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,35,Brazil, $44m(Dh161.58m),6.4m
Instagramfollowers Kendall Jenner, 19 is a new entry on the list of top-earning models (see below) this year, earning $4m and a growing profile thanks to her monster social media presence (39m Instagram followers and counting). for the Italian brand Superga. “The logo is on the sole because I wanted to stay away from putting my name everywhere,” she says, chucking me a style to peruse.
“Even though I’m doing well, I’m not huge. People aren’t gonna buy a shoe just because it says Binx on it. So I wanted to make some cool shoes and focus on the little details — 3D mesh on the inside because in this industry you get a lot of blisters 23,England,$9m,21.1m 2
Instagramfollowers and mesh is more comfortable than canvas, little metal lace hoops that feel quite urban.”
As we continue to chat, Walton exudes the trademark keeping-it-real ethos that has led to her success, talking of her family — “my most expensive purchase? I bought my mum a car” — and her friends — “I live with a model, Lexi [Boling], in New York, in an apartment with a snake tank and a huge brown couch and 34,Brazil,$9m,5.6m 3 Instagramfollowers that’s it. You don’t wanna live too fancy. It just makes your ego bigger.”
(Walton and Boling were accused of bullying after posting comments on an Instagram post of Kendall Jenner backstage at New York Fashion Week last February; Boling later apologised.)
She plays down her good fortune, but Walton is one in a million. Few girls make it big these days, and fewer still have the backing to convert a smash 30,Holland,$7.5m,3.5m 4
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