A list of the most prominent models of the 2010s would not be complete without the inclusion of Gigi Hadid, the British Fashion Council’s international model of the year 2016. Born in Los Angeles and under contract to the world-famous agency IMG Models, she is a natural talent in what she does, unlike others in the industry who were only discovered at a later age. This is because Hadid started modeling when she was a toddler. Since then she has become one of the highest-paid supermodels in the world, has appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, and has walked the catwalk for some of the world’s most famous designers.
How Gigi Hadid Began Modeling?
Gigi Hadid started modeling for Baby Guess when she was two years old after being discovered by a fashion designer and co-founder of Guess clothing Paul Marciano. It is not clear how long she modeled for the company before she stopped focusing on training.
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The young girl then went to Malibu High School, where she took part in some sports activities. Hadid was a tournament rider and also captain of the school’s volleyball team. After graduating in 2013, she enrolled at the New School in New York to study criminal psychology as she wanted to take her modeling career to the next level.
However, two years before graduating from high school, Hadid returned to work for Marciano and Guess and was named the face of their 2012 campaign. Her wish to combine her training and her work as a model did not come true as she had imagined, so she had to drop out of college to concentrate on her career.
Highlights of Her Modeling Career
After making the decision to focus on her modeling career, Gigi Hadid signed with IMG Models in 2013. Things began to happen for her immediately when she made her debut at New York Fashion Week in early 2014 and appeared on the covers of Galore and CR Fashion Book magazines. Before the year ended, she co-hosted the Fashion Media Awards event for The Daily Front Row and worked on several campaigns for Tom Ford.
In her second year as a professional model, Gigi was named “The Daily Front Row Model of the Year”. She has also been named brand ambassador for the Australian fashion swimwear label Seafolly and brand ambassador for the cosmetics, skin, and body care company Maybelline.
The magazines she covered this year included several international editions of Vogue, Teen Vogue, Numero, W Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and Allure, and many others. She has also worked for designers such as Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Michael Kors, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Max Mara before making her first appearance at Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in December 2015.
In 2016, the year she was named International Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards and earned her wings at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Gigi Hadid was named Global Brand Ambassador for Tommy Hilfiger and Brand Ambassador for Reebok. She also designed a capsule collection called Gigi by Tommy Hilfiger together with Tommy Hilfiger, as well as a boot collection for Stuart Weitzman called Gigi Boot.
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What Else Is Gigi Hadid Known For?
Apart from her work in the world of modeling, Gigi Hadid is also known for her moderation tasks and for her appearances in various reality TV series and competitions. She has also appeared in a number of music videos for musicians like Cody Simpson, Taylor Swift, and Zayn Malik, among many others.
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Between 2012 and 2016, Hadid appeared as herself in several episodes of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She also appeared as herself in the short film “Those Wrecked by Success” in 2015. In 2016 she hosted the iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards and together with comedian Jay Pharoah she hosted the American Music Awards. Other shows she performed in this year were MasterChef in the episode “MasterChef Celebrity Showdown” and in the Lip Sync Battle Show. She was also a guest juror in an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Most recently she had a cameo appearance as herself in Ocean’s 8 and in the short film Pirelli Calendar, both in 2018.
Other Members of Her Family Have Modeling Careers
Gigi Hadid is the daughter of the Jordanian-American real estate developer Mohamed Hadid and the Dutch-American model who became a reality TV star, Yolanda Hadid. The supermodel is not the only child of the couple, who have followed in her mother’s footsteps as her two younger siblings; sister Bella and brother Anwar are also successful models who are under contract with IMG Models.
Bella, who signed with IMG Models in 2014, was named Model of the Year at both the second annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards and the GQ Men of the Year Awards 2016. Later that year she lost to her sister at the British Fashion Awards for the “International Model of the Year” award. Among the magazines Bella has covered are Seventeen Magazine Mexico, CR Fashion Book’s #CRGirs, V Magazine, various international editions of Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour and Elle, Allure, Double Magazine, W Magazine Korea, British GQ and many others.
Anwar on the other hand signed with IMG Models in 2016. He was featured on the cover of Teen Vogue and was the face of the HUGO line of Hugo Boss Menswear.