Amazonian Woman

In Paris for Longchamp’s 70 th anniversary celebrations, Charmaine Ho cosies up with Kendall Jenner for an exclusive tête-à-tête.

- Kendall Jenner

With an army of Instagram followers that’s close to 98 million people strong, countless features on magazine covers across the globe, regular appearances on television and even more appearances on the fashion runway, Kendall Jenner is arguably one of this generation’s most recognisable faces. Yet, despite the barrage of Kendall imagery found on every news and social media feed (eating, sleeping, or simply breathing with her hair shaped into hearts), the 23-year-old Instagirl’s beauty #IRL still manages to astound.

The Long champ brand ambassador is sitting poised and collected on a lush sofa in the Parisian brand’s office, located above its Rue Saint Honoré flagship store. The light is streaming through the windows and it lights up her skin as if she has magically managed to surround herself with a filter app. She’s dressed in a white leather dress and black gladiator sandals from the brand’s spring/summer 2019 collection that showed during New York Fashion Week (the brand’s first-ever) just three days prior—a collection she’s quick to declare as being “super-fun”.

“I remember watching the show and just thinking that everything was full of life and interesting to look at; plus it’s full of colour,” she says of a collection filled with breezy chiffon numbers, grounded ever so slightly by fringed leather that swayed happily with the body’s every move. “I wore a bright purple little dress to the show. It was super-cute and it made me happy. The line is pretty similar; there are some really bright looks and prints that I liked.”