Despite all the obvious parallels, it is not often that I think I have much in common with the model and influencer Gigi Hadid. It’s true that we are both New Yorkers, that we were both born in April and that we both like the actor Bradley Cooper: she is dating him and I really enjoyed his performance in Silver Linings Playbook . But there, I had thought, the similarities ended.
Then, only yesterday, I was nodding along to an interview Hadid gave to Architectural Digest when something she said leapt out at me like a rodent from a skirting board. Hadid lives just north of SoHo in Manhattan, in a boxy new building with large glass windows: a few years back she reportedly bought.
