Model Moment: Cara Delevingne

Recently named Model of The Year and landing her first Vogue cover it’s safe to say that Cara Delevingne is serious hot property right now and this season at London Fashion Week, A/W 13 has certainly been ‘Cara’d’.

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 Opening Topshop Unique and closing Mulberry and fitting in Burberry, Sister by Sibling, Issa London, Rhianna for River Island and Matthew Williamson to name a few.  Cara is certainly pounding the catwalk with ferocity and with one day left of LFW she’ll be hot footing it over to Milan this week then on to Paris.

We ❤ you Cara!

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Backstage Beauty

It happens just twice a year, where the beauty pack fresh off the plane from New York Fashion Week pound the pavements of their native London in search of new season trends.

But backstage is not where the glamour is.  For a start it’s seriously hot, packed with photographers, editors, moody assistants clad in black all jostling to listen to the make-up artist or session stylist heading the show.  For me, alongside my Beauty Editor colleagues I am there to gather information on the look, inspirations and which latest model and products are being used.

Nothing is more exciting than a gorgeous look that we can translate for our readers.  Don’t get me wrong, something a bit out there and wacky is appreciated and each season the same culprits do like to make a serious statement, *cough* Vivienne Westwood.  But in reality it’s those wearable looks that make us instantly try to replicate at home that night.

The Big Cheese

Saying that, Topshop’s Unique show today had me re-think my blue shadow phobia.  Super cool make-up artist Hannah Murray along with L’Oreal Professional cutie Antony Turner, created a Kate Moss esque cool Brit Rock Girl with attitude, trust me you will want to emulate her.

Hair was given lots of volume with a weightless finish.  ‘It’s cloud hair which I back-brushed at the crown to create a 70s slept in beehive,’ said Turner.  Hair was complimented a tough Brit Pop Eye created by Hannah Murray, which had been layered on top of a metallic sheer wash of colour and built up by a punchy blue all over and inside the socket.  Hannah did let slip that the original look had a red lip but after the models were dressed it looked a touch too hard.

The Blue Hue

And the finished look sported by model du jour Cara D….

Cara Delevingne for Topshop Unique