CARA

A conversation with Cara Delevingne is a bit like going down a rabbit hole. You start off politely talking about make-up – the star, who turns 27 on August 12, is the new face of Dior Addict Stellar Shine lipstick – and within moments you’ve zigzagged into feminism, masturbation, depression and her love of Bear Grylls. Curiouser and curiouser.

For a globally famous supermodel – after Kendall Jenner, she was one of the highest paid in the world last year, raking in about $14 million – she’s pleasingly un-supermodelly. Sitting on a sofa in the sumptuous penthouse suite of a Parisian hotel, we are surrounded by colourful macarons, vases of plump pink peonies and chic silver bullets of Dior lipsticks. The setting is très French, but Delevingne is exceedingly English. “Do you mind if I take my shoes off?” she asks in plummy tones. By all means, I say, relax. “Take it easssssssy!” she trills, bursting into song, slipping off her pointy black flats and curling her long legs beneath her. She’s eccentric, effusive and