Gigi Hadid's Joyful Wisdom and Spring Fashion for InStyle US March 2022

Supermodel Gigi Hadid projects a magnetic, joyful persona on the cover of InStyle US Magazine’s March 2022 issue. EIC Laura Brown describes Khai’s mom as “unselfconsciously animated”, as Hadid follows up her spectacular “sisterhood” images from the Versace Spring 2022 campaign with another announcement.

Netflix announced Hadid would be joining Tan France as co-host of the second season of ‘Next in Fashion’, a perfect next step in Gigi’s public life.

Julia Von Boehm styles Gigi in Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Gucci, Isabel Marant, Prada, Valentino and more, with jewelry galore lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko [IG] . / Hair by Bob Recine; Makeup by Erin Parsons

AOC chooses to focus on a very positive word that Brown uses to describe Gigi Hadid: “self possessed”. Modern culture around women is obsessed with the word ‘confidence’, but ‘self-possessed”’ encompasses ‘confidence’, but perhaps not in a ‘Queen of Instagram’ sort of way.

Being self-possessed also involves having presence of mind and composure, a state of being that often requires self-discipline emotionally. Note that I didn’t say ‘denial’. Confidence is often easily contrived and superficial — and therefore, easily lost — but self-possession runs to our inner-core and self-identity.

The persona that Gigi Hadid manifests today is confidence that comes from being self-possessed.

Laura Brown clearly didn’t know about Gigi Hadid’s new flying trapeze story for V Magazine #134, lensed by Mario Sorrenti, when she asked: “Are you the scaredy one or are you the one who's on the roller coasters?”

Hadid replies: “Oh no, I'm on every roller coaster. I've jumped out of a plane in Dubai. We did it over the Palm hotel. It was so cool. The best part of skydiving is the view, so if you're going to skydive, don't do it over some dry fields.”

Clarifying her words, Hadid adds: “I love control and organization, but it's good to do things that challenge it.” Read the entire Gigi Hadid interview in InStyle’s March issue and see the product credits: The Unabashed Joy of Being Gigi Hadid.