Excerpt from "We Overuse the Term Supermodel, but Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid Really Are Worthy of the Title":

As 2015’s reigning model MVPs, Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner have become an inescapable part of the fashion conversation. With their reality-television backgrounds and mammoth social media presence, they are the most visible representatives of the new generation of top models. But are they supermodels?

Everyone...has been called a supermodel in recent months. The designation feels premature.

What truly pushed the supermodels over the edge was their mastery of media beyond fashion. Quintessential ’90s stars like Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Kate Moss, and Cindy Crawford require no introduction...the supers had a presence that impacted, or at least captivated, culture as a whole.

If any contemporary models come close, it’s Hadid and Jenner...they’ve got everyone from Riccardo Tisci to Karl Lagerfeld in their corner, and collectively they’ve racked up runway work with a slew of luxury houses. Collaborations with legendary photographers...have come their way, as have covers and campaigns. Hadid is currently front and center on prestige glossies like Italian Vogue and Numéro, while Jenner landed one of four French Vogue 95th anniversary covers alongside Turlington, Moss, and Gisele Bündchen. Jenner and Hadid also have beauty deals.

But what truly makes Kendall and Gigi super material is the interest they generate off-duty. Magazines and websites document each move the girls make with the kind of fervor typically reserved for movie stars and musicians, with every outfit and rumored new relationship dissected with alacrity...Hadid and Jenner are the supermodel heirs apparent.

http://www.vogue.com/13376463/kendal...d-supermodels/

Do you agree?

The desperation for clicks and Instagram likes, the fashion industry is going to ****
At least Italian Vogue redeemed itself with the December cover, American Vogue has been trash

The difference between Linda, Naomi, Cindy and them is that the former could take beautiful photographs, they could walk for multiple designers in every season at every city at their prime, designers and photographers loved hem alike. Jenner and Hadid can do none of those things, and are essentially glorified Instagram models. The audacity to compare them.

Money, fame and connections their powah

Kendall will never be respected that much, she will always be ''a Kardashian'' for the GP. Anyway not that she deserves to be seen as one, the girl can't walk she is pretty but ok.
Gigi is so overrated.

They stole the runway actually so

Overrated imo but congrats

I think so. It's time to let go of the past and accept the new ways the industry works. Congrats on their success, they work hard for it, when they are easily set for life and could be living off their parents if they wanted to.

Vogue has become a joke from the moment they gave Kanye and his wife that cover
Kendall looks like your average basic white girl from the coffee shop and this Gigi girl (never heard of ha before, nobody knows ha in Brazil) looks like any other Instagram 'model'

bye

in that case it should be one of these girls http://models.com/rankings/ui/Top50

You are aware that both Kendall and Gigi are in the top50 right.

For covers, they are 2nd and 3rd respectively. Just behind Anna Ewers.

For Campaigns, Kendall is 1st and Gigi 3rd.

For Social: Kendall is 1st and Gigi 2nd.


I think they more than deserve the title.

Embarrassing... their credibility has just been flushed down the toilet...

it's true. With social media, everything changed.

This.
Both so overrated. Would be nowhere they are now if they weren't born with silver spoons in their mouths.

You people better get with the times.

They're the new, regardless if YOU like them or not.

This.

Kendall is so short compared to the other models.

I just don't understand the hype of Gigi Hadid either. Does she have rich parents too? Because her face looks plastic to me.