New York Fashion Week gave us plenty of trends to think about (and shop), both on the runway and on the streets. But the outfit inspiration doesn’t have to end there: Over the past few years, the fashion industry has moved on to London, where they take in new collections from some of the most renowned British designers and, of course, show off their great style. See what all your favorite fashion people have been wearing at London Fashion Week, and make note of all the street-style looks you’ll want to copy this season.
Cara Delevingne is officially a triple threat. She continues to kill it on every runway imaginable (see: Paris this season, where Ashley Benson was in the front row to watch). She’s set to star in the upcoming Amazon Prime video series Carnival Row, opposite Orlando Bloom next year. And as the face of Burberry’s new fragrance, Her, which drops today, Delevingne also proves to have a decent set of pipes. She sings a little ditty for the scent’s TV campaign (listen for yourself down below). Talk about talent.
We caught up with the 26-year-old stunner in her hometown of London to chat about her self-love beauty secrets and the tricks that keep her happy and glowing—on the small screen, red carpet, and everywhere in between.
Glamour: What’s your beauty philosophy?
Cara Delevingne: Not to label yourself or care about what other people think. It’s about being confident in who you are, what you wear, and what you look like. That’s easier said than done, but I think it’s something we should live by. And we need to praise each other. By lifting others up, we lift ourselves up.
Glamour: Is there anything that gives you a fast pick-me-up?
CD: When I’ve had a really long day, a fragrance can lift my spirits. Burberry Her reminds me of a happy person, carefree and living life to the fullest. And I always carry a mascara. I like having those really spiky Twiggy lashes that frame your eyes. When you’re tired, people don’t see that, they’re looking at your eyelashes.
Glamour: Any other products you love?
CD: Dior skin care has really made a difference in how tired my skin looks. I’m only 26, but I travel a lot and deal with eye bags. It keeps my skin looking fresh.
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Cara Delevingne for Burberry Her
Glamour: You do a lot of advocacy work for young women. How would you like to see the definitions of beauty and sexuality change?
CD: Everyone’s idea of themselves, sexuality, femininity, and what it is to be human is different. The more we’re honest with each other, the more we can grow. Through acceptance and communication, we can better understand one another.
Glamour: What is your healthiest habit?
CD: I meditate, and I do yoga as much as I can. I try to do it twice a day, but sometimes I prefer to be sleeping.
Glamour: What’s your least healthy habit?
CD: Being hard on myself. Even if I do something I should be proud of, I automatically disregard it. I get scared about what other people think, and that’s bad. It’s something I’m working to change.
Glamour: How so?
CD: Realizing that the mistakes you make don’t define who you are, and that it’s OK to be angry, to be upset, to not be happy all the time. It’s OK to not smile if you don’t want to smile. It’s about learning to accept yourself.
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I feel it’s imperative you all know what Lady Gaga is wearing to attend the London premiere of A Star Is Born tonight.
The pop singer-slash-actress-slash-meat dress connoisseur wore an Alexander McQueen gown—not just any gown, but a ruffled, gilded one from the brand’s Fall 2013 collection that’s giving off major Shakespearean vibes. A midsummer-but-really-early-fall night’s dream, indeed! We know Mother Monster loves a theme: She channeled a fifties Italian actress at the Venice Film Festival earlier this summer, wore a patriotic get-up to sing the national anthem in 2016, and now looks like the chicest extra in a U.K. Shakespearean production ever. And look at how she’s posing, almost as if she’s saying, “Look at my ruffles! I’m a Thespian!” (And she is! She’s a favorite to win Best Actress on GoldDerby.com!)
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Shakespeare Gaga might be the best Gaga ever. (Yes, even better than phone-on-her-head Gaga or Beyoncé Gaga or Muppets Gaga. You see, Shakespeare Gaga isn’t here to play games—she’s here to pose, talk about how much Bradley Cooper can sing, and snag all your Oscar votes. Behold…
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You know William Shakespeare would’ve given her all the roles.
