders.
I loved to kinda dress up
and become someone else or I don't know,
I loved using fashion like that
to make me feel a certain way
or to make me feel like I had extra powers.
I always thought that style
was something more that you would have as a costume,
that's always how I saw clothes
because I just thought,
"Whatever I can put on,
it can make me feel a certain way."
Like a outfit or a cape.
Next one.
That was my first time walking in a Burberry Show,
I remember that because I think I was very nervous
as you would be,
the shoes were very,
very tall,
I was still getting a hand on how to walk in heels,
which I'm still figuring out.
I remember getting that bag
and I was like,
"That bag was heavy."
So, I was like,
"How am I gonna do this all?"
I just remember always when I was walking down,
first couple of times,
all that was going through my head was,
"Please don't fall.
Please don't fall.
Please don't fall."
Which doesn't really look like that in my face,
thank God I had a poker face at that point.
That's what I always did in a rehearsal,
I would always try
and purposefully trip,
like a little bit,
maybe fall over in the house,
so I wouldn't fall over in the show.
[page turning]
Aha, this was my first Chanel Show,
it was a couture show,
I was terrified,
when I get scared,
I talk too much
and I act erratically,
I was very much just terrified
and I think I remember seeing Karl for the first time
and just standing there,
awkwardly not trying to look at him
and he just came up to me,
and said,
"Don't worry, you're meant to be here."
It made me feel very,
very safe
and secure,
but it was amazing,
it was setup like a plane
and we all like air stewardesses,
but I really loved that show,
it was really,
really special.
That was the beginning of my relationship with Chanel,
which was absolutely wonderful
and Karl whom I love,
and adore still,
definitely changed my life forever.
He was a very private person,
Karl I think,
he let the clothes speak for themselves
and I think when he did speak,
what came out was his fashion
and he made it look so easy,
everything he did,
it just always came to him,
but he was actually just very kind to people
and he very much,
we made friends.
There was just a lot of things
that people didn't know about Karl
and that's what I really,
I always felt so grateful to have known all that.
Oh wow, I'm a child!
I look the same age as I did in the first photo.
That was Anna Karenina,
Joe Wright,
it was a very interesting part,
it was a non-speaking role,
but again,
it was my first foray into acting in movies.
My first shot was a wide-scene,
with a wide-shot
and I was sitting in a group of people,
and Joe Wright came up to me,
and he was like,
"Stop trying to look pretty."
Because I think for so long as being a model,
I trained myself to know where cameras are
and to know how to make my face look a certain way,
and look pretty because I didn't feel that way.
The kind of acting I had,
realized I had to unlearn all that I'd learned in modeling
because acting is the one that came originally,
like came naturally to me in terms of putting myself
in other people's shoes
and trying to understand where people,
and why people do things.
I loved it,
I always wanted to do it,
but that was kind of the beginning.
Next one,
those ringlets are huge.
Aha, that was Marc Jacobs,
that was an amazing show.
That wasn't the show where I had really bad psoriasis,
it was the show
and you can't see it because I was painted.
That was one of my last shows
where I just decided to stop for a while
because I'd worked so much.
I was covered in foundation
and exhausted,
and it was at the end of my fashion month.
No one is perfect,
God no.
I mean, if anyone was,
they wouldn't be happy.
I had cystic acne at 25,
which is a nightmare,
but you know that was something I got,
I never had bad skin before that.
Some people,
especially young girls look up to models
and be like,
"Oh, I wanna look like that."
No one looks like that,
no one,
no one.
This is my second Met Ball,
I loved this look,
it was very cool,
I think the year was Punk.
I was with Sienna Miller that year on the Burberry table,
who's one of my really great friends.
I just love that look so much,
but again, it was a very hard year to hug anyone,
everyone had spikes all over them,
so I was like,
"Hi, how are you?
Ow! That really,
really hurt."
It was some kind of a nightmare for everyone
to get close to each other,
but that was hysterical.
[relaxing music]
Oh, my first Vogue US cover.
Joan and Carly,
wow that is so crazy,
that was so long ago,
it was a foldout cover,
so there was a lot,
a lot of us on there.
Those two were like you know,
model icons to me
and I was like,
"What am I doing in the middle of this?"
That's so funny,
The Insta Girls.
So this,
oh my God,
I was like,
"I'm a piece of pink cheese."
