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Kendall Jenner

ToribyTori
July 13, 2026
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Kendall Jenner wearing a dark patterned sweater in a W Korea portrait

Kendall Jenner poses for a W Korea portrait in New York in 2017. Photo by Jonathan Emma, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Watermarked by IAM.com®.

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Kendall Nicole Jenner (born November 3, 1995) is an American fashion and runway model, and the test case the industry never stops arguing about: the reality-television teenager who became a legitimate high-fashion booking, then the world’s highest-paid model, then a beauty-contract franchise and a tequila founder. What the camera gets from her is composure. She is the reserved one in a maximal family, and the stillness reads on film: long lines, an unhurried walk, a face that holds a garment’s mood without performing it. Editors have used that quiet for a decade, from bleached-brow severity at Marc Jacobs to trench-coat restraint for Burberry, and the through-line is a model who subtracts rather than adds.

Raised on camera from age eleven in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, she signed with Wilhelmina Models at 14 and spent her teens in catalog and commercial work before The Society Management, the Elite World agency in New York, signed her in November 2013 and rebuilt the career from scratch. The breakthrough came fast: casting director and LOVE editor Katie Grand put her in Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2014 show, Riccardo Tisci cast her in a Givenchy campaign that summer, Karl Lagerfeld walked her at Chanel by fall, and in November 2014 Estée Lauder made her its face with an announcement that called her “the ultimate Instagirl.” That contract said the quiet part out loud: Jenner, alongside Gigi Hadid and Cara Delevingne, marked the moment follower counts became booking currency. By 2017 Forbes named her the world’s highest-paid model, ending Gisele Bündchen’s fifteen-year run at No. 1.

The second decade has been about converting the image into infrastructure: a stack of global beauty ambassadorships anchored by L’Oréal Paris, the 818 Tequila business, a creative directorship at luxury retailer FWRD, and still, when the moment is big enough, the runway. She opened Vogue World: Hollywood in October 2025 in Nicole Kidman’s original Moulin Rouge! costume. The career has taken real hits along the way, from the pulled Pepsi ad to the Fyre Festival settlement, and the profile below reports them, because her durability through them is part of the story.

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Quick Facts

Real Name:Kendall Nicole Jenner
Profession:Fashion model, media personality, and entrepreneur
Born:November 3, 1995
Age:30 (as of 2026)
Birthplace:Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality:American
Height:179 cm (5 ft 10.5 in)
Modeling Type(s):Fashion and runway; campaign and beauty ambassadorships
Discovered / Path In:Signed by Wilhelmina Models at 14 (July 2009) off her Keeping Up with the Kardashians visibility; relaunched in high fashion after signing with The Society Management in November 2013
Runway Debut:2011, New York (Sherri Hill Spring/Summer 2012); high-fashion debut Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2014
Agency / Representation:The Society Management (Elite World), New York; business and media management through Jenner Communications (Kris Jenner)
Known For:The Instagirl-era supermodel who converted reality-TV fame into runway and beauty-contract legitimacy; Forbes‘ world’s highest-paid model in 2017 and 2018
Notable Campaigns & Covers:Vogue US, September 2016; Estée Lauder ambassadorship (2014); Calvin Klein Jeans #mycalvins (2015); L’Oréal Paris global ambassadorship (2023 to present); Emporio Armani Power of You fragrance (2026); Burberry 170th anniversary trench campaign (2026)
Awards:Fashion Icon of the Decade, The Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards (2017); Teen Choice Award for Choice Model (2015, 2016); Forbes 30 Under 30, Art & Style (2024)
Zodiac Sign:Scorpio
Relationship:Private; no publicly confirmed relationship
Years Active:2009 to present
Kendall Jenner posing on the red carpet at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Kendall Jenner attends the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Photo by Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Kendall Jenner posing on a studio floor for the Stuart Weitzman Fall 2019 campaign
Kendall Jenner appears in the Stuart Weitzman Fall 2019 campaign. Photo by LightSpace Studios, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Kendall Jenner seated with a plush sloth during an Allure video
Kendall Jenner appears in an Allure video feature in 2020. Photo by okok, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Kendall Jenner seated in gray knitwear and black leggings for an Adanola campaign
Kendall Jenner appears in an Adanola campaign released in 2025. Photo by Adanola, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Early Life & Education

Kendall Nicole Jenner was born on November 3, 1995, in Los Angeles, California, to Kris Jenner, the television personality and manager who would build the family into a media business, and Caitlyn Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion then known as Bruce. Her middle name honors Nicole Brown Simpson, Kris’ closest friend, who was killed the year before Kendall was born. She grew up in Calabasas with her younger sister Kylie and a household of older half-siblings, and from age eleven her childhood ran on camera: Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered on E! in October 2007 and filmed her adolescence for the next fourteen years. She attended Sierra Canyon School before switching to homeschooling to accommodate work, and graduated in 2014. Away from set she rode competitively; horses remain the most consistent off-duty fact of her life.

