Kendall Jenner Reveals How Cara Delevingne 'Opened That Door' into Modeling for Her: 'It Blew Up'

In a new interview with ‘Vogue,’ the model reflected on her 10-year modeling anniversary

Kendall Jenner is crediting her longtime friend Cara Delevingne with jump-starting her modeling career.

In a cover interview with Vogue published on Thursday, May 9, the 28-year-old, who is celebrating 10 years as a model, reflected on how the industry has evolved over the last decade. When Jenner started out, she was already well-known as a member of the Kardashian-Jenner crew, made famous by their hit reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

“When I came into it, you didn’t really see quote-unquote famous girls,” Jenner told Vogue. “Cara Delevingne was probably the biggest one who was known outside of modeling. She opened that door for me, and from there it blew up into a whole new thing.”

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She continued, “Now there’s another vibe coming through. You’re seeing a lot of social media creators at the shows. It’s great. It’s always just shifting and changing, and you take it day by day. I suss out the vibe. Does it align with me? If it still does, great. You don’t know what’s around the corner.”

Jenner’s career kicked off in 2014 when, at 18 years old, she walked in Marc Jacobs’ fall runway show in a nipple-baring sheer top.

"I was pretty chill even though my boobies were out," she reflected in a September 2022 installment of Vogue's Life in Looks series. "I'm all good with the nipple so it didn't make me any more nervous. I genuinely was like, 'Dope — whatever they want'.”

At the time, Jenner already had some besties in the industry — Delevingne being one of them. In December 2014, the models both walked in Karl Lagerfeld’s Métiers d’Art show in Salzburg, Austria, modeling the late Chanel Creative Director’s latest collection.

The duo, who documented their trip on Instagram, also happen to be skipping the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the gig.

“Kendall is Karl’s new girl and it’s a bold statement, because it’s been Kendall’s dream to walk in Victoria’s Secret,” an insider told PEOPLE at the time. “But she followed in her BFF Cara’s footsteps and took her advice to go with Karl.”

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Jenner and Delevingne’s friendship has continued through the years as they’ve both reached meteoric success as models and moguls. They even gave themselves a nickname that combines their first names, CaKe, and debuted shirts emblazoned with the acronym.

“We basically made it up and it’s our thing now. We call each other CaKe,” Jenner told Vogue in 2016. Though fans suspected it might signal a clothing collaboration between the two models, Jenner clarified that, “Right now it is a personal thing.”

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