British model Cara Delevingne’s collaboration with fine leather company Mulberry has produced some new goodies – just in time for Christmas.
And Delevingne helpfully contributed her favourite print, camo, and her signature love of lions.
The first Delevingne-Mulberry team-up led to a memorable collection of backpacks with purse clasps, multi-purpose handbags and excellent totes – plus the revelation that Cecil, Delevingne’s bunny, had tried to escape in Mulberry HQ.
The newest range is less arm candy, more practical: it’s the smaller side of the accessory business, focussing on wallets, iPad covers, card carriers and the other, more affordable bits and pieces that can be stuffed in a stocking.
It’s meant to complement the main collection, which has apparently been a very good seller indeed. “The Mulberry Cara Delevingne Bags are flying off the shelves, with new versions available in time for Christmas,” Mulberry’s PR helpfully told shoppers who’d missed out the first time.
The camo print pieces were apparently inspired by Delevingne’s decision to hide from teachers at school, a truant tendency Mulberry has converted into dark shades of blended greens and blues.
Our favourites have to be the pieces in blue camo, a mix of navies, rich sea blues and pale robin’s egg on an iPad cover, a phone holster, a wallet and a purse. The tiny stylised lion’s-head rivets on the front of every piece are eminently cute, too.
None are oversized or particularly weirdly designed, but Mulberry did let slip the very eccentric titbit that the team likes Cara so much they’ve named a lamb after her.
Cara the lamb apparently lives outside the brand’s factory in the British countryside, but considering the real Cara’s habit of picking up animals from fashion jobs they may want to keep it inside when the model comes to visit.
If you’re on the hunt for a Cara bag but don’t know what might suit you, Mulberry’s also come up with a fun (and slightly demented) game to help you select your choice. Their website contains the Carascope, a set of questions designed to pick your style.
The questions – naughty or nice, punk or posh, night or day – are all illustrated by giant photographs of British animals (except for that one rogue cockatoo). Make your selections, and the game picks the perfect bag for your needs.
It’s the perfect fit for the frankly weird animal-loving model, but they haven’t put in the new collection of tiny pieces yet – so you’ll just have to nab them all, to suit your different moods.
Will you be asking for a piece of Cara Delevingne’s Mulberry collection, big or small, for Christmas?
Image: Cara Delevingne for Mulberry.
