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S8 EP4: Cara Delevingne discusses getting sober, engagement rumours, and being Karl Lagerfeld's muse

Explore episode Jun 29, 2026
Society & Culture
Sexual Assault Was Rampant in Fashion

S8 EP4: Cara Delevingne discusses getting sober, engagement… · Jun 29, 2026 Society & Culture

Cara says sexual assault was rampant in the fashion world when she was coming up. Test shoots were a common vector: young photographers would offer underage girls alcohol and then push boundaries — including asking 15-year-old girls to get naked in a bathtub together while their mothers watched. Cara, the oldest person present, refused. The photos still exist.

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Sexual Assault in the Fashion Industry

At 18:20 · chapter starts 18:00

A throwaway Lagerfeld quote about models and having their 'pants pulled about' opens a much darker door. Cara confirms — without much hesitation — that sexual assault was rampant in fashion at that time. She focuses on test shoots as a vector: young photographers (she questions the motives of straight male photographers of models), mostly unprofessional, who would offer underage girls alcohol and then escalate. The specific incident she returns to involves two girls, aged 15 and 16, whose mothers were present when a photographer asked them to get naked together in a bathtub. Cara, at 17 and the only person of legal age, refused. Their mothers agreed. The photos still exist, she says, and they're horrible. She is careful to distinguish exploitation from legal sexual assault but is clear about the atmosphere of systematic violation.

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