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Me? Why, yes, I did almost release a song called “Onion Girl!” How nice of you to remember!
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The icons room is this way, right?
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What a time to be alive, people! At this rate, you better believe she’ll wear a sleek gold dress at the 2019 Oscars—ya know, to look like the literal statue.
It was just last week that Rihanna‘s Savage x Fenty show made headlines for including pregnant women in lingerie at its presentation. And then again for what happened immediately backstage, when model Slick Woods went into labor and had to be taken straight from the show to the hospital. Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, another new mom and model is making waves on the internet.
The model, Valeria Garcia, was in the Marta Jakubowski Spring 2019 show after giving birth to her second child in June. Her outfit featured an open trouser suit with what appeared to be a black-and-white bra—or at least that’s what it seemed like at first.
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See those white bra-insert-y objects? That’s the Elvie breast pump, which is being billed as the first-ever wearable device. It’s cleverly designed to sit under bra cups, and moms can use an app to control milk flow “silently and discreetly,” no matter where they might be (even at, say, a Fashion Week runway show). It’s definitely an advancement when it comes to breast pumps, as lots of new moms still deal with clunky, noisy pumping equipment.
But she’s not the first model to use her runway platform to break down the stigma around breastfeeding in public. Sports Illustrated model Mara Martin walked at the brand’s swimwear show during Miami Swim Week this year while breastfeeding her five-month-old baby.
“I can’t believe I am waking up to headlines with me and my daughter in them for doing something I do every day,” she posted on Instagram after the event. “It is truly so humbling and unreal to say the least. I’m so grateful to be able to share this message and hopefully normalize breastfeeding and also show others that women CAN DO IT ALL!”
There’s no word yet on when or for how much the Elvie will be on sale. But there is a wait list, and suffice to say, with this kind of publicity, it’s likely to get some very interested customers fast.
The world has watched Meghan Markle very closely since she and Prince Harry got together; she can hardly sneeze (or even trip) without making headlines. But by some sort of sorcery, her mom, Doria Ragland, recently made a secret trip to London to visit her daughter, and literally no one noticed.
In a new interview with Good Morning America, royal expert Omid Scobie revealed that Ragland spent some time in the U.K. over the summer. “ICYMI: Sources confirm to @ABC @GMA that Duchess Meghan’s mom Doria Ragland visited Prince Harry and her daughter for an extended stay at their Oxfordshire home this summer,” he wrote in a tweet. “Doria is said to enjoy a close relationship with Harry and continues to be a pillar of strength for Meghan.”
This under-the-radar trip may have been a chance for Ragland to prepare for a move. Earlier this summer, rumors began to fly that she was considering moving to London to be closer to her daughter and new son-in-law. “She fell in love with England and told me when she got back that it’s somewhere she believes she too could happily live,” a source told the Sunday Express in early August*.* “I think this has been coming for a while. Even before the wedding she told me how she misses her Megs so much she would do anything to be closer to her, especially now Meghan will be starting a family of her own.”
The source said the move could happen as early as “next month” (meaning September), though considering how skilled Ragland seems to be at dodging the paparazzi, it may have already happened and the world is none-the-wiser.
Sure, there’s a lot of anticipation placed on the dress for the royal wedding, but some of the strongest sartorial moments to come out of Saturday’s festivities may well occur on a body not belonging to Meghan Markle. Don’t believe us? Consider meme-generating hats sported by Princesses Beatrice and Princess Eugenie at Kate and William’s royal wedding in 2011, which ignited an ardent interest in festive hats among American women and arguably introduced the word fascinator to the lexicon on this side of the Atlantic.
On the eve of a wedding where hats will no doubt be front and center among the wedding guests, Glamour spoke with Ellie Fennell, co-owner of esteemed London milliner Bundle MacLaren, whose wares have graced the heads of Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Pippa Middleton, and Princess Eugenie. Fennell, whose ready-to-wear and bespoke pieces start at around 150 pounds, couldn’t go into detail about the “more than a dozen” pieces her atelier is working on for the big day, but she did agree to speak in broad terms about what kind of headwear we can expect—while also offering up some context on the thoroughly British legacy of spectacular headpieces.
