Karlie Kloss Covers WSJ Magazine December/January 2022 Digital by Ethan James Green
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Supermodel, philanthropist, new mom and — adoring, best- buddy wife to Joshua Kushner — Karlie Kloss covers the December/January digital covers of WSJ Magazine. Who better than Karlie Kloss to launch the new year of 2022 in these turbulent times.
Karlie is styled by Charlotte Collet wearing a Celine by Hedi Slimane coat on the cover with Salvatore Ferragamo accessories. In the fashion story Karlie wears head-to-toe Gucci, Alaia , Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Loewe, Marc Jacobs, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Tory Burch, vintage Kenzo and more.
Ethan James Green captures the woman who is just getting started for Inside Karlie Kloss’s New Life. In Karlie’s own words: “I wanted to change how I was using my job and my platform as a model.”
Elisa Lipsky-Karasz conducts the interview, which is rich in new thinking about the modeling industry and Karlie’s desire to transform herself yet again by switching modeling agencies, joining The Society, which also represents Amber Valletta, Adut Akech and personalities such as musician Willow Smith and reality star–turned-model Kendall Jenner.
Kloss has invested in W Magazine, as well as in companies including Therabody, Mirror and Reformation.
Kloss now works with Greg Propper, the co-founder of Propper Daley, a strategic social-impact and consulting agency that advises brands and philanthropists, including stars like John Legend. Their joint objective is to develop Karlie and other clients as forces for progressive social change.
Through Propper, Kloss is now connected to philanthropies such as New Profit, an organization that puts together venture philanthropy funds—essentially donations that are granted to social-impact entrepreneurs.
Karlie has openly discussed the reality that after being scooped up at a young age into the modeling industry, she is not formally educated. Now the superstar is working with New Profit on an ambitious new initiative, the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity (PIE), that creates career pathways for nontraditional job candidates via investments in organizations that provide skills training and mentorships. Kloss can relate: “I’m somebody who is not formally educated. I am a student of life.”
AOC has followed the full trajectory of Kloss’s career and social activism, including her Kode With Klossy project —a program Kloss launched in 2015 offering free computer coding camps to female-identifying and nonbinary 13- to 18-year-olds.
This summer 2021, Kode With Klossy awarded 3,000 scholarships to students from 70 countries, and Karlie’s working to expand it further. “It is all interwoven… [even though] to somebody on the outside it might not make sense,” Kloss tells WSJ Magazine, via Zoom from her family’s house in Missouri, The supermodel has traveled to middle America to celebrate her mother’s 60th birthday. Karlie and JOshua’s 7-month-old son, Levi, has made the trip. (He’s inherited his parents’ height. “I know [Levi’s] ready to shoot some hoops,” she says.)
Read more about Karlie’s long and influential friendship with Christy Turlington Burns Inside Karlie Kloss’s New Life at WSJ Magazine. The 90s supermodel earned a bachelor’s degree from NYU in 1999 and later founded a highly-effective maternal health nonprofit, Every Mother Counts.
On a more personal note, motherhood has given Karlie Kloss a new self-appreciation. “I love my body in a way that I never have,” she tells Lipsky-Karasz. “I never imagined that I would have a career [in which] my body would be so intertwined with my success or failure. That’s something that I really don’t like about being a model, but—it’s part of the job. I think it’s really unfortunate that there are still such narrow kinds of ideas [like] you need to be able to fit a sample size. I’m not going to change who I am to fit that.”
Stay tuned while AOC pulls out our extensive writing on Karlie Kloss’s philanthropy and activism and the images of her new WSJ Magazine fashion story. Meanwhile, a decade of Karlie Kloss news and modeling work can be found in our extensive Karlie Kloss AOC Archives.
Anne of Carversville has also followed closely the rise of talented photographer Ethan James Green. People have commented that Karlie’s WSJ Magazine cover could have been shot by Steven Meisel. Green not only posed as a model for the photographer but holds Meisel — along with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon — in very high regard.
In November 2020, Ethan James Green sat down with Vogue Magazine for “We’re at the Beginning of Something Really Great”—Ethan James Green on the Future of Fashion Photography. See his AOC Archives.
