The flurry of speculation attendant upon Cara Delevingne and St. Vincent wearing silver rings at Chanel’s fashion show in Paris on Wednesday was predictable.
Were they engaged? Were they just wearing some silver rings?
The two are in a relationship. They have been fashion’s ‘It’ couple of the season: the 33-year-old Texan singer, and the 23-year-old very posh English model and actress—and high-profile lesbian couples in the world of fashion are too few.
Delevingne confirmed the depth of the relationship in July’s Vogue: “I think that being in love with my girlfriend is a big part of why I’m feeling so happy with who I am these days,” she said. “And for those words to come out of my mouth is actually a miracle.”
Her attraction to women had been an issue for Delevingne, she said.
“It took me a long time to accept the idea, until I first fell in love with a girl at 20 and recognized that I had to accept it. But I have erotic dreams only about men. I had one two nights ago where I went up to a guy in the back of a VW minivan, with a bunch of his friends around him, and pretty much jumped him.”
But it has been her relationship with Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, that has been played out in front of the cameras over the last few weeks, as New York, London, and Paris Fashion Weeks have rolled by.
Besides Rick Owens’s models-wearing-models catwalk japes, sightings of Delevingne and St. Vincent together have been snapped hungrily by photographers.
They are the only high-profile lesbian relationship on the front row—despite the trend of “lesbian chic,” stretching all the way back to the 1990s, visible lesbianism is relatively scarce on Planet Fashion.
Lesbianism may be used as a visual theme in fashion spreads, and this year—with Kendall Jenner, Delevingne, and their famous buddies—young women in entertainment and fashion are celebrating their close friendships, with BFF shots aplenty, on Twitter and Instagram. But lesbianism itself is absent from fashion’s public realm.
Despite their singularity, Delevingne and Clark are not being portrayed negatively by the tabloids. Not only are they together—their sense of style is stupendous. Gone is St. Vincent’s (beautiful) tangled gray mane of last year; she now sports an ethereally bouncy-looking mop of brunette curls, and favors innovatively tailored dresses and jackets. Delevingne too has a great, individual sense of style, rocking the Chanel show in a short, electric blue jacket.
In London, they were photographed emerging from a party, although in stories like this where they are photographed together, there were also dark whispers of a “distance” growing between them as a couple.
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