Karlie Kloss on Dancing Ballet, Her Prom Date, and Being a Chameleon | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, cover model Karlie Kloss talks about her first ever photoshoot - with photographer Arthur Elgort (father of Ansel Elgort), being a whole foot taller than her prom date, dancing ballet for Carine Roitfeld and why sometimes she really doesn't understand fashion. Marc Jacobs has named a bag for Kloss. “Let’s be honest,” says Kloss. “I think it’s the fact that I’m eight inches above the average person walking down the street. I’m somewhat in my own cloud.” At 19, she already knows how to be disarmingly self-deprecating, but yes, let’s be honest, it’s not just her meteorological height that attracts attention. Kloss also happens to have the face of a fairy, with a small constellation of freckles on her right cheek, and the kinetic effervescence of a sprite. When Kloss was growing up in St. Louis, the discipline of ballet training provided a positive charge for her lightning-bolt limbs. “You learn to control every ­aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails,” she says. “And that is how you tell a story, through movement.” Her first shoot in New York, at 14, was with Arthur Elgort, who photographed her doing a split on a ballet bar. She might look like a living line drawing—one encased in custom-made 3x1 pants, the first jeans she’s ever had that actually touch the ground—but it took Kloss a long time to “own it,” she says. “My sisters have always been these gorgeous glamazons, and I’m, like, this tall skinny stick in