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Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a Bundle MacLaren hat at an event at Buckingham Palace earlier this year
Turns out, most Americans—like some Stateside cousin with a two-episode story arc in Downton Abbey—are woefully out of our depth talking about hats. “I’d like to clarify what you mean [when you use] the word fascinator,” Fennell began. “Americans use the word fascinator to refer to something different than British people do when they use it.”
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“In England the term is slightly derogatory and means kind of a hairband or hair clip with feathers—it’s a very, very small token gesture that you wear on your head,” says Fennell. “What Americans mean by fascinators is the button-style of hat, which we still call a hat.”
With this information in mind, we decided to pull back and begin with the very basics: If I’m going to a wedding in England, what do I need to wear on my head? “At a society wedding—and the royal wedding counts as a society wedding—women are required to wear hats,” says Fennell. “But, to be an appropriate guest, you don’t need to be wearing a wide-brimmed hat as wide as your shoulders. It could be four to five inches wide, covered in silk.”
“By the English definition, I would doubt very much that there will be many fascinators at the wedding,” Fennell continued. “But 80 percent of the hats we’ve done for this royal wedding would come under the American definition of a fascinator.” In other words: There’s a good chance there will be a lot more of these than these, but there will almost certainly be none of these.
But while fascinators, by the American definition—a qualifier we’re now going to try to work casually into conversation to impress our friends every chance we get—might still be all the rage, Fennell cautioned us not to expect too many sculptural, vertiginous versions at the royal wedding.
“If you recall Kate and William’s wedding, there were quite a few hats that really stole the headlines,” she says, diplomatically. (Whatever could she be referring to?) “And I think that’s affected people. That wedding was seven years ago, and Instagram and social media are so much more prevalent and things do take on a like of a life of their own.”
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A wide-brimmed style hat at the last royal wedding in 2011
“Most of the ladies that come into my shop are in this sort of dilemma of ‘I have to look immaculate and perfectly groomed, but I also don’t want it to look like I’m trying to steal all of the headlines from the bride,’” says Fennell. “It’s a very difficult balance to get right. Once they’re sat down in the church, the only thing other guests are going to see is the hat. So it really boils down to getting the hat right.”
“Once they’re sat down in the church, the only thing other guests are going to see is the hat. So it really boils down to getting the hat right.”
Admittedly, we’re skeptical that anyone would be able to upstage Markle on her wedding day, but we respect the sentiment.
One thing you apparently definitely won’t see at the wedding? Veiling.”You really see that more at Ascots,” says Fennell. “At a wedding like this one, there’s too much air-kissing for guests to opt for veil-detailing.”
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Guests in fascinators (by the American definition) at the last royal wedding in 2011
And the question we’ve been dying to know the answer to: Will hats ever become a more consistent fixture at weddings in America? Fennell took a long pause. “I’m just as confused by this as you,” she said, finally. “I’ve worked with so many American women who are so excited by hats and love hats and want to wear hats, and yet for some reason the tradition hasn’t taken off at American weddings,” she says. “Well, certainly as of yet.”
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Kate Middleton wears a fascinator (by the British definition) in 2008.
One piece of advice for anyone—on either side of the pond—looking to get the look exactly right: Don’t match your hat to your outfit. “Someone who’s never worn a hat before might come into our store and say, ‘I’m wearing a red dress so I need a red hat.’ And we’ll say, no, you need a hat that complements your outfit,” says Bonnell. “So we’ll ask, ‘What shoes are you wearing? What jewelry are you wearing? What handbag are you wearing?’ It might be nice then, to have a navy hat, with red petals going through the hat.”
“The matchy-matchy—that’s really eighties,” she concludes.
