Gigi Hadid

Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid ( ; born April 23, 1995) is an American model and television personality. In November 2014, she made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models.com. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Over the span of four years, she has made thirty-five appearances on international '' Vogue'' magazine covers.

Born in Los Angeles, she began her modeling career as a child model for Baby Guess. She signed to IMG Models in 2013 and made her New York Fashion Week debut the following year. She has appeared in numerous high fashion campaigns and editorials, and is a spokesmodel for Maybelline.

Early life

Jelena Noura Hadid was born on April 23, 1995, Website of Gigi Hadid's mother, Yolanda Foster. in Los Angeles, California, to Palestinian Jordanian real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid and Dutch former model Yolanda Hadid (née Van den Herik). Through her father, she claims descent from Daher Al Omer, Prince of Nazareth and Sheik of Galilee. She has a younger sister, Bella, and a younger brother, Anwar, both of whom are also models. She also has two older paternal half-sisters; Marielle and Alana. She and her siblings were raised on a ranch in Santa Barbara. The family moved to Beverly Hills after ten years.

In 2013, she graduated from Malibu High School, where she was the captain of the school's varsity volleyball team, as well as an equestrian. Following high school, she moved to New York City to study criminal psychology at The New School. She suspended her studies to focus on her modeling career.

Career

1997–2012: Early work

Hadid's modeling career began when she was two years old after being discovered by co-founder of Guess, Paul Marciano. She started modeling for Baby Guess before stopping to concentrate on school. She eventually returned to modeling in 2011. She resumed working with Marciano, and was named the face of a Guess campaign in 2012. She has shot three campaigns with Guess as an adult.

2013–2016: Breakthrough

After signing to IMG Models in 2013 Hadid made her New York Fashion Week debut in February 2014, walking for Desigual. In the same month she got her break in high fashion on the cover of Carine Roitfeld's ''CR Fashion Book''. On July 15, 2014, she starred alongside actor and model Patrick Schwarzenegger in fashion designer Tom Ford's Eyewear autumn/winter campaign. She co-hosted the Daily Front Row's Fashion Media Awards event that was held in New York City on September 5, 2014. She has also starred in campaigns for Tom Ford F/W 2014, Tom Ford Velvet Orchard Fragrance and Tom Ford Beauty 2014. She was featured on the cover of ''Galore'' magazine in 2014.

She appeared in the 2015 Pirelli Calendar. In that same year she was also the brand ambassador for Australian fashion swimwear label Seafolly. In January 2015 she was named the ''Daily Front Row''s Model of the Year and a Maybelline brand ambassador. In March 2015 she and her then-boyfriend Cody Simpson were featured as a part of fashion photographer Mario Testino's project "Towel Series." By May 2015 she had walked for designers Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Michael Kors, Jean Paul Gaultier and Max Mara. She appeared in the music video for Taylor Swift's song " Bad Blood", which was released in the same month. She has made several appearances alongside her younger sister Bella. In December 2015 she made her first appearance at the '' Victoria's Secret Fashion Show''.

She appeared on several magazine covers, including '' Vogue'' (United States, Paris, Italy, Britain, Japan, Spain, Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Germany, China), '' Schön!'', '' Numéro'', '' Allure'', ''W Magazine'' and '' Teen Vogue,'' as well as ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Elle'' (Canada), ''Dazed'' and '' Harper's Bazaar'' (United States, Malaysia). She has also shot editorials for '' VMAN'', ''Elle'' (United States), '' Grazia'', ''Cleo'', ''Vogue'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''Paper Magazine'', '' Vanity Fair'' and '' V Magazine''. She has also starred in campaigns for Guess, Versace, Penshoppe, Balmain F/W 2015, Topshop, Max Mara, and Stuart Weitzman.

In 2016 she walked for Versace, Chanel, Elie Saab, Fendi, Marc Jacobs, Anna Sui, Miu Miu, Balmain, Diane Von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger, Fenty x Puma, Isabel Marant, and Giambattista Valli. In January 2016 she became the global brand ambassador for Tommy Hilfiger, fronting campaigns for underwear, apparel and fragrances. In April 2016, Hadid starred in an interactive campaign including a commercial for the BMW M2. She hosted the 2016 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards in Toronto on June 19, 2016. She co-designed a capsule collection with Tommy Hilfiger called ''Gigi by Tommy Hilfiger'', which was released in the fall of 2016 at New York Fashion Week. During the Fall 2016 Fashion Weeks in New York, Milan and Paris, she opened five shows and closed seven. In October her boot collection for Stuart Weitzman titled the Gigi Boot was revealed, and she became a brand ambassador for Reebok, fronting the ''#PerfectNever'' campaign.

