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"It&amp;#39;s hard to feel sorry for someone who is supernaturally long and lean, but Karlie Kloss wants you to know that tall girls have problems, too. Towering over boys in school? Check. Wearing high-water jeans because you can&amp;#39;t find ones that are long enough, or safety-pinning three-sizes-too-big jeans because those are the only ones that are long enough? Double check. After years of being &amp;quot;five-foot-thirteen,&amp;quot; the 20-year-old model has learned to embrace her height. &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s a powerful thing,&amp;quot; she says, perched atop a pair of stilettos that inch her near the seven-foot mark. With the launch of her debut collaboration, Frame Denim Forever Karlie, which features two styles with whopping 40-inch inseams, Karlie isn&amp;#39;t just talking the talk; she&amp;#39;s walking the walk. Calling all Amazons: At last, a jean for you!\n\nWe caught up with Karlie for her take on everything from the perfect pair to her famous haircut. Read on!\n\nYour first professional photo shoot was at the age of 14 for Teen Vogue, and you were already impossibly long and lanky then. Has finding jeans that fit properly been a lifelong issue for you?\n\n I have always been in search of jeans that are long enough, and if I found ones that were long enough, they didn&amp;#39;t fit in the right places. My sisters are tall, but we all have different body types. I used to steal my older sister&amp;#39;s jeans because they were longer, but they&amp;#39;d be like three or four sizes too big. I would fold them in at the waistband, safety pin them, and put a belt on top...and they were still baggy in the butt and the legs! I just complain all the time about being tall. It&amp;#39;s terrible!\n\nHow did the collaboration with Frame Denim come about?\n\n I met co-founders Erik and Jens through friends in the industry. Their brand is so much about finding the perfect size, and that&amp;#39;s something I&amp;#39;ve clearly struggled with. Our mission was just to make a ridiculously long jean with an amazing fit. I wanted jeans that are so long they go on forever, so we made a point of doing it to an extreme length. It&amp;#39;s a 40-inch inseam, which is long even on me, because you can never add length to jeans but you can always take it off! We did two washes and two styles: the skinny and the flare. The flare is amazing because it actually hits the floor, even in heels. The core branding of Frame is this little F stitch on the side, so we gave my collection a little K instead. It&amp;#39;s really subtle. We wanted them to be super simple and chic\u2014the perfect pair of jeans you can wear every day.\n\nWhat did you alter besides the length?\n\n We raised the waistband because tall girls have a longer torso and longer limbs. There&amp;#39;s nothing worse as a girl than feeling like your muffin top is coming out over your jeans. So with these, you feel tucked in and tight in the right places.\n\nHow has the response been thus far?\n\n A lot of girls have already tweeted at me and said, &amp;#39;Karlie, I&amp;#39;m 15, I&amp;#39;m 6-foot-whatever, and this is exactly what I need.&amp;#39; I&amp;#39;m really excited about this project because I feel like it&amp;#39;s like a way to reach out and help other girls who also have this problem. I want girls to be able to embrace their height as an asset as opposed to an insecurity\u2014and still wear heels!\n\nAre your model friends hitting you up for pairs?\n\n Oh, completely. Jourdan Dunn is like, &amp;#39;Oh, Karlie, I better have a pair of these in the mail.&amp;#39; She loves a skinny jean. But it&amp;#39;s not just a model thing. You don&amp;#39;t have to be a model to wear these. They&amp;#39;re for all girls who are big and beautiful. What&amp;#39;s that men&amp;#39;s store called? Big and Tall? Well these jeans are for women who are big and beautiful!\n\nDo you have any denim style icons?\n\n I love the iconic image of Brooke Shields in the Calvin Klein ads from the &amp;#39;80s. Lauren Hutton is another favorite. I like classic American jeans-and-T-shirt girls.\n\nHow do you wear your jeans?\n\n Basically, like that. Classic American, super simple, and super duper chic. It&amp;#39;s all about quality tailoring and fabrics. I feel like, as a girl, you invest in a few things. You invest in great jeans, a great bag, maybe great shoes, and then H&amp;amp;M T-shirts. High and low.\n\nAny denim pet peeves?\n\n I hate muffin top. I definitely hate plumber&amp;#39;s crack. I also hate when jeans look too stiff, like that cardboard feel when the fabric isn&amp;#39;t worn in.\n\nHow many pairs are you keeping for yourself?\n\n Four! One of each design. I&amp;#39;m going to live in them\u2014literally. Even if no one else in the world buys them, I have a great new collection of jeans.\n\nIs there anything else you&amp;#39;d like to try your hand at designing?\n\n What I really would never want to do is put my name on something that I&amp;#39;m not genuine about, which is probably why my projects are kind of all over the place\u2014cookies and then jeans! But those are the things I&amp;#39;m passionate about and the things I know. I know when clothes fit well, and I know a good cookie.\n\nWhat are your summer plans?\n\n I&amp;#39;m really excited because I&amp;#39;ve been looking into taking a course in the summer program at NYU. There are so many different classes that I would love to explore\u2014business, marketing, arts, science. I&amp;#39;m in the application process, but I don&amp;#39;t wanna jinx myself! The thing is is that I love learning. I really love being in an educational environment. So I&amp;#39;m excited to get back into that. It&amp;#39;s just for myself, not for anybody else. Just to be a well-rounded, educated person, and stay challenged, because I need that. I don&amp;#39;t want to quit what I&amp;#39;m doing. I love being able to have a career and have these incredible experiences at a young age, but I also need that intellectual stimulation to keep me motivated and challenged and inspired, and I miss that. So we&amp;#39;ll see...\n\nYou are an inspiring girl, Karlie. On a much more frivolous note, your haircut has gotten a lot of attention. Any plans to grow it, chop it more, dye it blonde, or do anything else crazy to it?\n\n It&amp;#39;s a little shorter now. I cut it again yesterday! It&amp;#39;s funny because with short hair, it grows so fast. It actually lifts in a different way when you cut off even a little bit. But I like having short hair. It&amp;#39;s so much easier and it&amp;#39;s kind of refreshing at this point in my life. The cool thing too that I&amp;#39;m excited about is that Victoria&amp;#39;s Secret has really embraced me and my short hair and recognized that there are so many girls and women across the country who have short hair that are equally as beautiful and sexy and confident and powerful. I want to be an ambassador for that girl. There are a lot of different ways to look and feel beautiful.\n\nShort hair and long jeans. Sounds like Karlie&amp;#39;s found just the right balance.\n\nClick through to see all of Karlie&amp;#39;s Frame Denim collection!__"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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