“Our casting director said, ‘She doesn’t really fit because you know she’s not quite as tall as the other girls, she’s not quite as thin,” Hilfiger said in an interview with Yahoo.
So, during Hilfiger’s New York Fashion Week in 2015 Gigi had wear a red, white, and blue poncho as a compromise.
“It covered a lot of her body unfortunately, but it received millions of hits,” the fashion designer said.
Gigi Hadid is also one of the faces of brands like Victoria’s Secret and Stuart Weitzman. She has designed boots For Weitzman, the ‘Gigi Boot’.
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