Bella Hadid talks style, modelling and Nike
SHE’S one of the world’s most influential supermodels who can make a trend with one social media post. But Bella Hadid has some advice for anyone trying to dress like her. “If you see something you love, put it on. F*** where it came from,” Hadid said.
“Are we allowed to curse today? Oh, sh*t, I mean.”
The Victoria’s Secret model, 20, is the new face of Nike and the latest catwalk star to ink a deal with a major sporting brand. Her sister Gigi Hadid, 22, is an ambassador for Reebok, Kendall Jenner, 21, is a new signing to Adidas Originals. And Kylie Jenner, 19, and Cara Delevingne, 24, both have lucrative deals with Puma (Kylie’s is said to be worth $1 million).
Bella is already having a huge impact on the Nike brand, as the face of its rebooted Cortez sneaker.
This month, she sported the shoe with tennis-inspired outfits at the French Open in Paris and went for a Jenny From The Block look at the Los Angeles launch.
Hadid describes her style as “cool”, “classy” and “nasty”.
“I always go for some sick 70s style all the time, I think bell bottoms are dope,” Hadid said. “And then you go through 80s – you go through colourful – and then 90s, of course, I represent the 90s all the way.”
Hadid, who used to date Starboy singer The Weeknd, confessed she has “the biggest sneaker collection ever”.
So how can you style a pair of sneakers like a supermodel? “Anybody can put sneakers with a dope outfit and make it a little cooler,” Hadid said.
“I feel like for a minute, guys were allowed to wear sneakers and that was a staple piece for them.
“And now we can put them with a dress and it looks doper than it does with jeans,” Hadid said at the Cortez launch in LA.
Hadid turned heads last month when she wore a near-naked Alexander Wang mesh catsuit to US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour’s Met Ball in New York, posing on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a G-string and exposed back.