Here’s an assortment of photos of Cara Delevingne at Glastonbury and Hyde Park over the weekend. She was doing the music festival circuit and she seems to be basically wearing the same outfit at both events. These photos are a good example of why I’ve never really understood Cara’s model status –she totally blends into the crowd. She looks like every other girl. Even when Kate Moss looks like a hot mess, she’s still watchable, she’s still Kate Moss, she still has that It Factor. Cara just… isn’t It.
But I’m probably going to have to stop bitching about Cara’s modeling career soon, because she’s really going after an acting career, often to the detriment of her modeling career (she’s barely walked two runways in six months!). Cara was cast as Enchantress in Suicide Squad, and she chatted about the film and superheroines with Empire. Some highlights:
“There are only three girls in [Suicide Squad] but in my opinion they have the best roles. Generally though, superhero movies are totally sexist. Female superheroes are normally naked or in bikinis. No-one would be able to fight like that. Wonder Woman, how the hell does she fight? She would be dead in a minute.”
Delevingne recently insisted that she has no plans to give up modeling despite her blossoming acting career. Delevingne added that her ideal superhero power would not be controlling minds as Enchantress does, but shape-shifting like Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique from X-Men.
“I’d like to be a tree if I wanted to, or a paper clip,” she said.
Wait, can Mystique do inanimate objects? Can she turn into a paper clip? I thought she could only do people. As for superhero movies and whether they’re “sexist” – of course they are. The majority of superhero films are sexist full-stop. Most women in superhero movies have terrible, sexist costumes, full-stop. There should be more representation of women in superhero movies, full-stop. Is Cara Delevingne to the one to take up this cause? Eh. Doesn’t Enchantress basically wear skin-tight leather pants and a bustier?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
Well looking at all the male superheroes aren’t they superbuff and walking around with no shirt for no reason at all?
And Wonder Woman is the daughter of zeus, so I assume her she is super strong, so i’m pretty sure it will easy for her to take a few bullets. It’s not like she’s just some woman.
I honestly do not understand how Angry Baby is a “thing” (model/actress etc.). I really think if it wasn’t for family connections and an “in” with her sister, she’d not have gotten anywhere.
Angry baby from the Simpsons? Yep, I see it.
No idea why people are trying to make her happen as an actress. Just stop.
I think she’s stunning in photographs. Not so much in motion.
She actually dressed for comfort at Glastonbury and not like a dumbass posing for paparazzi.
I thought she was done with modelling because she said it was such a bad industry where people were telling her to lose weight etc.
That is the best way to dress for a music festival. I’m going to a few punk concerts this summer and I’m not sure what to wear. I’m middle aged and don’t want to look creepy. I have green Docs like hers…..is that still “in”? I need fashion advice!
Sure, Doc Martens are one of the 90s fashion trends that are definitely back.
Thanks Melly! I’m being overly neurotic, lol!
It’s just refreshing that she isn’t dressed like a giant asshole hippy baby.
Female superheroes are normally naked or in bikinis.
I can’t recall seeing any nudity or bikinis on Black Widow in any of the Marvel films, or even high heels with the catsuit, for the most part the women in that universe seem pretty normally dressed for their circumstances (also including Jane Foster/Pepper Potts/Peggy Carter in that). And the men are the ones who get introduced to us ass first (see: Captain America in the Avengers) or who get their shirts off all the time.
But we could do with more female superheroes in general. And I thought this child was done with fashion, or does she just want her safety net to fall back on in case the acting career doesn’t work out? Because her earlier interviews were a massive bite out of the hand that feeds her.
I don’t care if the female hero’s fighting clothes are tight or a little revealing/sexy if it’s a franchise where the male heroes are walking around shirtless, in leotards, or in skintight clothing that grips their well-defined bodies. (I love that sort of thing!) What annoys me is when the male good guys’ fighting gear isn’t revealing at all, and they get to be multi-dimensional characters, but the woman is reduced to either useless damsel in distress OR she’s a fighter but she’s in armor that’s basically a bikini/ skimpy bondage wear with a tiny waist and huge, bouncing boobs and parts that the author is constantly drawing attention to, and she’s a one dimensional character- she’s nothing but the sexy fighter. I understand the whole concept of fan service and the idea of making characters attractive to whoever the target gender is in order to draw more fans though. I’m talking about in movies, cartoons, comics, and sometimes fan-created original characters. I’m not opposed to all fan service or sexy costumes, but it’s like “Don’t get so impractical and lazy with it.” Create well-developed, multi-dimensional female characters who don’t always have to be fan service, please. Or if you’re going to go that route, equalize it a little more so it’s not characters of one sex who are like that.
Cara Delevigne looks slightly like Lindsay Lohan to me. Just not the cracked-out, drunk, unhealthy Lindsay Lohan we always see in the tabloids (not that Cara doesn’t drink or do drugs too.)
Are you talking about Movies or Comics? I can’t recall any heroine wearing bikini armor in recent superhero movies. As for comics,I suppose you don’t read comics for years, right?
Maybe she hasn’t noticed how Margot Robbie has been dressed for this film? Because she’s wearing a bathing suit.
Right? The Harley Quinn outfit Robbie is wearing is a total cosplay wet dream.
…..and modeling is not?
I agree I do not understand her model status…I think it’s nepotism pure and simple. She really does just look like an average girl who left her eyebrows natural…a dime a dozen. Someone above mentioned that “she looks glorious in magazine photos though”…um yeah. We would all look ‘amazing’ in magazine photos which are photoshopped to within an inch of their life!