Gigi Hadid has spent more than a decade turning fashion visibility into a broader creative career spanning modeling, design and photography.
Born April 23, 1995, Hadid is 31 years old as of September 2026. Her current IMG Models profile says she began building her professional modeling career as a teenager and made her New York Fashion Week debut in 2014. IMG credits her with more than 35 Vogue covers worldwide and major industry honors including International Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards.
From modeling to a wider creative career
Hadid’s work has included runway appearances, editorial shoots and campaigns for major fashion and beauty brands. IMG lists Maybelline, Rabanne, Miu Miu, Isabel Marant, Zara and Jacquemus among the brands she has worked with and notes that she has appeared in four Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows.
What makes Hadid useful to watch as a modern creator is that her career is not limited to being in front of the camera. Her agency biography also credits her with designing capsule fashion collections and photographing campaigns and editorial projects for brands and publications including Versace, Miu Miu, V and i-D.
A major social-media presence
Hadid also maintains a large public Instagram presence, giving audiences a direct channel into her fashion work and public projects. That combination of traditional fashion credentials and digital reach reflects how the modern modeling business increasingly overlaps with creator culture.
For readers following fashion careers, Hadid’s trajectory shows how a model can use runway and editorial recognition as the foundation for work across multiple creative disciplines rather than treating modeling as a single lane.
Photo licensing and sources
The featured photograph is a 2015 image of Gigi Hadid credited to The Door. Wikimedia Commons states that the copyright holder’s permission was confirmed through Wikimedia’s Volunteer Response Team and licenses the image under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
Sources: IMG Models; Wikimedia Commons image and license record.
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