Poppy Delevingne

Poppy Delevingne on weddings, sister Cara and Sienna Miller

Poppy Delevingne — model, muse and sister of Cara D — has a wonderfully bone-crunching handshake for someone so slight, and a husky, breathy, conspiratorial way of speaking that makes everything she says sound like a filthy secret. She sits so close to me on a bench in the middle of an exhibition of photographs of Coco Chanel’s apartment by Sam Taylor-Johnson that I can smell her breath, and she’s stroking my arm with her fingertips as she speaks.

The vibe is more 2am at Chiltern Firehouse than 5.45pm at an opening in the Saatchi Gallery — but the proximity, the intimacy, the whole kissy-strokey-finger-clicky confidence appears to be a necessary part of the initiation into Planet Delevingne.…Read the full article on the Evening Standard