The path into modeling started conventionally enough for the era’s commercial market. Wilhelmina Models signed her on July 12, 2009, at 14, and her first booking followed that December: Forever 21’s Rocker Babes with a Twist campaign. The Wilhelmina years produced teen-market work, formalwear runways for Sherri Hill beginning with the designer’s Spring/Summer 2012 show in New York, a March 2012 Teen Vogue cover shared with Kylie, and a walk in The Heart Truth’s Red Dress Collection charity show in 2013. It was steady work, and it was also a ceiling: the fashion establishment filed her under reality television, and she has said in interviews, including a 2019 conversation with Vogue Australia, that the surname made castings harder rather than easier, forcing her to prove the bookings were earned.

The relaunch was deliberate. In November 2013, days after she turned 18, The Society Management, the New York agency under the Elite World umbrella, signed her and repositioned her for the editorial market, for a time under the single name Kendall to mute the television association. Within three months, casting director and LOVE editor Katie Grand put her in Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2014 show, and the teenager who had walked prom-dress runways was suddenly opening fashion month conversations. The scouting story here is not a street discovery; it is a strategy, executed by a family that understood media and an agency that understood fashion, and it worked faster than either side predicted.

Career Highlights and Milestones

The Marc Jacobs show on February 13, 2014, is the hinge. Grand cast her with bleached brows, a blunt bob wig, and a sheer knit top, a styling decision that erased the E! familiarity in a single pass and told the industry to look again. Backstage she told Into the Gloss it was her first real runway show and she had been practicing; within a month she had walked Givenchy in Paris for Riccardo Tisci, the house’s then-creative director and an early champion, who also cast her in Givenchy’s Fall 2014 campaign, her first for a major house. By September she was on Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld runway at the feminist-rally Spring 2015 show and at the house’s Métiers d’Art in Salzburg, and Grand’s LOVE had put her on its August 2014 cover and crowned her the It Girl of the season. The velocity was the story: two seasons from reality-TV liability to fashion-month fixture.

The contracts followed the runways, and they rewrote the economics. Estée Lauder signed her in November 2014, with global brand president Jane Hertzmark Hudis calling her “the ultimate Instagirl” and citing her social reach as the point of the deal, an unusually candid admission that follower counts had become card currency. Calvin Klein Jeans made her the face of its #mycalvins denim series in March 2015, placing her in the lineage of Brooke Shields and Kate Moss. She debuted at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2015, earned wings in Paris in 2016, sat out 2017 under a non-compete in her La Perla global ambassadorship, and returned in 2018. The September 2016 issue of American Vogue, shot by the duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and billed as “The Face That Launched a Billion Likes,” gave her the industry’s most contested cover real estate; Forbes made the earnings case official in November 2017, ranking her the world’s highest-paid model at 22 million dollars, ending Gisele Bündchen’s run at No. 1 since 2002, and repeating the ranking in 2018 at 22.5 million.

Fashion is a churn business, and her file includes the churn. Pepsi’s Jump In spot, released April 4, 2017, cast her resolving a protest by handing a police officer a soda; the backlash was immediate, Pepsi pulled the ad within a day and apologized, including “for putting Kendall Jenner in this position,” and she later addressed her regret on her family’s show. A single paid Instagram post promoting Fyre Festival in January 2017, for a reported 275,000 dollar fee, ended in a 90,000 dollar bankruptcy settlement in 2020, a case now taught as an influencer-disclosure cautionary tale. A 2018 LOVE interview in which she described being selective about shows drew public criticism from working models who read it as dismissive of the job; she said the quote was taken out of context. The Daily Front Row’s decision to hand her its Fashion Icon of the Decade award in September 2017 split the industry loudly enough that the debate became part of the honor’s record. None of it stalled the bookings, which is its own data point about where the market had moved.

