[ENG] Perspective on GIGI Hadid
In this issue we will talk about the achievements of the Top Model, voted Model of the Year several times since 2016, and we will show you why...
To present the model in her entirety and as she should be.
Jelena Noura Hadid, nicknamed Gigi Hadid, born on April 23, 1995, began modeling at the age of 15 in the “Teen girl” category and participated in a few advertising campaigns for her young age.
2 years later,
She will sign with “IMG Models” a prestigious modeling agency, the one that shows itself as “THE” international agency that all models would dream of signing, the one that evokes prestige when you enter it, the one with whom you can claim, whether it is for the needs of a fashion magazine or for a parade during the Fashion Weeks of September and March.
We will highlight, during this issue, her achievements but “nota bene” that she will realize during this precise period several shootings for luxury campaigns such as Tom Ford, Reebook, Maybelline New-York and many others…
In 2015, she is the advent of the new era of models, she will be seen as a “Supermodel” for the edition of Australian Vogue and for the other editions that will derive from it a few months later.
In France she made her debut and created the cover for the magazine “ NUMERO ” for December/January 2016:
When I picked up the magazine “Numéro” where she appeared on the cover, I wanted to follow her in what she was doing, like a fan who collects all the works that his idol could create.
It is partly this cover that gave me this desire, this passion to follow this model for her future achievements in the women's fashion press.
In 2016, she will begin the world tour of the covers of the VOGUE magazine editions, she will produce a different edition almost every month with the emblematic French issue of March:
It was also in 2016 that she developed a special capsule “Gigi by Tommy” in connection with the title of ambassador for the Tommy Hilfiger brand, with whom she signed for several years, which she presented during New York Fashion Week.
2017, the year will be very similar to the previous year. Always more alignments on the front cover.
In 2018, I became more financially free and was able to discover the pleasure of buying the covers that interested me the most, that year in particular usually the two issues of March and September, more supported and more substantial in view of the new trends for the next seasons.
For the March 2018 issue, it was the first time she would share it with her sister Bella Hadid who is for me “THE” most striking cover of the 2nd half of the decade of Supermodel Gigi Hadid.
Personal anecdote
What motivated me was the cover she did for British Vogue, which I rushed to pick up at a Relay point in my town's train station ( at the time when Relay still allowed us to find European fashion magazines in sufficient quantity for a travel shop ).
That is to say that it seemed impossible to me to take only one cover on the two while they are sisters so one did not go without the other. The two covers although having the same content, in my opinion and like toys and batteries, cannot be sold separately.
In the Photographic Archives depicting the cover model one could understand a certain magazine loop in the Vogue production studios: Vogue UK, Australian, USA, Italy, China or Korea, as well as in the Netherlands.
After many years of being in demand in every magazine, Gigi Hadid is taking more and more care of herself and spending less time in shootings for monthly magazines. Her latest coup was for another magazine, the biannual POP magazine.
All this brings us to the fact that, as we will have seen during this reading, Gigi Hadid dominated the magazine posters but also the catwalks, she was often placed in the lead for the fashion shows in September and March. She will remain there for a long time with her sister Bella, who make them inseparable.
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