
“When I first started, I thought of it as this incredible after-school hobby,” says Kloss, who was typically chaperoned by a family member-or even once, her high school English teacher-on her early trips.

It wasn’t so different from this year’s Met Gala, when Kloss wore a red Carolina Herrera minidress with a train and ruffled sleeves. At her senior prom, she chose a deep orange Dior dress and stood head and shoulders above her date (Kloss is 6 feet 2 inches), a distinction that was noted by the St. Her freshman year at Missouri’s Webster Groves High School, she walked in a Calvin Klein show the same month school started. “You tell a story without words,” says Kloss, who began modeling the summer before seventh grade when a scout spotted her at a local mall.
