--- title: Taylor Swift Explains Why Gigi Hadid Is a Star description: The superstar model's good friend shares the reason everybody loves Gigi in a new profile in Harper's Bazaar. canonical: https://time.com/4779517/taylor-swift-on-gigi-hadid/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-15T21:41:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:39.864Z og:title: Taylor Swift Explains Why She Goes to Gigi Hadid for Advice og:description: The singer dishes on what sets the model apart og:url: https://time.com/4779517/taylor-swift-on-gigi-hadid/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdca3b5c398ff5be1/6988cd5b97cdff22b66b0b52/taylor-gigi.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings In New York City - May 29, 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Explains Why She Goes to Gigi Hadid for Advice twitter:description: The singer dishes on what sets the model apart twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdca3b5c398ff5be1/6988cd5b97cdff22b66b0b52/taylor-gigi.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Explains Why She Goes to Gigi Hadid for Life Advice  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 15, 2017 9:41 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - MAY 29: Model Gigi Hadid (L) and musician Taylor Swift seen on the streets of Manhattan on May 29, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Stewart/GC Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 29: Model Gigi Hadid (L) and musician Taylor Swift seen on the streets of Manhattan on May 29, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Stewart/GC Images)Michael Stewart—GC Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 15, 2017 9:41 PM UTC In a new cover story for [_Harper’s Bazaar_](http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a9640039/gigi-hadid-interview-cover-story/), Gigi Hadid offers a peek into her life as an in-demand model. Appropriately for the supernova-status model, the accompanying photo shoot for the story took place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Hadid got to prepare for a [_Star Trek_](http://time.com/4585523/new-tv-shows-2017/item/star-trek-discovery/)\-ready future. What does it take to make it to the top of the famously competitive industry? Hadid’s good friend [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/4779100/taylor-swift-fan-flowers/) weighed in. “As a friend, Gigi is one of the first people I go to for advice,” the singer told _Bazaar_. “She has this incredible ability to see all sides of a situation and simplify it for you, to see the complexity of people… Gigi’s #1 rule is to treat people the way she’d want to be treated, so she’s on time (or early) to work, says hello to everyone on set, asks them how they are, and actually listens to their response. She is an innately kind and inclusive person who has managed to become a huge power player and businesswoman without ever compromising that.” As one of the latest generation’s crop of Instagram superstars,” Hadid is one of the most recognizable faces in fashion and beauty today, alongside her gang of all-star friends like Swift. [At just 22](http://motto.time.com/4696623/gigi-hadid-boyfriend-zayn-malik-versus-versace-campaign/), she’s known for fronting major brand campaigns as well as contributing her design eye to Tommy Hilfiger and Stuart Weitzman, and even going behind the camera to photograph her boyfriend, “Pillowtalk” singer and [Taylor Swift collaborator](http://time.com/4648633/taylor-swift-zayn-50-shades-video/) [Zayn Malik.](http://motto.time.com/4706628/zayn-malik-one-direction-anxiety/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4779517/taylor-swift-on-gigi-hadid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4779517/taylor-swift-on-gigi-hadid/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Explains Why She Goes to Gigi Hadid for Life Advice","datePublished":"2017-05-15T21:41:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:39.864Z","description":"The superstar model's good friend shares the reason everybody loves Gigi in a new profile in Harper's Bazaar.","url":"https://time.com/4779517/taylor-swift-on-gigi-hadid/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Taylor Swift","Zayn Malik","Gigi Hadid"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdca3b5c398ff5be1/6988cd5b97cdff22b66b0b52/taylor-gigi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdca3b5c398ff5be1/6988cd5b97cdff22b66b0b52/taylor-gigi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - May 29, 2015","caption":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - May 29, 2015","creditText":"Michael Stewart—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4779517/taylor-swift-on-gigi-hadid/","name":"Taylor Swift Explains Why She Goes to Gigi Hadid for Life Advice"}}]}] ```