Consider this Cara Delevingne’s “fall to earth” moment. Cara has been The It Girl or The It Model for more than a year. Y’all know I don’t really understand why – her smirk irritates me and I think she looks like Angry Baby most of the time. But everybody in London loves her, as do all of the fashion people. She’s dated Michelle Rodriguez and Leonardo DiCaprio allegedly wanted to get into her drawers. She gets invited to all the cool parties and she flirts with ginger princes. She’s only 21 years old.
So, how exactly did she fall to earth? She did an interview with Vogue Mag and she fell asleep. Twice. And when Vogue writer Plum Sykes wrote about it, Cara freaked out. First, the Vogue piece (you can read the piece here). Sykes barely got to interview her because Cara overslept and was 30 minutes late for the meeting, then as soon as she got to the spa, she fell asleep on the massage table and didn’t wake up for hours. So, instead of interviewing Cara properly, Sykes just had to write about how Cara parties too much and sleeps through her commitments. To her credit, Sykes turns it into a very readable piece with only a hint of British shade – she refers to Cara as “careless” a few times, then quotes people who have worked with Cara who say that she basically sleeps everywhere and anywhere. Sykes also discovers that it’s not just a case of Cara being “overworked” – the night before the interview, Cara was partying with Lily Allen until 5 am. Because of course.
In the end, Cara looked somewhat unprofessional and overworked, and like she parties too much. Is that the worst thing in the world? Not really. But Cara went on a Twitter rant about the Vogue story, writing:
Why do people in the industry lie so much???? They would rather see you fail than succeed. What happened to supporting each other
It’s even worse when your trying to fight people that have all the power because then you are powerless
All I can say is that I work extremely hard and ‘sleeping’ is proof that sometimes I work too hard. I apologise for being so ambitious
This just shows that the fashion industry is not the most understanding or compassionate of industries
That only applies to the people that sit around not really caring and never really bothering to get to know you or what it’s really like
What happened to supporting each other?
She also posted part of the rant on her Instagram too, for good measure. The thing is, compared to how badly Cara could have been slammed by Vogue for her unprofessionalism, I think Sykes was relatively fair and she turned in a truthful story while still leaving some room for Cara to defend herself. I have no idea why Cara freaked out to this degree – perhaps The It Girl has never been called out on her bullsh-t. Perhaps she’s one of those special snowflakes who doesn’t know how to handle it when people aren’t covering up her messes. Frankly, it’s surprising to me that Plum Sykes didn’t even mention the paparazzi photos of Cara with cocaine.
Photos courtesy of Vogue, WENN.
I’ve never liked her. She looks mean, and rather petulant.
Yes I agree! And I don’t find her very pretty either. No clue as to why she’s such a big thing right now
But I don’t think most high end models are traditional beauties. The catalog swimwear/underwear models fall under that category.
Models like Cara I would call striking. I guess. Some people tick all the boxes and to me the result is boring. Too Ken or Barbie. Gimmie “flaws”. That’s what makes a person attractive to me.
@snazzy
I like her and think she’s a good model but I’m not deluding myself that she is where she is because of her “talent”.
Her godfather is Nicholas Coleridge – president of Vogue’s publishing house Condé Nast International. Her godmother is Joan Collins. Her sister’s BFF is Sienna Miller and her parents are rich as fcuk…myster solved.
Her actual modeling photos are great. She has a unique look. It is a bit angry bird but its still a striking look. It’s her regular real-life photos, and all those idiotic faces she pulls, that are so cringe-inducing.
@qwerty: wow! I didn’t know she was so connected … that explains that! Talk about an incestuous world …
Angry bird LMFAO! @claire you nailed it. Still laughing. She looks like the yellow one.
I find her incredibly beautiful in profi pictures, not so much in real life.
Are we really surprised that she’s spoiled?
@snazzy
Her sister is also tight with the Rolling Stones’ kids. She’s pretty much tight with everyone in London lol.
Here’s an article form before Cara became famous that tells more about their connections
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG8385208/Model-siblings-Poppy-and-Cara-Delevigne.html
Oops, I forgot the most important part. The founder of Storm Model Management, Sarah Doukas is a family friend. I think I heard/read somewhere that her daughter is Cara’s childhood BFF.
