Celebrities are just like Us! Gigi Hadid opened up about her experience launching a fashion brand — and how it isn’t as easy as it might look.“I have imposter syndrome all the time,” Hadid, 27, said during a Vogue interview that was published on Friday, October 14, in regard to the anxiety she feels after launching her Guest in Residence cashmere brand last month.
While Hadid remains booked and busy in the model world, she revealed that being a mom to 2-year-old daughter Kai — whom she shares with ex Zayn Malik — is what motivated her to take her career to the next step. “You can’t model forever,” the California native explained. “I was creative and that is where I saw my life going.
I already had been thinking about cashmere, but I think [pregnancy] just made me think about how much more settled I would feel to have an office space job.
I can take my daughter there with me.”The model shared that choosing a more high-end type of fashion for Guest in Residence made the experience more challenging than if she had opted for something less luxurious. “I thought that it was … not necessarily obvious, but expected for me to come out with something that was more a fast-fashion type situation,” Hadid told Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. “It just felt like the right material that I could play with in a lot of different ways that was true to me, true to my style.” Hadid made headlines earlier this month after she took to social media to defend Karefa-Johnson, 31, who was targeted by Kanye West after she criticized the “White Lives Matter” shirt he sported during his Yeezy season 9 fashion show at Paris Fashion Week. “This is not a fashion person You speak on Ye Ima speak on you Ask Trevor Noah,” the Grammy winner wrote in
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