Behind the Scenes with Poppy Delevigne at Her Harper's Bazaar Shoot

Photographer Gigi Stoll takes us behind the scenes at Poppy's Harper's Bazaar photo shoot for their March 2010 issue.

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In this slideshow: Poppy Delevingne

Poppy Delevinge is fashion's it girl. The March issue of Harper's Bazaar dedicated a feature to the British beauty and Modelinia went along to capture all the action behind the scenes.

"It's like Tennessee Williams once wrote," she says, her plummy British accent somewhat at odds with her smoky voice. "'Luck is believing you're lucky.'"

That may be partly true, but there are always other factors at play in good fortune. In Delevingne's case, that would be the luck of being born into an English family with a history that's rich in aristocratic connections (Granny was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret), bona fide style (Mum, in her day, was an ultrachic girl-about-town in London), and money. (Dad is a successful property developer.) Then there's the genetic windfall of a perfect sample-size body and a strong yet lovely face. Read more at harpersbazaar.com

All of the above served as Delevingne's passport to New York, where she moved two years ago from London to further her modeling and acting careers. (As a model, she follows in the tradition of storied English roses like Stella Tennant. Like Tennant, Delevingne caught the eye of Karl Lagerfeld, who made her a Chanel brand ambassador last year.)

But in a city teeming with ambitious, pretty blondes in borrowed frocks all posturing to become the next It hit, Delevingne has paved her own charmed path with, well, charm. "She doesn't take herself too seriously, which isn't as common as you'd think," says her friend and current roommate, Sienna Miller.

Meanwhile, designer Richard Chai, whom Delevingne describes as one of her "first fashion friends in New York," says, "Poppy is the best person to go out with; she looks fantastic in anything and is so much fun." Delevingne muses on the subject, "It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs."

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