Almost exactly a decade before her August 2024 cover shoot, made a cameo in a 2014 edition of British ’s teen supplement, . “There’s something about Suki!” the profile declared, pointing to the then 22-year-old’s “brown belt in karate”, her “combat-boots-and-ballgown style”, and the “pleasantly shambolic” nature of her life in LA at the time (“she admits to a habit of falling asleep in her clothes, for instance, and then wearing them again the next day, for efficiency’s sake”). Suki would make her debut on the cover of less than a year later, posing alongside Cara Delevingne and Georgia May Jagger for the April 2015 issue in a starfish-studded look from Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s spring/summer 2015 offering for Valentino.
Over the course of the chaotic corresponding interview (“more a riotous girl gathering, squashed in the hair and make-up room” than anything else), readers learnt that Suki met Georgia May at school in Roehampton at the age of 14, with the pair “bonding on the netball court”, and that all three models traipsed to Worthy Farm together for Cara’s first experience. Their “best night out”, however, happened in London rather than Somerset: namely, Georgia May’s 21st birthday (“It was fancy dress, and Cara came as a whoopee cushion”), closely followed by Georgia May’s birthday in Las Vegas (“We stayed in a room with a bowling alley, we went to see Celine Dion, we bumped into Tyra Banks..
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