Supermodel-turned-multi-hyphenate Cara Delevingne is opening up about one of the most-discussed chapters of her career — her Victoria's Secret runway debut — even as she sets out to reintroduce herself as a musician.
In a wave of recent interviews, Delevingne reflected candidly on what walking the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show felt like early in her modelling years. The experience, she said, "felt like dress-up," adding the now widely-quoted line: "I'm not an Angel. I'm a devil." (Page Six). She has also spoken about the "darker" context behind a debut she described as "horrible" (BuzzFeed), a strikingly honest counter-narrative to the glossy image the show traditionally projected.
Reintroducing herself
The reflections arrive as Delevingne pivots toward a new creative chapter. Vogue reports she is "ready to reintroduce herself," offering a behind-the-scenes look at the music she has been working on — a reminder that the British star's career has long stretched well beyond the runway, across film, activism and now her own songwriting.
Where she sits in fashion history
Delevingne remains one of the defining faces of the 2010s fashion boom — the era of the bold-browed, social-first supermodel. Her candour about the Victoria's Secret machine lands at a moment when the brand's former Angels era is itself being re-examined across the industry.
On GetModel, Cara Delevingne appears in our model directory, and her reflections connect directly to the history we track in our Victoria's Secret Angels ranking — where the brand's contracted Angels are ordered by years under the famous wings. In the week of her comments she was among the fastest-rising profiles by global readership across the models we follow.
Sources: Page Six, BuzzFeed, Vogue. Card photo: Cara Delevingne for Rimmel London, via Wikimedia Commons (CC).