From Tara Palmer-Tomkinson to Cara Delevingne: the evolution of the It girl

The late TPT’s brand of posh fun made her a star of the 1990s party scene. But these days fame is a serious business Related: Tara Palmer-Tomkinson obituary Just over 20 years ago, the society magazine Tatler put Tara Palmer-Tomkinson on its cover, along with fellow socialite Normandie Keith, and proclaimed them the It girls. “What does it say about us that we care so much about them?” asked the coverline. Their rise, and the rise of Palmer-Tomkinson in particular, always seeme