On November 20, 2016 she hosted the American Music Awards alongside ''Saturday Night Live'' alum Jay Pharoah. She received backlash for an impression of former First Lady Melania Trump during the show, and later apologized. In December 2016 she made her second appearance at the '' Victoria's Secret Fashion Show'', earning her wings for the first time, and in the same month she won the award for International Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards, presented to her by Donatella Versace.

2017–present: further recognition and brand collaborations

Hadid started off the Spring/Summer campaign season starring in Fendi and Moschino campaigns. she also was the face of the S/S 2017 campaign for Max Mara accessories, Stuart Weitzman and DSQUARED². The second Tommy Hilfiger and Hadid ready-to-wear collection was presented in February 2017 for the Spring season. She was the photographer of the Versus (Versace) Spring/Summer 2017 campaign which featured her then-boyfriend, singer Zayn Malik, and model Adwoa Aboah. She also photographed a special summer edition of ''V Magazine'' titled ''Gigi's Journal'', which featured Polaroids of fashion industry colleagues, celebrities and close friends.

She was featured on four March 2017 ''Vogue'' covers; American, British, Chinese, and the inaugural edition of ''Vogue Arabia''. She also appeared on the covers for ''CR Fashion Book'' (Spring/Summer 2017), '' Jolie'' (April 2017) and '' The Daily'' (Spring 2017). She featured on the May 2017 covers for the Netherlands editions of ''Vogue'', ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''Glamour'' as well as the June/July 2017 cover of ''American Harper's Bazaar''. She has starred in editorials for ''American Vogue'' (April 2017) and ''LOVE Magazine'' (Spring/Summer 2017).

She scored her second ''American Vogue'' cover in August 2017, sharing the cover with her then-boyfriend, Zayn Malik. During Fall/Winter 2017 Fashion Month in New York, Milan and Paris, she opened the shows for Jeremy Scott, Anna Sui, Versus (Versace), Alberta Ferretti, Missoni, H&M and Balmain; and closed the shows for Isabel Marant, Moschino, Max Mara and Anna Sui. She also released the first season of two new collaborations with Vogue Eyewear and Messika Jewelry. At the '' Daily Front Row's'' third annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards, she was honored for the Best Design Debut for her collection with Tommy Hilfiger. She ended 2017 by being named one of ''Glamour'''s Women of the Year, alongside Nicole Kidman, Solange Knowles, Muzoon Almellehan and others.

She started 2018 with multiple high fashion campaigns, including Valentino, Moschino, Versace and Fendi. She also went on to release her second collaboration with both Vogue Eyewear and Messika Jewelry. In February, during fashion week, she presented the fourth and last season of her capsule collection with Tommy Hilfiger in Milan.

She appeared on many different international Vogue covers in 2018, including ''British Vogue'' in March, ''Vogue Italia'' in May and ''Vogue Brazil'' in September. She also scored multiple American covers, including the ''Harper's Bazaar'' May issue, ''V Magazine'''s Fall Preview Cover V114, and ''W Magazine''. She also covered ''LOVE Magazine'''s 10th Anniversary edition, ''Chaos 69'', and ''Chaos True Originals – Disney Special''.

In November 2018, she announced her first collaboration with Reebok designing sneakers for the brand, starting with limited release on December 7 and the full collection to be released later in February 2019. She also returned to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for the third time in the same month. In early 2019, she appeared on more international Vogue covers, including ''Vogue Czechoslovakia'', ''Vogue Arabia'', and ''Vogue Hong Kong''.

In October 2019, she filmed an episode for Food Network cooking competition ''Beat Bobby Flay''. She teamed up with chef Anne Burrell against chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay. The episode was aired in June 2020. She guest-starred in an episode of ''Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?''. The episode was aired on October 1, 2020, on streaming service Boomerang.

In August 2022, Hadid revealed that she would be launching her first solo clothing line, Guest in Residence.

Activism

In January 2016, Hadid participated in ''MasterChef'' and raised $25,000 for Global Lyme Alliance, an organization centered on the pseudoscientific diagnosis of Chronic Lyme disease. In October 2016 she joined other celebrities in supporting the BBC
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