Amber Heard is not taking anything for granted when it comes to her career. “I have been doing this as the only means to sustain myself for 11 years – my entire adult life. People have been calling me an up-and-comer for 10 years,” she adds wryly. “ I would rather be called that than a flash in the pan.”

This week’s edition of NET-A-PORTER’s digital magazine under Editor-in-Chief Lucy Yeomans features actress Amber Heard in ladylike pieces by Kiki de Montparnasse, Giambattista Valli, Bottega Veneta, Jonathan Saunders, The Row and Dolce & Gabbana. In an exclusive interview, Amber Heard talks about her career and relationships and why she chose to leave home at the age of 16 . “I needed to go,” Heard says simply. “I didn’t have a goal,” she recalls. “I was just curious and hungry, and had nothing to lose. I come up from the middle of nowhere and grew up with nothing.”