Lily-Rose Is Officially Bringing Back the Baby Face

We’ve waxed poetic on the baby face before—the apple-cheeked appeal of Selena Gomez and Gigi Hadid that has inspired us to put down our contour kits. But there’s another bright young thing whose scene-stealing looks warrant a new assessment of the subject: Lily-Rose Depp, the 17-year-old actress of the moment, who has taken the soft, round face shape to unexpected places.

Surely it was Depp’s doll-like set of features that first caught the eye of Karl Lagerfeld, who catapulted her into the spotlight with her mother, Vanessa Paradis, at his Chanel Paris-Salzburg show. By dressing Depp in a sleek silk bandeau and embellished skirt to contrast with her girlish appearance, Lagerfeld showed that in the right context, a baby face can exude a unique form of elegance—which Depp now does wherever she turns.

There she is fronting a Chanel eyewear campaign, a set of sparkling Lennon shades offsetting her pillowy cheekbones, or stealing the show at the Met Gala in a plunging halter dress and textured knit shrug falling loose off the shoulders. Depp plays against type in her films, too: This year’s Cannes debut as a femme fatale version of Isadora Duncan in The Dancer, alongside Soko and Gaspard Ulliel, and a highly anticipated turn in Planetarium as Natalie Portman’s haunted little sister—all of which proves that cherubic looks can make an edgy role even more so. Above, three times Depp proved that a baby face is worth taking seriously.

 

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