When you know, you know . And Bella Hadid was well aware from an early age that she had an innate sense of style. Even before she walked her first runway for Desigual at New York Fashion Week in 2014, the industrious, punctual, never-missed-a-day-of-work daughter of immigrants Yolanda Hadid and Mohamed Hadid was using her earnings from her $7-an-hour juice shop job to scour the Rose Bowl flea market for vintage tees, plaid tees and rare Betsey Johnson finds.
"I’m dead-on," the middle sister to fellow models Gigi Hadid and Anwar Hadid explained in a 2022 Vogue cover profile . "I know what I like. I always have, since I was young.
And I’ve never drifted." Sometimes that might mean strutting through the streets of New York City in leather on leather on leather. More often these days, it's rocking some manner of ten-gallon hat in Texas where she spends most of her time with cowboy boyfriend Adan Banuelos .
But no matter if she's donning a men's cummerbund as a top to catch a fashion show in Paris or climbing the red-carpeted steps at the Cannes Film Festival in sheer Saint Laurent , she's grown accustomed to turning heads. “I look outside and I see a hundred people dressed exactly like me," she noted to Vogue , "just because of what Instagram is.” And while her 61 million IG followers likely don't have the same access to couture she's received after a decade in the business, Bella's ability to pair, say, boxer briefs, a graphic tee, an oversized racing jacket and Ugg plat.
