Gigi Hadid turned a page in her friend Taylor Swift’s Ellas Tour playbook at the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
On October 15, Hadid, 29, returned to the Victoria’s Secret runway for the first time since 2018. The model opened the show by appearing on stage wearing a pink silk dress with shorts and a plunging neckline. By oversized pink wings.
While walking down the runway, she imitated Swift’s famous waves, and when she reached the end, Hadid stopped, held one arm straight in the air, and raised her hand, wrist slightly pointing toward the sky. It was a truly serendipitous pose that would become Swift’s signature move on her Ellas tour.
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The Grammy Award winner, 34, has struck the same pose at many stops on her record-breaking world tour. The pointy hand movement is driven solely by her love of heart-hand moments and the occasional archer pose, an homage to her signature move performed on the field by her NFL boyfriend, Travis Kelce. It’s covered up.
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Ahead of the show, Hadid told Entertainment Tonight that she didn’t expect her friend of more than 10 years to come see her in person on Tuesday night, but that she was happy to help Swift prepare for her return to Victoria’s Secret. He also revealed that he gave it to him. Runway.
Hadid teased that there was “something new on the runway,” at least for her, and that her pop star friends helped make the moment happen.
“There are aspects of this that I was trained on during Taylor’s tour,” she explained. “At one rehearsal, she said, ‘I’m going to show you how to do this.’ And we did that, and we’re using it tonight.”
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The fashion designer also said that while Swift and her boyfriend were likely spending some quality time together before Kelce returned to her soccer schedule and the “Fortnite” singer returned for the final leg of her tour, she She also said she felt Swift was rooting for her. house.
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Hadid added: “If it’s one more night before he comes back, they’ll probably be cozying up on the couch. That’s just my guess. But I think she’ll be supportive too. I feel that,” he added.
