Here Comes Gigi

Gigi Hadid is an unstoppable fashion force with as many balls in the air as a professional juggler. If she’s not walking the runway, she’s fronting campaigns, such as the Tommy Hilfiger X Gigi Hadid watch collaboration, or being superhuman...

The setting: Gigi Hadid is on a rooftop in Milan, starting the day off with a potent cup of coffee ahead of a rota of runway performances for fashion week. How do you plan a conversation with a girl who has 38.5 million followers (and counting) on Instagram and therefore occupies an exceptional place in the public consciousness? The chaos of fascination she courts is such that the most obsessed and ardent followers want to know what she’s doing every second of the day down to how she breathes. What leaves you breathless is knowing that she’s worth $9.5 million according to Forbes – standing in the big leagues as one of the highest-earning models in the world (she edges her sister Bella Hadid by over $3.5 million) – supremely staggering at 22, an age which for any given young person is a naval-gazing period of fair weather pursuits, trial-and-error and haplessly scraping at the proverbial barrel of life, not touching the pinnacle of fame.