Gigi Hadid's Uber-Serious Fashion Mood by Collier Schorr for Harper's Bazaar US

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Gigi Hadid's Uber-Serious Fashion Mood by Collier Schorr for Harper's Bazaar US AOC Fashion

Supermodel Gigi Hadid covers the August 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar US. Hadid wears dour-looking clothes in a fashion story styled by Ludivine Poiblanc. “Come’on, Anne. Chin up, girl. It’s only fashion. “

Sorry. Gigi looks dour. The clothes are dour. The images by Collier Schorr are dour. Everything is dour, dour, dour. Durga Chew-Bose’s interview with Gigi is not dour.

Between the depressingly dour fashion story and the subheadline: “At 26, Gigi Hadid isn’t done playing the role of supermodel. But with a new baby , new priorities, and a new regard for her own mental health”, she’s carving out space to do it on her own terms” — Harper’s Bazaar had me genuinely worried about Hadid.

AOC has been ferociously supportive of Gigi Hadid from the first day. We don’t specialize in armchair criticism of models. I can name three situations where Gigi was in the hot seat, and we defended her. Think fortune cookies and a plane ticket cancelled for Shanghai.

Wait up, here. I’m looking at a short video of the shoot, and Gigi Hadid looks delightfully happy and serene. In the video she doesn’t look dour at all.

Deciding to feature Gigi Hadid as all doom and gloom was an executive decision. It’s as if she and Collier Schor were having all kinds of fun and a voice from the heavens said “WHY ARE YOU TWO JUMPING FOR JOY IN MY PHOTO SHOOT!!!”.

In her interview, Gigi shares insights into the family dynamic, in a way I don’t remember reading. She’s reflective about her own mannerisms and way of communicating, and does differentiate between herself and sister Bella. Of course Gigi talks about race.

Some AOC readers may not know that when Gigi, Bella, and Dua Lipa took a strong stand on their support for Palestine in the recent conflict, a full-page ad ran in The New York Times condemning Gigi, Bella, and Dua Lipa [brother Anwar’s girlfriend] for that support of their own heritage.

Hadid does share an interesting psychological story of keeping multiple journals. “During my pregnancy, I had one journal that I called my good journal and one journal that I called my bad journal. They weren’t that literal, but one was more for the memories, for Khai. Maybe one day I’ll give her the bad journal just to be real about it.”

What was inside the “bad” journal?

“Anxieties and days where I felt like, ‘Am I good enough to be a mom?’” she says. “I didn’t want to feel guilty about feeling those things or writing those things down. I just liked the separation. . . . “

THOSE are the words of a thoughtful, resourceful young woman with major psychological insights about the human condition and how it works for us and against us simultaneously.