The current chapter is the model-mogul conversion the vertical exists to cover, and hers runs wider than most. 818 Tequila, launched in May 2021 and named for her home area code, has collected more than 30 international spirits distinctions and backs sustainability programs through 1% for the Planet and the S.A.C.R.E.D. partnership in Jalisco. She became FWRD’s creative director in September 2021 and a L’Oréal Paris global ambassador in July 2023, closing the brand’s Le Défilé runway at Paris Fashion Week in September 2025 and fronting its Devil Wears Prada 2 tie-in spot at the 2026 Oscars. January 2026 added the Emporio Armani global fragrance ambassadorship for Power of You; March 2026 put her in Tim Walker’s black-and-white cast for Burberry’s 170th-anniversary trench campaign alongside Kate Moss; and mid-2026 made her Korean skincare brand Anua’s first global ambassador. She still walks when the moment is big enough, opening Vogue World: Hollywood in October 2025, and she covered American Vogue again that month, jointly with Gigi Hadid, two Instagirls auditing their own era.

Selected Career Highlights

  • Signed by Wilhelmina Models at 14; first campaign, Forever 21’s Rocker Babes with a Twist (2009)
  • Teen Vogue cover with sister Kylie Jenner, March 2012, her first major magazine cover (2012)
  • Signed with The Society Management (Elite World), New York, relaunching the career in high fashion (2013)
  • High-fashion runway debut at Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2014, cast by Katie Grand, in bleached brows and a blunt bob (2014)
  • First major house campaign, Givenchy Fall/Winter 2014, cast by Riccardo Tisci; Paris runway debut for the house the same year (2014)
  • First LOVE cover, August 2014, with editor Katie Grand naming her the It Girl of the season (2014)
  • Signed as an Estée Lauder global face at 18, announced as “the ultimate Instagirl” (2014)
  • Face of Calvin Klein Jeans’ #mycalvins denim series, following Brooke Shields and Kate Moss (2015)
  • Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show debut; returned with wings in Paris in 2016 and again in 2018 (2015)
  • First American Vogue monthly cover, the September 2016 issue, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott (2016)
  • Named the world’s highest-paid model by Forbes at 22 million dollars, ending Gisele Bündchen’s 15-year run; repeated at No. 1 in 2018 (2017)
  • Launched 818 Tequila, the Jalisco-sourced brand named for her home area code, and was appointed creative director of luxury e-tailer FWRD in the same year (2021)
  • Named a L’Oréal Paris global ambassador; closed the brand’s Le Défilé show at Paris Fashion Week in 2025 (2023)
  • Opened Vogue World: Hollywood in Nicole Kidman’s original Moulin Rouge! costume, and covered American Vogue jointly with Gigi Hadid (2025)
  • Named Emporio Armani’s global fragrance ambassador and cast in Burberry’s 170th-anniversary trench campaign shot by Tim Walker (2026)

Major Recognition

  • Fashion Icon of the Decade, The Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards (2017), an honor whose announcement itself became an industry debate
  • Teen Choice Award for Choice Model, won in consecutive years (2015, 2016)
  • Breakout Star, Women (Readers’ Choice), Models.com MDX Model of the Year Awards (2014)
  • Named among Time magazine’s 30 Most Influential Teens in consecutive years (2014, 2015)
  • Icon of the Year, Revolve Awards (2018)
  • Forbes 30 Under 30, Art & Style category (2024)

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Awards and Accolades

Year Award Category Context Result
2013 Teen Choice Award Choice TV: Female Reality/Variety Star Shared with the Keeping Up with the Kardashians cast Won
2014 Models.com MDX Model of the Year Awards Breakout Star: Women (Readers’ Choice) Voted by the industry site’s readership in her breakout season Won
2014 Time 30 Most Influential Teens Named alongside sister Kylie Jenner Selected
2014 Teen Choice Award Choice TV Personality: Female Shared nomination with the KUWTK cast Nominated
2015 Teen Choice Award Choice Model Won over Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, and Karlie Kloss Won
2015 Time 30 Most Influential Teens Consecutive-year selection Selected
2015 Lovie Awards Internet Viral Video For the Mean Girls-inspired Burn Book video made with Dazed Shortlisted
2016 Teen Choice Award Choice Model Consecutive-year win Won
2016 Webby Awards Celebrity/Fan Website For KendallJ.com, her subscription app and site Nominated
2017 Fashion Media Awards (The Daily Front Row) Fashion Icon of the Decade Presented September 8, 2017, at New York Fashion Week; the choice drew public industry criticism, reported at the time Awarded
2018 Revolve Awards Icon of the Year Retailer-hosted industry awards Awarded
2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style Selected for the annual list Selected

