“I’m 5’9½, and when I started modeling, that was considered tall,” Naomi Campbell once said, reflecting on her early career. Since people typically start to shrink after age 40, it’s possible she was taller in her prime.
Idris Elba kept it casual in blue high-top sneakers, jeans, and a beanie, while Naomi Campbell stunned in a gradient green dress paired with studded black knee-high boots (Credit: James Warren / Photobeat Images / Startraksphoto)
While she’s occasionally claimed to be a bit taller, her confirmed height is approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175.3 cm). She wears a US women’s shoe size 9 and often steps into designer heels that elevate her already statuesque presence.
Naomi Campbell stuns in a textured white gown and chic sunglasses at the Off-White Spring/Summer 2023 show during Paris Fashion Week on September 29, 2022, in Paris, France (Credit: Aurore Marechal / ABACA / INSTARimages / Cover Images)
Naomi Campbell’s Most Memorable Designer Shoes and Fashion Moments
She is one of the best-known and most successful black models of all time and one of the world’s wealthiest models.
On Your Next Shoes, Naomi Campbell can be seen boosting her height in heels by footwear brands such as Schiaparelli, Christian Louboutin, Alaïa, Versace, and Tom Ford.
👠 Explore Naomi Campbell’s Standout Shoe & Fashion Moments:
- 🦶 Naomi Campbell turned Schiaparelli’s surrealist gold-toe sandals into wearable sculpture, pairing the anatomical statement heels with a custom white ensemble while honoring André Leon Talley in New York.
- ✨ At Fashion Rocks 2014, Naomi embraced full-throttle glamour in Versace and metallic Alexandre Birman sandals, combining Swarovski sparkle with delicate strappy heels.
- 🖤 Her head-to-toe Versace moment at Paris Haute Couture Week paired a micro-beaded black dress and matching jacket with razor-sharp pointed-toe pumps.
- 💎 Naomi made two dramatic footwear changes at the 2016 MTV VMAs, moving from glitter-covered leopard pumps to metallic Alaïa laser-cut sandals with her custom Brandon Maxwell looks.
- 👡 She gave off-duty denim a distinctly Alaïa finish while promoting Fashion for Relief, styling jeans, a Chanel jacket, and her charity T-shirt with intricate black cutout sandals.
- 👢 For her Milan collection launch, Naomi went dramatic in embroidered Alaïa knee-high heels, reinforcing the designer relationship that has shaped some of her most memorable footwear moments.
- 🎬 Naomi’s Cannes wardrobe moved effortlessly between Alexander McQueen tailoring, Chanel, and Valentino couture, with sleek stilettos providing the finishing touch to her sharply tailored McQueen tuxedo.
- 🕶️ Celebrating her “NAOMI: In Fashion” exhibition, she personalized an Alexander McQueen runway suit with classic black pointed-toe stilettos instead of the white boots shown on the catwalk.
- 👟 Not every Naomi Campbell shoe moment requires a towering heel—she once traded stilettos for red-striped Adidas Superstar sneakers, bringing a sporty counterpoint to her famously glamorous wardrobe.
Naomi Campbell shows off her striking pedicure in bold Alexander McQueen sandals featuring sculptural heels and gold buckle accents (Credit: Nils Jorgensen / Startraksphoto)
From Towering Genes to the Runway: Naomi Campbell’s Early Modeling Journey
“Grandma was six feet tall, from a farming community in Jamaica,” Campbell told Vogue about her height genes. “I don’t know those families where they put a man at the head. Grandma was the head of our family.”
Naomi Campbell was discovered at 15 by Beth Boldt, head of the Synchro Model Agency, while window-shopping in Covent Garden.
“Suddenly, a woman came up to me and asked if I’d ever thought of modeling. It was Beth Boldt, head of the Synchro agency. My immediate reaction was surprise and excitement,” Campbell told The Guardian.
“But when I told my mum, she wasn’t into the idea at all. We’d all heard horror stories of girls being approached, paying huge amounts of money to have pictures taken and then getting nowhere. My mum wanted me to stay on at school and finish my exams.”
Naomi Campbell walks the runway during Tod’s Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 fashion show as part of the Milan Fashion Week on September 23, 2022, in Milan, Italy (Credit: Ik Aldama / DPA / Cover Images)
Campbell’s influence has also extended well beyond the runway. Through Fashion for Relief, the charity initiative she founded in 2005, she brought the fashion industry together to raise money for humanitarian causes—setting the stage for one particularly memorable London appearance.
Naomi Campbell Shines in Burberry Prorsum Dress at Fashion for Relief Pop-Up in London
Naomi Campbell in a chiffon ombre dress from the Burberry Prorsum Resort 2015 collection (Credit: Lexi Jones / WENN / Euan Cherry)
In November 2014, Naomi Campbell attended the opening of a Fashion for Relief Pop-Up Shop at Westfield London, a shopping center in London.
An exclusive collection of designer items was made available for one week, and all proceeds were donated to the DEC Ebola Crisis Appeal.
Naomi Campbell at the “Fashion for Relief”Pop-Up Launch held at Westfield London in London, England, on November 27, 2014 (Credit: Lexi Jones / WENN)
The statuesque beauty donned a chiffon ombre dress from the Burberry Prorsum Resort 2015 collection featuring a plunging neckline.
While you’d typically expect a dress like this paired with sandals or pumps, Naomi opted for a pair of Alaïa whipstitch boots.
Naomi Campbell’s Alaïa whipstitch boots (Credit: WENN / Euan Cherry)
Her unexpected choice of Alaïa whipstitch boots added an edge to the soft chiffon—proof that Naomi never follows the expected fashion formula.