Gigi Hadidwent flying through the sky for an “epic” cover shoot.
Dressed in sky-high Balenciaga pumps and a belted catsuit, Hadid proved she can model in any element as she flew through the air across a trapeze while Sorrenti photographed her for theVfashion spread. For the cover shot, Hadid swung through the air with her legs hooked around the trapeze bar and her arms stretched out to reach the opposite side.
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Another shot shows Hadid inches away from grasping hands with a trapeze artist. The model also masterfully modeled in acrobatic rings for the fashion spread.
She shared some photos from the shoot on Instagram and thanked both Sorrenti and theTrapeze School New Yorkfor helping pull off the photo shoot. “Think we all did a lil leap of faith into 2022 … thanks for letting this be mine@vmagazine! Big love always to@mario_sorrentiand SG for leaping into these crazy concepts with me … and making them more epic than I could’ve imagined xxxx,” Hadid wrote on Instagram.
“Gratitude to my new friends at@tsnynewyorkfor your time and expertise! Had the best time,” she added.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, can she do it? It’s so dangerous.’ I’m always worried about your safety first. And then I thought, ‘Well, she’s pretty badass, and she killed it when we did the jet ski, so let’s try it,'” Sorrenti told Hadid in theVcover story.
Hadid said she only went up on the trapeze less than 10 times during the shoot and Sorrenti was left with less than a minute each time to capture the perfect photo. But he said she was “so focused and so committed and so athletic,” that he didn’t have trouble getting the shot.
That said, flying around on the trapeze did take a toll on Hadid’s body. “I didn’t feel athletic the day after,” Hadid said. “My high school muscle memory came back and then the next day I was like, ‘Oh, wait. I’m an old mother now, Mario.'”
Hadid welcomed her daughter,Khai, withZayn Malikin Sept. 2020.
Copies of the V134 issue are available to buy atshop.vmagazine.com.
source: people.com
