Gigi Hadid Is Pretty Much Naked In Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue

Gigi Hadid's bustling modeling career requires her to sometimes wear elaborate, intricately designed clothing. Other times, it requires her to wear basically nothing at all.

Released smack dab in the middle of New York Fashion Week, her extensive spread in the highly anticipated 2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue finds her doing the latter juxtaposed against the former. So far this season she's rocked the runway for for Diane Von Furstenberg, Rihanna and Tommy Hilfiger, to name a few.

But in the glossy, Hadid is wearing what you could really only loosely term swimsuits, save for one slightly more covered-up look that gave us major flashbacks to a photo of Vendela Kirsebom from 1993:

Incidentally, Hadid revealed to SI in a video that the white one-piece was her favorite look of the bunch. But perhaps that's because it's the only one that wouldn't guarantee a wardrobe malfunction at the slightest wave or gust of wind?

Click here to see many more dreamy photos of Hadid from the issue, and be sure to pick up your copy, on sale now.

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