@Pomegranate: HA! I was actually quoting Kaiser but I just realized she said Angry Baby, not Angry Bird! LOL! Oh, well…both fit her! 😉
@qwerty – wowwwww! You learn something new every day 😀 thanks!
PS just noticed the giant feet in those boots! Now I can’t stop looking at them!
Agreed
Now, I don’t know much about her, but from her rant she seems really childish.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna get ambitious for two hours *yawns*, *opens up sheets and fluffs pillows*
Damn, I want to get ambitious too but my boss won’t tolerate that much ambition. Ugh, stupid job.
she has 1 expression and it’s wishing you out to the cornfield
lol
Damn Lisa! That comment gave me chills. I think you nailed it girl!! 🙂
LOL, Lisa!! Ugh, I took one look at her, and just thought “hideous”. Now I know why. She is oneof those people whose will and wishes have never been questioned. And now, someone not nicey nicey wrote about her with less than glowing adoration, and she is pissed. Reminds me of my sister’s cat Lola, who is pure-breed Himayalan and never lets you forget it. Except Lola is hot.
Crying with laughter! Brilliant!
Two words. Veruca Salt.
That is all.
Her appeal is beyond me, also. Sky Arts even let her ACT. With the blessed SYLVIA SYMS, to add insult to injury. Bah.
I know, Sixer! She was so wooden – no empathy at all.
Something about her face really reminds me of a young Janet Leigh – maybe the eyes? IDK.
As far as her antics – maybe you sleep through an interview for other publications – but sleeping while at – not sleeping at home and missing, but actually falling asleep at – your Vogue interview? No. This is not good. Plum Sykes is right to write about it. Cara has no one to blame but herself here.
Yeah, this is not about “the fashion industry not supporting her.” This is about professionalism, plain and simple. She should be apologizing to Sykes, not trashing her. Girl seems to have a lot of growing up to do.
Yes, I agree. She fell asleep during an interview because she stayed out too late. Then she says “what ever happened to supporting each other.” As if Sykes should have lied to protect her unprofessional behavior. Grow up.
ETA: Esmom, we were typing at the same time. Great minds and all that. Lol
Isn’t that what feminism is? Supporting each other? Because if you don’t there is “a special place in hell” for you?
If the journo is a feminist she should be ashamed of her anti feminist behaviour and beg forgivness from this hard working girl!!!
*goes and takes shower to wash the ignorant off.
🙂
She was late – a fact. She fell asleep during the interview – also a fact. I’d include it if I was writing a profile.
I don’t get how they let her sleep through the interview. One of her assistants could have waken her up. Waiting for her to wake up for hours doesn’t seem reasonable at all.
Yeah, I’m not quite sure what she expected. What was the interviewer supposed to write about if there was no interview?
Definitely!!! And the article wasn’t even degrading toward Cara. I feel like Plum handled it with grace and was actually complimentary of her…
Cara shot herself in the foot by going off on twitter. It showed how young and immature she still is.
today models should copy Kate Moss not only for the coke (a model doing coke, how new) but also for her golden rule: never do interviews.
The fashion people love that their models have bodies of 8 year old boys … And the maturity and intelligence to match
The fashion world will give her a pass so long as she’s making money for them.
Her acting career might not go the same way if she leaves crews sitting waiting while she takes naps, she’s not a big enough name in that world to get away with that.
This interview could have gone a lot worse so she needs to sit down.
She fell asleep on a massage table? Well, it’s not like they were on a rollercoaster.
But if you a model, doing an interview for vogue and you were tired why would you get on a massage table?!
But tellingly her people (I’m guessing she has people at a big interview) didn’t wake her up. Why wouldn’t you wake her up, so she could laugh it off and do the interview properly?
I think that shows a lot about her character- it sounds like she would have been super pissed if she had been woken up.
She slept for hours.
Hours. Not a nap during a massage.
It’s just so weird that no one woke her up. I mean, not even the massage therapist? What if they had another client after her and needed to use the table?
Littlestar
I’ve done this. By this I mean fallen asleep at a spa on the table.