That was one of the funnest shows ever,
it was me,
Joan and Rihanna running around
pushing each other in a shopping cart.
I definitely wanted to steal
a lot of the things from that day,
I mean, a Chanel chainsaw?
It did work by the way,
I didn't tell anyone,
but apparently it did.
But that was very sweet yeah,
because at the end I walked around with Karl,
which was very,
very nice.
He always liked to push me
and I didn't know he was pushing me
into doing things that I didn't think I could do,
he got me
and Pharrell to do a whole movie that he directed,
and recorded a song together,
but he always asked me my opinion on things
and asked me what I would do if I did a fashion show.
And I just always found it very funny
because it's like,
"Why does he wanna know what I think?"
I mean,
I just thought I was always weird
and a bit goofy,
but he always just made me feel a lot more confident
in my creative ideas than I ever did,
which I never really realized
how much confidence he gave me,
just not as a model,
but as an artist,
he didn't want me to see myself as a model,
he wanted to see,
he wanted me to believe in myself more than that,
which was very,
very sweet.
[page turning]
This was when I was Stella McCartney
and I covered myself in tattoos,
it was done by Bang Bang,
I don't know,
I just wanted to add some flare to it,
it took a long time,
they were all like stuck on,
but then repainted,
that was a beautiful year.
You know, they're like a passport of my life on my body,
I suppose this was my first,
I think these are my second,
third, I don't know which way they go.
This one I love,
it's a tiger
and a redheaded woman,
I think they're post-coital.
This is my mothers name, Pandora.
This is a elephant to remind me of my grandmother
who died at 105, Angela.
This is a wine glass that I have with Kaia
and Charlotte Lawrence,
this is a rose that I have with Paris Jackson.
A lion, a snake,
a heart I have with
[speaking softly]
A white tattoo that says breathe deep,
it's not grammatically correct,
it should be breathe deeply,
but if it said deeply,
the ly would go into my armpit,
which would be weird.
That's about all you can see I think,
there is others somewhere,
but I won't show you those.
Next one.
This was at the VMA's for the music video Bad Blood,
that's a funny photo with Taylor
and Selena,
and Hailey.
That's where all the girls kinda came to support Taylor
and I think we won that year
because I have a Moon Man in my house,
so we must've done,
we did win,
that was a really fun video,
it was just a lot of us girls getting together
and being bad-asses,
I mean, I get to haul around nunchucks
with one of my best friends,
yeah it was amazing.
Ah, this was my second US Vogue cover,
this was with Paper Towns,
that was an amazing experience I was doing as an actress,
which was amazing to be able to be
on the cover of US Vogue as an actress,
was so cool,
dream come true.
That was shot by the late Patrick Demarchelier
who I loved,
I worked with so many times.
This was Paper Towns Premiere,
New York City.
I am wearing a beautiful Salone dress,
I got to revisit what it would be like
to be in an American high school,
but although I was like 21,
everyone else was under 21,
but it was just,
it was a great job,
I loved being Margot,
that character was so fun,
that was kinda my first time really being heavily,
heavily into an accent
and then not getting out of it for a while,
I think I had a problem switching back after a minute.
Oh, I think this is sometime around Suicide Squad,
I'm wearing a Puma tracksuit,
I look like a boss,
I've got my glasses on,
no one can stop me with my ferocious street style.
Puma have been an amazing,
amazing, amazing company to work with,
I've been able to start working with The Trevor Project,
design different collections,
I did one with Olivier from Balmain,
I've done my Exhale Collection,
which is my yoga collection,
I designed the Pride Collection with them,
which also was so helpful
because I love being able to do something
that can help other people, you know?
As in terms of the proceeds.
They're really out there trying to make a difference
because I think out of all these really big companies,
they really wanna you know,
try and push the envelope in terms of sustainability.
This was Chanel,
Karl always liked me to kind of have my own take
on wearing Chanel looks,
got my Supreme Boxers on,
which I also still have,
maybe not the exact ones,
but that was when I was doing a lot of yoga
because I'm wearing my chain,
which I got from India,
which is a Hindu Goddess called Durga.
That outfit was one of my favorites,
again, I loved to mix
and match all the things,
it's quite androgynous,
street style,
Chanel, mix it all together in a cauldron,
what do you get? That.
Wa-bam!
