Celebrity Style Magazine: Picnicking with Cara Delevingne (and Mark Carney) and Mulberry at the Wilderness Festival

It's not often that Cara Delevingne finds herself overshadowed, but she was no match for the governor of the Bank of England.

Mark Carney, the Canadian in one of the most powerful regulatory positions in the British economy, is usually knee-deep in monetary policy data and inflation reports. On Saturday, however, he was knee-deep in a meadow, as a surprise guest of Mulberry at their Wilderness Festival picnic in Cornbury.

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Delevingne bopped around as the party's zippy host, toting one of the bags from her forthcoming collaboration with the British brand and sipping Laurent Perrier with a starry thespian gang that included Jamie Winstone, Holliday Grainger, the Treadaway twins, Bonnie Wright and Douglas Booth. But it was Carney who got chins wagging as he mingled with guests in a burgundy polo shirt, chinos and fawn suede loafers.

Cara at co around the Cara Van'

The picnic's setting was typical Mulberry: a walled garden in the grounds of the Cornbury Park estate, punctuated with hay bales and golden heart-shaped balloons. One corner housed the 'Cara Van', surely the cleanest Land Rover in Oxfordshire, while guests lounged on Mulberry-check picnic blankets and enjoyed champagne from 1920s saucers.

It had taken a little coaxing to get the garden to the perfect 'wild' state, as Lady Tania Rotherwick confided. "This used to be full of green houses and orchards, back in the days when the estate had 30 gardeners, but it fell into disrepair," she confided. "Today, normally this garden is cut as a football pitch, but we let it grow for Mulberry."

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Lady Rotherwick presides over Cornbury Park, the 17th century hunting lodge in whose grounds the festival resides, and was more than happy to accommodate Mulberry in a private location away from the regular revellers enjoying gourmet macaroni cheese for £9.50 at the glampy Oxfordshire festival.

Delevingne with actress Jaime Winstone

"The brand director of Mulberry is a great old friend of mine, and she loves Wilderness, so we thought it would be a fantastic brand fit." She had the requisite Cara rucksack in camouflage grey and white calfhair slung over one dungaree-clad shoulder, and deemed it the epitome of "festival chic".

But how to explain Carney's appearance? Would he, too, be sporting a Cara bag, stamped with a 'Made in England' badge, both a nod to the fact that each bag is made in Somerset and a reference to Cara's own tattoo that appears on the sole of her foot? The governor wouldn't comment, but his materialization can be attributed to the fact that his wife Diana is the sister of Lady Rotherwick. This heritage brand likes to keep it in the family.

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