If this spa is anything like that spa it’s big and pricey. The longer you stay the more you’re charged. They let me sleep and it turned into an expensive nap for me. There are loads of other private rooms that can be used and many appointments are scattered to avoid overlap.
It was such a fantastic nap though! I felt rested and relaxed for days.
My guess is she wasn’t sleeping but nodding off, if you catch my drift.
If that was a packet of coke in the DM pic, wouldn’t it have held more? Isn’t the amount of powder more indicative of heroin?
Not necessarily, it could just be what is left. It’s pretty white and so I think it probably is coke. But no matter she could be doing heroin to come down off the coke. Also she might be on prescription pills that might make her nod. In my experience with addicts of uppers, they do a bunch to stay up and party then something to comedown throughout the day. I suspect she was on some sort of opiate.
My guess is pills.
No. It can be a small bag with some gritty texture. your break and crush that grit and it becomes more. If that makes sense. This isn’t like the movies scarface of blow where people have sandwich baggies or bowls of the stuff. Maybe just enough to get her from point a to point b.
And in the film Pulp Fiction, heroin is usually kept in balloons so it won’t be mistaken for cocaine. Hence why Uma Thurman snorted it, she thought it was cocaine.
Felice, that is usually just for transport, usually you don’t buy it in balloons but in baggies like she has or small foil packets. Heroin can be snorted, smoked or shot and is usually an off white or pale yellow, where coke is a bright white, so in bad light they may look the same.
Bingo. And just because someone is pictured doing one drug (coke) doesn’t mean don’t do others. IMO it makes it more likely.
Exactly, I dated an addict, his drug of choice was uppers, but he would take downers to sleep or come down. When he slept it was like the dead and if you woke him up he was an absolute terror. Glad I got out of that one.
Exactly what I was thinking… Especially if she is “known to fall asleep anywhere .” My feeling is that’s what freaked her out about it being documented in a vogue article.
And she even sorta went the Taylor swift route by whining whining bout “what happened to supporting each other???”. Yeah that does not mean they cover for you when you are at fault. Grow up. She might have been able to play it off with an apology for the unprofessional side of it, and even a self depreciating laugh; but no, she does the spoiled brat routine. Hope her management let’s her have it.
She’s been treated as a snowflake for so long she’s likely shocked by someone not fulling sucking up. Back to reality for her. It’ll be rough when the next it model replaces her and those drugs start aging her. Until then no one will do anything. The team she has and enablers/friends will shelter her and nurse her ego.
Ugh.
I think she’s one of the few models with a personality. Who cares that she slept through an interview.. If she did.
I like her too. She always seems very nice to her fans as well.
She gets paid a lot of money for her work, and part of that work is publicity, and part of publicity is doing interviews, and part of doing interviews is staying awake. She behaved in an inexcusable, immature and unprofessional manner, and she should own up to it instead of whining about it.
+1
Goodnames the bar has been officially lowered for interviews: consciousness.
Mila Kunis will be happy to hear.
I’m with you GoodNames
This is her job. Not to simply give great photos, but to keep the image up with interviews and interactions.
I have little doubt she fell asleep both times. Especially if Allen is involved. Staying up all night on stimulants will crash a body hard.
I agree. She is a model and this is Vogue. It is completely unprofessional for her to have acted that way. You’d think that she would have realized the error and tried to correct it long before it went to print, too.
She has a unique, striking look. Traditionally pretty supermodels are generic and boring. I would be able to pick Cara apart in a fashion show. And that is saying something because most modals look same to me.
But this is a weird situation. Why would they wait for her to wake up rather than just waking her up? I don’t get it.
Think “passed out”.
If I took an hours long nap instead of fulfilling my professional obligations (for which I’m not nearly as well paid) I can guarantee it wouldn’t be laughed off with a rather funny magazine piece because that’s how reality works: someone usually cares. She got off lightly and STILL proceeded to throw an online tantrum. No class and completely undeserving.
I can’t imagine that whatever über-restrictive diet VS has her on would be good for her energy levels either.
I admit, that was my first thought–the combination of partying and not eating will leave you exhausted.
True.
Cara is more a model for hire. She doesn’t have an exclusive contrac with VS which is what makes a model a VS model.