Selected Campaigns & Covers

Year(s) Campaign / Cover Brand / Publication Type Notes
2009 Rocker Babes with a Twist Forever 21 Campaign The first professional booking, at 14, a month into her Wilhelmina contract; the commercial-market baseline the later career is measured against.
2012 Teen Vogue cover, March 2012 Teen Vogue Cover Shared with Kylie Jenner; the teen-market ceiling before the Society relaunch.
2014 Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2014, New York Marc Jacobs Runway The high-fashion debut. Cast by Katie Grand; the bleached brows and blunt bob were the styling reset that made the industry look again.
2014 Givenchy Fall/Winter 2014 campaign Givenchy Campaign Riccardo Tisci’s endorsement made it official; her first major house campaign, in the same year as her Paris runway debut for the house.
2014 LOVE cover, August 2014 LOVE Cover Katie Grand’s magazine crowned the season’s It Girl; LOVE‘s advent calendars kept the relationship running for years.
2014 Estée Lauder ambassadorship Estée Lauder Ambassadorship Signed at 18 in November 2014 as “the ultimate Instagirl”; fronted Modern Muse Le Rouge and The Estée Edit before that line was discontinued. The contract that priced social reach into beauty deals.
2015, 2024 #mycalvins denim series; Fall 2024 campaign Calvin Klein Campaign The 2015 denim contract placed her in the Shields-and-Moss lineage; the gap in the years column is real, and the 2024 return ran opposite Alexander Skarsgård.
2015–2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (2015, 2016, 2018) Victoria’s Secret Runway Debut 2015; wings in Paris 2016; the 2017 gap was contractual, not editorial (see La Perla below); returned 2018 for the show’s final broadcast era.
2016 Vogue US cover, September 2016 Vogue US Cover Her first monthly American Vogue cover, and the September issue at that. Shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott; billed as “The Face That Launched a Billion Likes.”
2017 La Perla global ambassadorship La Perla Ambassadorship The luxury lingerie contract whose non-compete pulled her out of the 2017 Victoria’s Secret show, a tidy illustration of contracts outranking runways.
2023 Gucci Valigeria campaign Gucci Campaign The luggage campaign shot with Bad Bunny in October 2023, one of the era’s more discussed celebrity-couple castings.
2023–present L’Oréal Paris global ambassadorship L’Oréal Paris Ambassadorship Announced July 2023 (“a true full-circle moment,” per her statement); she closed Le Défilé at Paris Fashion Week in September 2025 and co-starred in the brand’s Devil Wears Prada 2 Oscars spot in March 2026.
2025 Vogue US cover, October 2025 Vogue US Cover Joint cover with Gigi Hadid, shot by Lachlan Bailey at a Wyoming ranch; two definitive Instagirls a decade into the era they named.
2026 Power of You eau de parfum Emporio Armani Fragrance Named global fragrance ambassador in January 2026; debut campaign launched February 2026.
2026 The Trench, Portraits of an Icon (170th anniversary) Burberry Campaign Shot by Tim Walker in black and white, in a 23-star cast that also includes Kate Moss; she styled the heritage trench as a dress.

Agency & Representation History

Years Agency / Representation Market(s) Notes
2009–2013 Wilhelmina Models Los Angeles; US commercial market Signed July 12, 2009, at 14. The commercial-and-print years: Forever 21, Sherri Hill formalwear runways, teen covers. Reported at the time as a career built on television visibility; the agency’s market could not move her into editorial.
2013–present The Society Management (Elite World) New York; worldwide Signed November 2013, days after her 18th birthday, in the move reported by Fashionista as the step toward a legitimate high-fashion career. The agency briefly booked her under the single name Kendall and engineered the 2014 breakout; remains her agency of record, booking her worldwide directly rather than through the traditional market-agency ladder.
2007–present Jenner Communications (Kris Jenner, manager) Worldwide; television, business, and media The family management company handles the television, endorsement, and business side; the two-track structure (mother agency for fashion, family office for everything else) is the career’s defining representation arrangement.

Business & Media Ventures

Years Venture / Production Role Notes
2015–present Kendall + Kylie Co-founder The contemporary apparel and footwear line with Kylie Jenner, preceded by PacSun (2013) and Madden Girl (2014) collaborations and a 2016 mobile game.
2019–present Moon Oral Care Partner and investor The oral-beauty brand partnership that produced her co-created teeth-whitening pen.
2021–present 818 Tequila Founder Launched May 2021; Jalisco-sourced and named for her home area code. The brand reports more than 30 international spirits distinctions and backs 1% for the Planet and the S.A.C.R.E.D. program.
2021–present FWRD Creative director Appointed September 2021 at the Revolve-owned luxury e-tailer; has released curated edits and opened a Los Angeles pop-up.

