Gigi Hadid Sexes Up LOVE Magazine S/S 2016 In Images By Carin Backoff

Gigi Hadid sexes up the pages of LOVE Magazine, styled by Sally Lyndley for images shot by Carin Backoff.

Interviewed by Paul Flynn, Hadid shares a great story about the women who have helped her Madeleine Albright style. Pressed on her walk by a quick-to-judge online fashionistas, Gigi was taking heat on her walk. Carine Roitfeld and Donatella Versace jumped to her defense. But it was Naomi Campbell who straightened out Hadid's head:

“The debate about Gigi’s walk was finally resolved in her head in a Milan hotel corridor by Naomi Campbell. ‘I was with Naomi a couple of weeks before the VS show,’ she explains. ‘She said, “Don’t apologise, don’t do it. You are perfect the way you are. Everyone said my walk was weird too.”’ Gigi’s life motto, one that seems to be working out just great for now, is ‘work hard, be nice, make a friend’. Naomi invited Gigi to her hotel for a quick workshop. ‘I was like, OK. I go to her hotel and we end up practising walking in the hallway of the hotel. Italian families are coming out to watch and she’s like, “Don’t look at them, keep walking, they’re your audience.” The elevator would open and the waiter would come out – “Don’t look at him, he’s your audience, do a spin and keep going.” It was terrifying, walking in front of this Italian grandmother and her kid. After getting a lot of different opinions about my past Fashion Week I went into the VS show thinking, “Yeah. Maybe I am different, but I have heard Naomi saying, ‘Bitch better have my money after I walked for her.’ So it’s going to be fine.” If people don’t like how I walk then they don’t have to watch.’ ”