Ah, Chanel Met Ball,
sparkly, bald,
so I had to shave my hair for my role in Life in a Year,
which I was adamant about doing,
that was done by my wonderful makeup artist, Romy.
It was such a cool thing because again,
having your head painted
and looking amazing,
I mean it was very,
very cool.
During that part of that I did
and during that time I was quite self-conscious
about my femininity
and what hair actually meant to me,
and how much it really affected
how I felt like a woman or not,
and I think realizing how beautiful you can be,
and how for me personally,
I didn't realize how much hair meant
that I could hide behind it
and feel that way,
so that was a really big moment for me to see that
and be like,
"Oh my God,
I don't need,
I don't need eyebrows,
I don't need hair to feel gorgeous,
to feel feminine,
to feel masculine,
to feel good."
I just needed to feel that within myself.
[relaxing music]
This is one of my favorite looks actually,
wow, this is Iris van Herpen,
Valerian Premiere in LA,
that was major,
that dress was so,
so cool,
I mean the fact that you can't see anything like my nipples,
or my vagina,
is amazing.
The royal wedding,
a royal wedding,
that was Eugenie's wedding,
that was one of the funnest,
I don't know,
the funnest weddings I've been to in a while,
but that was the first time where I was like,
"You know what?
I could wear a suit, right?"
And it was a morning suit,
I had a tailcoat.
Also, so much more comfortable,
so much more easy,
although I still was wearing heels,
I loved that look,
the cummerbund man,
I got a little toothpick in,
really look whose in that moment,
love that.
Next one.
Chanel, that was the last Chanel show I ever did,
that was an amazing one,
it was really beautiful,
really whimsical.
You know, being able to kinda go back
and do a collection with Karl Lagerfeld,
really thinking about what he taught me
and I was thinking,
"God, what would Karl do?"
He would always take things that he knew best of himself,
and so for me it was again,
I don't even like saying genderless
because I think all clothes,
why do they have gender?
Why, why does this have to be for a group of people?
This have to be for another group of people?
And to be able to bring sustainability into that,
it just kinda meant something different for me
and again,
the collection's subtle,
they're not like huge,
crazy things that you would see in,
they're all pieces of clothing that I want
people to have for a very long time
and I want anyone who wears it,
is the clothes not to wear them,
for them to wear the clothes,
see how they wear it differently
and to see what they do with it,
so I kinda want it to be people's collection,
not ours I suppose.
This is the Met Ball,
this is, is it queer?
What was the year?
Camp!
- [Offscreen Speaker] Camp, yeah.
- It should've been queer, okay?
I think this was my favorite year
because that cane was super-glued in the car
on the way there,
which is hysterical.
There was so many different options
of what we were gonna do
and at the end of it we were just like,
"Let's do it all."
Because it's Camp, why not?
That headpiece, halfway through it had to come off my head
because that was hard,
the chattering teeth were funny
because you could just wind them up
and I was walking around chattering away.
The next look.
That was the Carnival Row Press Night in London?
I'm wearing Balmain,
Olivier's one of my closest friends,
but he's also a wonderful,
amazing designer,
I love Balmain because it makes me feel
just like so strong
and so sexy,
but still has that kind of masculine edge to it.
In Carnival Row I played Vignette Stonemoss
and I am a fairy,
it's kinda set in this Neo-Victorian fantasy world,
beautiful show,
it's about love,
it's crime,
it's mystery fantasy,
all of the things.
[indistinct]
Only Murders in the Building,
that is Alice Banks,
that is a character I'm playing
on Only Murders in the Building,
I've got a very wry,
naughty, cheeky smile on,
I guess I'm about to approach Mabel,
played by Selena Gomez,
I am funnily enough,
that necklace that I'm wearing is a nipple clamp,
that's kind of like a little Easter egg,
no one knows that it was a nipple clamp,
I did, which I thought was funny,
so yeah.
I'm playing an artist,
so I again have my like,
had stuff in my pockets,
I'm wearing a t-shirt,
I had a lot to say
and wanted to do a lot when I was,
when we were looking at the costumes,
even though the costume department are amazing.
I used a lot of my own clothes, basically.
Oh, I guess that's it.
Thank you for joining us today,
I'm going to go
and take my clothes off,
and lie in a bucket of ice,
lots of love, Cara.
[book slamming closed]
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