Net Worth, Income, & Lifestyle

Net Worth (2026)Public estimates vary widely. Kendall Jenner has not disclosed a verified net worth figure. Treat numbers found online as unconfirmed.
Income SourcesBeauty and fragrance ambassadorships, fashion campaigns and selective runway fees, television (The Kardashians on Hulu), the 818 Tequila business, the FWRD creative directorship, and paid social media, where her reach commands rates most editorial work cannot match.
Contracts & Brand PartnershipsThe contract stack is the career’s engine: Estée Lauder (2014), Calvin Klein (2015, 2024), La Perla (2017), Adidas (2017), L’Oréal Paris (2023 to present), Emporio Armani fragrance (2026), Therabody, and Anua (2026). Forbes reported earnings of 22 million dollars in 2017 and 22.5 million in 2018, ranking her the world’s highest-paid model both years; a major cover pays a token fee by comparison, and her career is the era’s clearest proof of it.
Properties & AssetsMost detailed financial and property information is kept private. Reliable public documentation is limited.
LifestyleSplits time between Los Angeles and the fashion calendar, keeps horses and rides seriously, and has spoken in her own words about managing anxiety, fronting a Vogue mental-health video series in 2021. The public register is deliberately quieter than the family brand.

Social Media & Online Presence

InstagramOfficial account: @kendalljenner (verified); roughly 278 million followers as of mid-2026, the most-followed model on the platform. Instagram is the career’s second stage: Estée Lauder signed her for it in 2014, and it remains part of her booking economics.
TikTokOfficial account: @kendalljenner (verified); maintained but significantly less active than her Instagram.
X (Twitter)Official account: @KendallJenner (verified); used sparingly in recent years.
FacebookPublic page at facebook.com/KendallJenner.
YouTubeNo actively maintained official channel; her video presence runs through brand and publisher channels such as Vogue and L’Oréal Paris.
Agency ProfileOfficial board page at The Society Management.
Official WebsiteNo standing personal site; her subscription app and KendallJ.com closed in 2019. Her brand site is drink818.com for 818 Tequila.

NOTE: In addition to any official accounts listed above, many fan-run pages, appreciation accounts, and fashion-history accounts exist across platforms. These are not confirmed to be affiliated with Kendall Jenner. Links and usernames can change at any time.

Trivia & Lesser-Known Facts

  • Her middle name, Nicole, is a tribute to Nicole Brown Simpson, her mother Kris Jenner’s best friend, who was killed in 1994, the year before Kendall was born.
  • Madame Tussauds unveiled her wax figure alongside Cara Delevingne’s for its London Fashion Week Experience in February 2016; the museum said around 20 artists spent six months on each figure. A second figure stands in the New York museum’s runway zone.
  • Google named her the world’s second-most-searched model in 2014, and Tumblr named her its most-reblogged model of 2015, both before her first American Vogue cover existed.
  • 818 Tequila is named for the San Fernando Valley area code of her childhood; the brand reportedly beat its UK launch sales target by 150 percent and has poured at Coachella.
  • In 2015 she answered her online critics with a Mean Girls-style Burn Book parody video made with Dazed, which was shortlisted for a Lovie Award; the magazine’s editors had ranked her a top creative to watch that year.
  • She is a lifelong equestrian who competed in horse shows as a child and still rides; she has said the stables are where she goes to get away from the rest of the job.

Quotes

“It’s my first runway show, so I’ve been practicing.”

– Kendall Jenner, backstage at Marc Jacobs Fall 2014, Into the Gloss (2014)

“I’m excited to be back. We’re all together again.”

– Kendall Jenner, on returning to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, People (2018)

“I’m honored to be part of a new sisterhood of strong, powerful women.”

– Kendall Jenner, L’Oréal Paris ambassadorship statement, reported by The Hollywood Reporter (2023)

“We’re sisters more than we’re friends.”

– Kendall Jenner, on Gigi Hadid, Vogue, October 2025 cover story

“I swear to God, I’m going to stop everything and just design homes.”

– Kendall Jenner, Vogue, October 2025 cover story

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: What is Kendall Jenner’s age?
A: She was born on November 3, 1995, making her 30 years old as of 2026.

