Cara Delevingne

Model, Activist, Advocate, Actress and Now Author. Cara Delevingne May Have the World at Her Feet, but She’s Only Just Getting Started

- Jennifer Niven

An hour before I leave to meet Cara Delevingne, there’s a change of plan. A car will still pick me up and drive me to her photoshoot, but instead of conducting the interview on set, Delevingne and I will hop into another car and talk on the way to her next appointment. Then I will be dropped at some as-yet-unknown location, at which point a third car will appear and take me home. It’s all very Hollywood. I’ve lived in LA for 20 years, and this is the kind of thing that can happen when working with celebrities. By the time the first driver and I arrive in the dusty, mountainous suburb of Shadow Hills, I’m equating it to the Aussie outback. We sail past a nondescript front gate, then begin our ascent up narrow roads that snake up to where the views and the house – a white Moorish castle – are breathtaking; where the sky seems bluer against all that white.

I’m told that Delevingne is inside Furst Castle – as it’s known – still shooting the ELLE cover-story photos, and so I sit outside in the sun and wait for her. I’m a bestselling author of books for young adults, including Holding Up The Universe and