In fact Cara doesn’t really hold contracts very long and no one really wants to sign her for an extended period of time. She might be the IT model for the time, but everyone seems smart eough to know she’s unreliable and only use her in small doses.
I have no idea y she ended up on the VS catwalk , her look doesn’t appeal to the average woman. The VS models of recent years have become more and more fashion week skinny. I wonder if any1’s willing to toss her on a SAA flight to Richard’s Bay , South Africa… Ma must feed her…
Nobuhle
Barely any of the VS models appeal to the average woman. They haven’t for long over a decade.
Snotty little thing isn’t she. These girls just don’t get it their shelf-life in modeling is 2 to 4? years unless ur Kate Moss or Naomi Campbell she needs to be a professional and do her job.
I think she’s more striking then traditionally pretty. I think being late is unprofessional but I’m not going to shade her for falling asleep during a massage.
I shade people that don’t fall asleep during a massage. Who talks during a massage? I just need to be nudged when you need me to turn over, and then it’s lights out again.
My massages are hard work because my muscles like to bunch up like nobody’s business. I couldn’t imagine falling asleep during that torture lol. At least it feels good afterwards.
Have another look at the article. It said she didn’t wake up for hours.
I never had a professional massage, but I’m going to assume normal people don’t sleep that long.
Well, once you’re asleep, you’re asleep. Hours can feel like minutes. Typically when it’s over, someone wakes you up. That’s how it works.
I wouldn’t shade her, either but she was supposed to be giving an interview. How would you feel if you were the journalist, and you book this time out of your day, go to meet this girl at the place of her choosing, and she has stayed out until five the night before and sleeps through the interview, like your time was nothing, and no one matters but her?
Anna Wintour approves every piece so… Cara was probably taken aback that Plum, of all people (a fellow toff) would “betray” her.
Right? Plum Sykes is one of the last people who would do that to a fellow posh fashion girl.
I don’t understand this story. Yes, showing up late and then falling asleep is unprofessional, especially if it’s caused by staying out too late partying. But then she slept for five hours? Why the hell didn’t an assistant or publicist wake her?
As others have pointed out, falling asleep during a massage isn’t exactly unheard of, even if you’re well rested. But then everyone just sat around and watched her sleep instead of poking her until she woke up? That’s the weirdest part of this to me.
Right?! Where was any of her handlers? And why would you pick a spa for an interview place? Who could give a decent interview while getting a massage? I don’t like how she handled the aftermath but I do like her. She’s very striking in her photos and she’s someone I wouldn’t mind partying with once in my life.
me too! did they just sit there for several hours? or went about their business and came back in periodically to check on her, like she’s a sleeping baby? why didn’t anyone wake her up? so weird.
I think the Daily Mail picture says it all. Cokehead
Don’t get what all the fuss is about her.
So over-rated. Never understood her hype. Wasn’t she papped with coke packets falling out of her purse once?
I feel as if her family name and connections bought her a “career”. Her looks are not exceptional to me in the way the top models of the 90’s were. I know, different “times” but her looks are not capitivating to me. And she always looks as if she smells and needs a good soak in a bath.
I used to think she wasn’t beautiful and also kind of cheap looking but she’s really grown on me. She has a very distinctive look and she can look gorgeous and expensive (not always). She has these small teeth and in some photos she looks toothless.
I agree with you. She is a good model and suits the high end fashion ‘theatrical’ type of photoshoots very well. She can look expensive and she ‘communes’ with the concept and product, imo. But yea, supermodel of the 90’s she ain’t. But she is there not to show her beauty but to help elevate or sell a product or concept. And that she does well.
cara and karlie are the ugliest models
Lmao. Angry baby.
Is it really that hard to use the correct form “you’re?” You’re= you are. Your = possession. You’d think for someone from such a rich background could afford a teacher that could show them the correct usage.
Anyways, I agree with what most said, I don’t understand her appeal. But, I’ve never understood Sienna Miller’s appeal either. Each to their own, I suppose.
The comparison to the angry baby from the Simpsons made me giggle. And now I cannot unsee it.