Q: What is Kendall Jenner best known for?
A: As a model, for the Instagirl-era breakout that took her from Keeping Up with the Kardashians to Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, and Chanel runways in 2014, an Estée Lauder contract at 18, the September 2016 cover of American Vogue, and Forbes‘ world’s highest-paid model ranking in 2017 and 2018. Beyond modeling, for The Kardashians on Hulu and for founding 818 Tequila.

Q: Which agency represents Kendall Jenner?
A: The Society Management in New York, part of Elite World, which has represented her since November 2013. Her television and business affairs are managed by Jenner Communications, her mother Kris Jenner’s company.

Q: How was Kendall Jenner discovered?
A: She was not street-scouted; she was signed by Wilhelmina Models at 14 in 2009 on the visibility of her family’s television show, worked the commercial market as a teenager, and was strategically relaunched into high fashion when The Society Management signed her in late 2013.

Q: Is Kendall Jenner still modeling?
A: Yes, selectively. She now concentrates on major beauty and fashion contracts (L’Oréal Paris, Emporio Armani, Burberry) and headline runway moments such as opening Vogue World: Hollywood in 2025 and closing L’Oréal’s Le Défilé at Paris Fashion Week, rather than full show seasons.

Q: What are Kendall Jenner’s most famous campaigns and covers?
A: The Estée Lauder ambassadorship (2014), Calvin Klein’s #mycalvins denim series (2015), the September 2016 American Vogue cover, the Victoria’s Secret shows of 2015 to 2018, the Gucci Valigeria campaign with Bad Bunny (2023), her ongoing L’Oréal Paris work, and Burberry’s 170th-anniversary trench campaign shot by Tim Walker (2026).

Q: Does Kendall Jenner have official social media?
A: Yes. Her verified Instagram, @kendalljenner, has roughly 278 million followers and is the anchor of her online presence, with verified but quieter accounts on TikTok and X.

Upcoming Campaigns & Projects

  • Anua global ambassadorship (Anua, announced June 2026): Campaign imagery for the Korean skincare brand is scheduled to roll out following her appointment as its first global ambassador, per WWD; timing subject to change until confirmed by the brand.
  • Emporio Armani Power of You campaign flighting (Emporio Armani / L’Oréal, through 2026): The fragrance campaign that launched in February 2026 is announced to continue across the year; treat placements as subject to change.
  • Burberry 170th-anniversary program (Burberry, 2026): The house has said the trench campaign is the first in a series of anniversary events and moments; her further involvement has not been announced and should not be assumed.
  • The Kardashians (Hulu / Disney+): She continues to appear in the family’s series, with new episodes announced by the platform; scheduling subject to change.

Interviews & Features

  • Into the Gloss, “Kendall Jenner, Model” (2014), the backstage interview from her Marc Jacobs debut, and the best primary document of the career’s hinge moment.
  • The Hollywood Reporter, “8 Biggest Kendall Jenner Fashion Milestones” (2016), a milestone-by-milestone account of the climb to the September Vogue cover.
  • Forbes, “Highest-Paid Models 2017: Kendall Jenner Takes Crown From Gisele With $22M Year” (2017), the earnings report that made the Instagirl economy official.
  • The Fashion Law, “Kendall Jenner to Take Home the Daily Front Row’s ‘Fashion Icon of the Decade’ Award” (2017), a clear-eyed account of the industry argument her biggest honor set off.
  • WWD, “EXCLUSIVE: Kendall Jenner Named First Global Ambassador for K-beauty Brand Anua” (2026), the trade report on the newest addition to her ambassador stack.

Public Appearances & Events

  • Met Gala 2026 (May 4, 2026): Jenner attended the “Costume Art” gala in New York, continuing a Met run that has included the archival 1999 Givenchy by Alexander McQueen gown in 2024 and a tailored Torishéju suit in 2025.
  • Coachella (April 2026): She appeared at the festival in Indio, California, where 818 Tequila has been a fixture of the festival economy since the brand’s launch.
  • L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth 20th Anniversary (December 2, 2025): She attended the philanthropy program’s anniversary event at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.
  • Vogue World: Hollywood (October 26, 2025): She opened the runway spectacle at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, walking in Nicole Kidman’s original Moulin Rouge! costume.
  • L’Oréal Paris Le Défilé (September 29, 2025): She closed the brand’s public runway show during fashion week in Paris, the ambassador role and the runway career meeting in one booking.
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