Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid have recently been raked over the coals by several icons in the fashion industry.
Earlier this year, legendary designer Calvin Klein said he wouldn’t have put Kendall in his ads if he’d still been at the helm.
Then former model Rebecca Romijn told the world that Kendall and Gigi “are not true supermodels.“
The latest diss comes from one of the original supermodels of the 90s, Stephanie Seymour.
“Supermodels are sort of the thing of the past. They deserve their own title,” she explained.
“Bitches of the moment!” Seymour suggested as a title for the new crop of models.
The consensus in the fashion community seems to be that designers have adopted Kendall and Gigi due to their social media influence (born out of reality shows Keeping Up With the Kardashians and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) rather than their hard work or skills.
“I know a lot of people — legitimate fashion people — can’t stand it,” Romijn told Entertainment Tonight.
But now Kendall’s had enough of the shade.
She recently took to her app and website to play defense.
“If you choose to be a cyberbully, I’m going to stick up for myself,” she began.
“No one is trying to steal Stephanie Seymour’s thing, or trying to be her. I actually looked up to her. She has a daughter!
“I guarantee you that she didn’t imagine someone so publicly shaming her daughter when she made those comments about us being ‘bitches of the moment.’”
Kendall went on to defend her and Gigi’s supermodel status.
“If people want to call Gigi and I supermodels now, it doesn’t take anything away from supermodels of the past,” she asserted.
“Obviously, I have so much respect for those women, but right now, we’re the models of this time. Significant? Maybe. Hardworking? For sure.”
However they got there, Kendall and Gigi are indeed the models of the moment. It’s a new day and social media didn’t exist in the 90s, and maybe if it had, Stephanie Seymour wouldn’t have had a job.
I can see how it might be frustrating for someone who thinks they “earned” their supermodel status by working harder, but perhaps these folks should be targeting the designers and agencies who’ve created this new tide shift in fashion rather than the models themselves.
Just a thought.
