Joan Collins: Today’s Beauties Are Bland — Except Cara Delevingne

Joan Collins looked perfectly stylish while attend British VOGUE's Centenary Gala Dinner in London — but she doesn't let being a fashion icon keep her from dishing on today's models. The famously outspoken actress was recently very blunt about how she feels about today's hot models. Frankly, they don't strike her as too hot!

"All the '90s models — Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen — they were all totally different, which is like the movie stars of the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, and '70s." said Joan, bemoaning the modern look of the fashion industry. "Then individualism seemed to dissipate."

"I think very few of them know how to to do their own makeup properly," Joan said of today's models. "Very few of them know how to dress themselves. They have stylists now. I used to wear my own clothes, or the wardrobe department would lend me something. You did your own hair. All the actresses I still see, like Stefanie Powers and Linda Gray, we all know how to pull ourselves together. And I think if you rely on someone else to do it, you might end up looking like everybody else. I don't mean to be bitchy!"

Joan does have praise for one model, though: bisexual beauty Cara Delevingne, who's also her goddaughter — and starring in this summer's superhero movie "Suicide Squad." Not that Joan encouraged Cara when she asked her godmother about becoming an actress. "I gave her my advice in a word — 'don't,'" said Joan. "It's a hideously overcrowd profession. Incredibly difficult, so she was clever. She began modeling, and she has a wonderful look. I haven't seen any of her work, but I hear she's a wonderful actress. She's an individual."

Joan — who lost her equally glam sister Jackie Collins last year — also revealed that she had some very good inspiration for taking control of her own look. "The first time I was made up professionally," she recalled, "I was 17 and doing my first movie. I was made up by this extremely old man who didn't wash his brushes. He spat in the mascara. It was horrible — and I thought, if I can ever start to do my own makeup, I will!"