Sunday, February 21, 2021

Welcome to Gigi Hadid’s Grand Fantasy Fashion Game

The world is at your fingertips—or at least Gigi Hadid’s world is. Vogue’s March cover star has received her very own video game to go along with her cover. Hadid navigates a digital fantasyland and its challenges, whether it be grocery shopping to make her famous spicy vodka pasta or riding a horse in a magical field. (We also see her floating in the sky and collecting coins, and transformed into a gargantuan Amazonian beauty traipsing around the city.) The payoff? Well, Ms. Hadid unlocks new levels and, in the process, gains some stellar new outfits.

Vogue’s creative team enlisted director Alana O’Herlihy, a friend of Hadid’s, as well as stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson to bring the project to life. For more than two months Adler and O’Herlihy worked with a team of 3-D artists spanning the globe, including Carol Civre, who oversaw the full 3-D-ification of Hadid’s world; Timo Rusall, who worked to render the garments; and Wan, who was responsible for creating the accessories.

The model grabs her money—aka her Gigi cache—clicks her red ballet flats, and heads to the grocery store for a supermarket-sweep moment. She must score all the items on her shopping list to make a spicy vodka pasta. Can she do it in time? Why, yes! And she does it in full Celine, shimmying and shaking down the aisles.


Level complete and a new outfit unlocked. Now Gigi receives the power of telekinesis and is transported to her kitchen. And how chic! No apron needed as she wears a curve-skimming dress by Christopher John Rogers to work her nimble magic, creating her mouthwatering bowl of saucy carbs. Looks and tastes just like a dream.

Dinner has been served and Gigi gets a bonus power: superstrength. Our gal turns into a glamazon of Godzilla-like proportions. This challenge is tricky. Ms. Hadid is tasked to walk to work through a hustling and bustling city in her supersized form. She takes this all in stride, swishing and swaying while dressed in a pink gown by Noir Kei Ninomiya, with a train of hair flowing from under her Eric Javits headpiece.

We’re going back in time at the stables, where we see Gigi as a horse girl with a penchant for Chanel short suits and bijoux. Her Petrie riding boots aren’t even in stirrups, and this extraordinary model is able to sip tea while perched on the back of a galloping white horse. There’s even time to stop and smell the roses.

The final level has the most extreme power of them all: flight. In order to reach a pot of gold, Gigi floats across the cosmic heavens, propelled by the air filling up her JW Anderson top, along with a Gucci bag on her arm. After a quick touchdown to earth—in Coach sandals—the prize is none other than her very own Vogue cover.

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