Why Fashion Model Karlie Kloss Launched Her Own YouTube Channel

Supermodel Karlie Kloss gets paid (a lot) to project other people's creative visions. Her new YouTube channel is about representing her own.

There are Band-Aids on the backs of Karlie Kloss's ankles. She is wearing a little sparkly ring in the shape of a "K"; a delicate gold necklace around her neck reads "Sister." New York Fashion Week is in full swing when I sit down with the 23-year-old supermodel in YouTube's new Manhattan studios. She has just finished shooting a segment for her recent collaboration with YouTube, a handful of the platform's most popular fashion and beauty vloggers, and Vogue magazine. After wrapping up her video shoots and walking down the runways, she'll still have to do her homework—she just started her freshman year at New York University, where she's taking an introductory writing class, just like everyone else. "I'm a normal 23-year-old girl," she says.

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