Gigi Hadid introduced her modeling experience to the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Trend Present runway.
Hadid, 29, was among the many iconic and debut angels who participated within the Tuesday, October 15, occasion in New York Metropolis. The supermodel started the present by strutting down the runway sporting a blinding pair of the model’s iconic angel wings, pausing on the finish of the catwalk to swing her hips and stare into the group — a transfer she credited BFF Taylor Swift for whereas chatting with Leisure Tonight forward of the present. She later accomplished her last stroll down the runway in an attractive crimson ensemble.
Forward of the style present, Hadid teased whether or not boyfriend Bradley Cooper — to whom she has been linked since October 2023 — could be within the viewers to cheer her on. “He’s watching from house tonight. He’s on dad responsibility however so supportive,” she instructed ET backstage. (Cooper, 49, shares 7-year-old daughter Lea De Seine with ex Irina Shayk.)
Whereas Hadid famous that her buddies could be in attendance for the occasion, she instructed Entry Hollywood that she deliberate to observe the style present along with her 4-year-old daughter, Khai — whom she welcomed with ex Zayn Malik in September 2020 — after the very fact, because it fell near her bedtime.
Nonetheless, Khai made an influence on her mannequin mother in her first look within the Victoria’s Secret Trend Present since changing into a mother or father.
“You reevaluate your priorities, initially, so all the work that I’m doing when Khai is along with her dad and when I’m making the time to work are jobs that basically imply loads to me. And likewise I believe simply seeing life on this planet by way of a baby’s eyes makes you a lot extra grateful,” Hadid instructed Entry Hollywood on Tuesday of her expertise. “To me, it’s a lot extra rewarding within the time that I’ve to myself to work as a result of the remainder of my time is spent making reminiscences along with her.”
Hadid beforehand walked within the model’s trend present in 2015, 2016 and 2018. After the occasion was canceled in 2019 because of criticism concerning the firm’s lack of inclusivity, Victoria’s Secret rebranded and introduced the style present again this yr for the primary time since 2018.
“There was undoubtedly a time for change,” Hadid stated of the revamped occasion. “We’re doing, I believe, the present that individuals miss and folks need with plenty of new issues that have been wanted and actually required by the folks that watch it and find it irresistible.”
After a six-year hiatus, Hadid was thrilled to be included within the trend present’s revival.
“I additionally, as slightly woman, watched this present and cherished this present and dreamt about being backstage at this present. Now it’s been so a few years for the reason that final time we did it that it seems like the primary time once more, and it’s simply magical,” she gushed. “It’s, like, essentially the most glamorous model of a trend present. It’s essentially the most enjoyable one on this planet, in my view, and I’m simply so pleased to be right here.”