Het kan je niet ontgaan zijn: na vorige week in de show van Max Mara meegelopen te hebben, werd Gigi Hadid buiten ineens opgetild door een man. Terwijl haar bodyguard nog geen actie ondernam, vocht het model zichzelf heldhaftig vrij. De grote vraag is nu natuurlijk waarom de kerel haar te grazen nam.
De man in kwestie heeft al eerder dit soort geintjes uitgehaald, onder andere bij Kim Kardashian en Leonardo DiCaprio. Naast dat hij overduidelijk geniet van de aandacht die zijn daden te weeg brengen, zegt hij er ook een andere motivatie voor te hebben.
"While I consider Gigi Hadid beautiful, she and her friend Kendall Jenner, have nothing to do with high fashion. By doing this I encourage fashion industry to put true talents on the runway and Vogue covers instead of well-connected cute girls from Instagram. You can call it a manifest or a protest. This is also a wake up call for Anna Wintour who turned Vogue into tabloid by putting Kardashians and other doubtful celebrities on a cover of a well-respected magazine ", aldus dader Vitalii Sediuk op Instagram.
Of dat waar is of niet, de meningen zijn daar zeker over verdeeld (hoewel het erop lijkt dat team Gigi beduidend groter is), dat geeft je wat ons betreft nog niet het recht om iemand zo beet te nemen. Wat vinden jullie?
Lees zijn complete verklaring onder het filmpje van het incident.
My article on why I think Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner are not super-models and what's wrong with fashion industry today PART 1: It's not easy to walk through Milan streets these days for me... Gigi Hadid is everywhere: on the trams, window shops, news-stands, etc..and her young optimistic fans calling me a "pedophile" on Instagram for lifting her up when I'm only 27 y.o. ;) It seems after Cara Delevingne partially left fashion for cinema (which was a wrong move, I think) Gigi took away her crown completely. After encounter with Ms. Hadid at Max Mara show in Milan, I expressed my opinion that while I considered her beautiful, she and her friend Kendall Jenner, had nothing to do with high fashion, more of Instagram fame. I still stand with my opinion despite the backlash. Prefix "super" to "model" means certain requirements. When you go to fashion agency, they make a photo of you at different angles with no make-up on you, professional lights and other additional supplements that would help you stand out and cheat a little at audition. Usually agents looking for boys and girls with dramatic cheekbones, edgy, almost scary, face features to book them for campaign or runway. If Gigi and Kendall go to high profile agency in Paris or Milan without their surname, they would definitely not have passed through the first audition round. In Europe those who represent fashion and make decisions are not shy in responses. The direct answer to you "No", "You don't fit" is common while in the United States people might be offended for hearing this directly in your face. There are other ways to get into this industry - fame and connections. While I have nothing against kids of rich and famous parents, when you come from such environment you have to work harder than anybody else to prove that you are not worse than those boys and girls who desperately wait for their auditions rounds being hungry and sleepy (probably because they work at night time, somewhere at the bar, to pay their bills). While taking a look at Kendall Jenner's numerous photoshoots or runway appearances, I see the same face emotions all over again. She looks bored and completely uninterested..
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PART 2: ..It seems she doesn't live it up and feel the moment. Modelling is also acting, where Madonna's "Strike a pose", "Express yourself" is not an empty sound. It seems Ms. Jenner has skipped those acting classes. She doesn't seem very much excited about her yet another Vogue cover making it look like it's not a big deal describing it simply on Instagram - "Spanish Vogue October issue". It would be a big deal for someone who works half of his/hers life to be on a prestiges cover. As for Gigi Hadid, she has a SWAG, but it's still doesn't put you in a "super-model" position. Wearing huge sunglasses that cover half of your face and expressing "I'm a bitch" emotion whenever you walk out from public place, makes you look rather not matured. But there are models that you can learn from, especially how to walk the runways: Snejana Onopka and her "I don't give a fuck", Sasha Pivovarova, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Irina Kravchenko, etc. Both Gigi and Kendall depend much on their huge instagram following that makes it very attractive for fashion agencies to book them for bigger PR of a particular product. It's not a secret that nowadays you can buy followers, likes, comments, etc.. Selena Gomez is reaching 100m followers this week on Instagram. Does it make her voice sound better or help cement her status among the greatest artists? No. And if you pay close analysis to hers or Kendall's /Gigi's instagram following, you would find out that a large part of their followers are fake accounts. There are even programs and apps in the Internet to identify that. Still, as for Selena, I consider her likeable. There are of course other type of models that raise questions as well. Without any doubt, Irina Shayk is hot but without high profile boyfriends (who use her to hide their not traditional orientation) she wouldn't be on the runways of Versace and Givenchy. I liked her on a cover of "Sports Illustrated" though, where she advertised swimsuits. But Irina is not an 'haute couture' material. Despite all, we should not blame them for being all over.
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PART 3: ..The likes of fashion pioneers Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, Donatella Versace, Anna Della Russo or Carine Roitfeld (the one I made a selfie with for a reason) are responsible for letting these models to have prefix "super". Anna Wintour makes a poker face, whenever she walks out from a fashion show or a public event without liking to answer any questions but when she put Kardashians on the cover of a well-respected magazine Vogue, she made a lot of people upset. And it's fair enough that they demand answers to certain questions. Her likability to ego-maniac Kanye West also made people raise eyebrows. He is a talented musician but fashion isn't his thing (by the way, his new song "Fade" is playing now in a cafe where I am writing this article. I think it's catchy). Though Vogue is not only about Wintour. Her college Anna Dello Russo, Vogue Japan's Editor-In-Chief, made me ask a few questions as well. When does she find a time to write or edit articles, reviews on numerous collections when she changes up to 3 outfits per day during fashion week and posing non-stop to streets-style photographers pretending to be speaking on the phone all the time? There's nothing bad to like attention but when you occupy such a top fashion position, I bet, you have a lot of work to do. She doesn't seem to spend a lot of time in Japan either. Fashion is all about "gang". Designers, models, fashion editors, agents they are all friends to each other, partying, drinking, relaxing (Ibiza would be their favourite spot)..they all do it together. Which means when one of them gives a green light to a certain model, likes of Kendall or Gigi, who don't deserve enough to be there, it means the rest of the "gang" will approve it as well. And when you call out one member of "gang" for being unprofessional, get ready for a blacklist. P.s. As for incident with Ms. Hadid, her kickboxing classes were on point ;) Her tough elbowing kick broke my lip but I don't complain. I started this..and, Gigi, your boyfriend Zayn is lucky he was not there because it would be yet another panic attack to him... Vitalii Sediuk
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