I’ve been a reporter for nearly 20 years, and I can’t even begin to tell you the number of times someone has agreed to an interview and then “forgot” about it, didn’t show up, postponed indefinitely, was unprepared (even after I complied with their request to submit my questions before the interview) or was downright rude. My stance is, if you don’t want to do the interview on any level or can’t manage your time as an adult and a professional, don’t agree to the interview. To be passive-aggressive with my time after I have arranged my day (writing time, travel, childcare, etc.) to speak with you is beyond excuse. A reporter’s time – and work – is no less valuable than a model’s. Guess what Cara? If you are dismissive of journalists’ time, they might just write about it, much in the way waiters may spit in your food if you do not treat them with respect. Welcome to the world of adult consequences.
Exactly! And you can’t complain about the industry being “unsupportive” when you got where you are through connections… whereas the writer actually had to work hard to get where s/he is at Vogue. It pisses me off when famous actors/models complain about the job, when all the people who are around and enabling them have probably worked twice as hard to get where they are. Especially in Cara’s case. Ugh.
Yes, and Plum is dedicated to what she does. I have no doubt that she came to the interview fully prepared and ready to work. Ugh indeed.
Co-signed. I spent a few years as an entertainment reporter and swore I’d never do it again. Actors and models are mostly banal.
Mazzie, what a coincidence, I was an entertainment writer for a few years, and I remember a publicist scheduled an interview with an actress on Thanksgiving. Being new and wanting to be a “team player,” I agreed. Thanksgiving comes, I’m in the office, alone (and not with my family for the holiday), I call and – you guessed it – no answer. Finally, I call the publicist’s voicemail (no answer, she’s enjoying her Thanksgiving!) and was polite but inside I was ticked. Monday morning at 8 a.m. I received a mortified call from the publicist (she forgot!). She did send me a very nice watch that week in the mail though. I agree though, interviewing people in the entertainment industry is an exercise in patience.
Well said, Dirtnap.
“if you don’t want to do the interview on any level or can’t manage your time as an adult and a professional, don’t agree to the interview. ”
I agree 100%. Adults should be expected to fulfill the responsibilities they accept.
I don’t understand the appeal of Karlie Kloss. She’s so blah looking. She’s the worst choice for a Victoria’s Secret model because she has zero sex appeal.
Thank you! I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees this. I actually can’t watch her go down the runway at VS because she makes me cringe so hard. Not a fan of Cara for VS either… but I guess for PINK she’s fun and “spunky” enough…
AGREE!
Never once have I equated her with hard work. Hard partying absolutely!
*you’re
Eyebrows. All I see is eyebrows. Aside this, a regular pretty blonde girl.
Her and Suki Waterhouse inspire such violent hatred in me! I want them to go away now!!!!
well, I think she’s excellent as a model-in terms of telling a story, having undertones of sexual energy, etc. Reminds me of Kate Moss in that sense. I can see why the fashion world loves her. I didn’t get her thing either, until I saw a couple of ads featuring her. She does the theatrics of high end modeling quite well. I agree with others that she seems mean and isn’t particularly strikingly beautiful. I think the camera loves her and she carries both sexual vibe and blend into the background/artsy vibes into her photoshoots. She’s believable in the ads. She is able to enhance the ‘mood’ of the photos.
Wonder how she’ll maintain her skinny frame without using drugs. She’ll gain for sure if she ever stops; if she doesn’t, her face will show the effects partying in a few years.
A massage at a spa during an interview? Probably would have been a better idea to have a huge cup of coffee. I fight to stay awake during a massage – relax those knots in my back and I am out – combine that with already being tired (no matter what the reason) and it is a recipe for disaster.
Her and Taylor Swift’s comments about Tina Fey and Amy Poehler miss the point completely about ‘supporting one another’. Supporting is not enabling.
“I apologize for being so ambitious”
How about “I apologize for being so disrespectful”?
She’s well connected but she wouldn’t have lasted that long in high fashion without the body and unique looks. I’m not an expert on models but she’s way better than Kendall Jenner or other try-hard high fashion models.
Talk about sense of humour failure Cara. Not very British!!!
Ha, I love the idea that she thought she had a point to prove about the fashion industry not being compassionate or understanding.
She’s shown me. ‘Cos I always thought the fashion industry was TOTALLY about being kind to everyone, no matter who they are……..