The ‘superest’ of supermodels Gisele Bündchen covers the February 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar US, writes Alicia Kennedy. That other supers crew may have a thing or two to say about Gisele being queen of the pack, but we’re just scribing here. From 2002 to 2016, Bündchen was listed by Forbes as the highest-paid model in the world.

Carlos Nazario [IG], recently named Harper’s Bazaar Style Director, and photographer Luis Alberto Rodriguez [IG] — and Gisele, of course — deliver a high-impact, resort into spring fashion story.

Gisele is airborne, animated and alive with vitality. No just standing there with a stare for Gisele B. Living well requires us to get a move on — a key point of her interview with Kennedy.

Nazario chooses Bottega Veneta, Dior, Fendi, Ferragamo, JW Anderson, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, Miu Miu, Rick Owens, Victoria Beckham and more for Bündchen. Jewelry is from Jacquie Aiche and Van Cleef & Arpels./ Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Yadim

If you are a younger creative/design professional, you may not know very much about Gisele Bündchen life story. For you, Harper’s B delivers an excellent interview.

Fresh news for AOC is Bündchen’s forthcoming cookbook end of March, “Nourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body & Feed Your Soul”. And also that photographer Nino Muñoz is a close, forever-friend of hers.

Reflecting on their youth [a time when Gisele experienced terrible anxiety, although no one ever knew it pre-Instagram], Munoz told Harper’s:

“As a group of friends, we’d meet up, we’d go out for dinner, we might go out, but she was the first one to leave and go home and get her good night’s rest for the next day to start it all over again,” he says. “Everything she does is with intention.”

In conclusion, kudos to the A-Team. Gisele puts a whole lotta work and pursuit of excellence into everything she does — a fact noted by Kennedy in the interview. She’s a wow. AOC argues, that Gisele facilitates the excellence of those around her, too.

Gisele is to modeling what LeBron is to NBA basketball. Unadulterated excellence. ~ Anne