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Gabriel Aubry
Gabriel Aubry was born on January 4, 1976 in a beautiful
city Montreal, Canada. He is the ultra-elegant French
Canadian representing Hugo Boss and Massimo Dutti.
The combination of elegance and masculinity has become
the trademark of Gabriel Aubry in the world of fashion.
As one of the top male models in the business, this
proud Canadian radiates his glamour and elegance in many
of his works. Perhaps, this quality is the essence that
captivates his fans worldwide, and drives designers
repeatedly to seek his image in representing their
products, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger and many more.
Gabriel Aubrey is a native of Montreal Canada, where
he was born and raised. Gabriel was discovered when He
was approached by a stylist in a night club. His
following exposure on local fashion news spreads lead to
his early assignments with Calvin Klein, Versace, Exte
and a few others, but Gabriel didn't achieved his
supermodel status untill the arrival of the new
millenium, when he was exclusively featurd in Hugo Boss
ad campaigns.
On the runways, he is one of the favorites of
Versace, Cerruti and Ralph Lauren, and among others. He
established the fact that Canadians can and will be
known as one of the most important supplier of the best
male models for the fashion industry, joined by such
names as Phil Missig, Joel McMillan and Robert Perovich
to prove just that.
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Tyson Beckford
Born December 19, 1970 in Bronx, New York. He is
a supermodel and actor, the son of a Jamaican father and
a mixed (Jamaican/Chinese-American) mother. He is known
worldwide for his muscular physique, facial structure,
and tattoos; and also as the lead model for Ralph
Lauren. He is also reported to be one of the
highest-paid and richest male supermodels in the world.
In his early life, Beckford was a gang member
and was involved in crime, including the sale and
distribution of illegal narcotics. In 1991, he was
recruited to hip hop magazine The Source by a talent
scout who had come across him by chance in a New York
park. In 1993, Beckford was recruited by Ralph Lauren as
the front model for the company's Polo line of male
sportswear. Beckford's fame continued to rise, and he
was named "Man of the Year" in 1995 by VH1, as well as
one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by
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Ludovico
Benazzo
Ludovico
was born and raised in Torino, Italy. He was
22-years-old when a friend took pictures of him and
showed them to fashion photographer, Mario Testino
in Paris. Mario told Ludovico that he "summarized
the essence of male beauty." Almost immediately,
Ludovico was booked for the worldwide Gucci
campaign. Next, he appeared in two Guess campaigns
in 1997, and these two campaigns established his
fame and top model status in the industry.
Ludovico Benazzo has been in the business for over
ten years. In his twenties, Ludovico’s boyish good
looks landed him blockbuster campaigns for Gucci and
Guess. Now, Ludovico is in his thirties and his
handsome, mature family man image is still among the
most sought-after. Besides being a regular on
runways for top designers, he is the face of Ralph
Lauren.
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Will
Chalker
Hailing
from East Sussex, England, Will Chalker was working
on a construction site before he became a model in
2000. Thanks to a friend who took some test shots of
him to show round the agencies, Will Chalker had a
career changing opportunity. Since then, Will
Chalker has been modelling on the men's catwalks for
nine seasons.
There
was a tough beginning in the first two years in
terms of his financial situation and the works
available. Once he learned the ropes of business,
Will Chalker was able to be versitile to meet the
demands of different disigners. He has been
successfully modelling full-time for the past two
and a half years.
Chalker's look become popular
since 2003 because of the move in menswear towards
dressing up. Designers prefer recognizable faces in
their shows to add some empathy to the designs.
Despite Will Chalker's growing popularity in fashion
today, there has been no public buzz about him. But
we all know that he is a well deserving male
supermodel on the rise.
Will Chalker is in demand because he seems to
tie in with the current mood in menswear: handsome
but gentlemanly, well built and healthy, he marks a
move away from fashion's drawn-out obsession with
boyish, sallow androgyny. His success is more than
just a number of appearances in major designers'
campains, which includes YSL, Paul Smith and Perry
Ellis, but the catwalk tasks that Will Chalker was
given - openning and closing for Gucci, John
Galliano's finishing tableau, Athena-poster look for
D&G, and walking along Sonia Rykiel during her show.
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Travis Fimmel
Fimmel grew up on a farm outside of Echuca,
Victoria, Australia as the youngest of three brothers.
At the age of 18, Fimmel moved to Melbourne, Victoria to
play football and study project management at RMIT
University. However, his football career was cut short
by a broken leg. In 1998, Fimmel was approached by
Matthew Anderson, a booker from Chadwick Model
Management at a Melbourne gym with an offer to join the
agency as a model. After spending 2 years in London,
England, he then decided to move to the United States.
Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, California,
Fimmel approached a modelling agency and was immediately
booked for work.
After his successful audition with Calvin Klein
executives, the "Crave" Calvin Klein campaign made
Fimmel the second model since Kate Moss to be given an
exclusive six-figure contract with Calvin Klein.
Fimmel's relatively slender physique broke out of the
mold set by Calvin Klein's previous hard-body
poster-boys like Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Sabato Jr., and
Michael Bergin. He also appeared in two music videos of
Jennifer Lopez and Janet Jackson.d Janet Jackson.
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Alex
Lundqvist
Alex
Lundqvist was born on April 14, 1972. He is a
self-assured Swede, alluring, accomplished and
considerate. He's also one of the top male models in
the world, remembered for his unforgettable GUESS
advertising images.
Alex had a Swedish liberal idyllic childhood which
came abruptly to an end at eighteen with the
obligatory one-year national service in Sweden's
army. After the army, he studied computer design and
was all set for the advertising world when a
girlfriend suggested he should be a model. So, with
a chin covered with stubble, he went out to have
some test shots taken. In the summer of '94, he met
photographer Bruce Weber, and Sean Patterson, a
Wilhelmina agent, who tracked him down after
spotting his photo in an obscure publication. The
two proved instrumental in launching his career.
Immediately, Versace booked him for a worldwide
campaign with Helena Christiansen, shot by Weber,
which further led to doing the Lagerfeld campaigns
in Europe and Guess in the US.
Now considered a top male supermodel, he's
appeared in magazines such as Elle, Top Model, Paper
Magazine, GQ, Playgirl and New York Magazine and
interviewed on MTV's House of Style with his best
friend and fellow model, Mark Vanderloo. Currently
living in New York and working for a number of
designers, Alex wants to continue traveling and
modeling, describing himself as a nice individual
who loves life.
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Massimiliano Neri
Massimiliano Neri (born 14 June 1977, in Naples,
Italy)is an Italian supermodel
He was 17 years-old when met photographer Bruce
Weber during a vacation in Capri, who took some
pictures of Massimiliano while shooting with models
Helena Christensen, and Alex Lundqvist for 1995
Versace's Campaign. One month later, Jack Pierson
came to Naples, and he also wanted to take some
pictures of him.
Almost immediately, he became very well known among
the fashion designers, and worked for Gianfranco
Ferrè, Iceberg, Krizia, Versus, D&G, etc... However,
celebrity to a larger public arrived after making a
TV commercial for Versace's sunglasses, which was
shown all over Europe. In New Zealand he became a
star with a sexy TV commercial for Levi's. He left
Milan when he was just 19, and worked as a model in
Sydney, Auckland, Tokyo, Miami, New York, and landed
in Paris in 1998, where he settled down and started
University.
After
doing a worldwide campaign for Rocco Barocco, with
models Natalia Vodianova, Alessandra Ambrosio, and
Ian Webb, he quitted the fashion world for ever,
putting all of his energy in his studies.
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Hoyt Richards
John Hoyt) became one of the biggest names
in modelling in the 1980s and 90s. He is viewed by some
as being the first male Supermodel. His face launched a
thousand advertising campaigns and he was photographed
by Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Steven
Meisel, Horst and Albert Watson to name but a few. He
was sought by numerous designers to front their menswear
campaigns including Gianni Versace, Valentino,
Gianfranco Ferre, Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Dunhill,
Cartier, and Donna Karan.
In his teenage year's Hoyt was sent by his American
parents to be educated in the sixth form of the English
public school Haileybury. After Haileybury Hoyt went to
Princeton University from where he graduated in 1985
with a BA in Economics. At that stage he had no plans to
be a model and dreamt of making it as a professional
American Footballer but on a trip to New York he was
spotted by a casting director from the Ford Model Agency
agency and was told that he could have a career as a
male model. His career lasted fifteen years and over 200
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Bruno Santos
Bruno Santos is considered as one of the emerging
model sensations that hail from Brazil in the recent
years. He is the only male model who was selected to
carry out two campaigns simultaneously for two competing
fashion houses, Versace and Giorgio Armani.
Bruno had not considered modeling as a career, but in
2000, his girlfriend, who was modeling at the time,
introduced him to her agency. The agency agreed to pay
for his expenses to try out in Europe, but Bruno was
working full-time and didn't take the offer seriously.
But the agency and his friends eventually changed
Bruno's mind about modeling.
Bruno traveled to Paris, where he met his agent Ike
Gamez. It was Ike Gamez who introduced Bruno into
mainstream high-fashion, which led to the campaigns for
Versace shot by Steven Klein and Armani by Peter
Lindburgh.
Some of his campaigns: Bloomingdale's [F/W 2004]
Emporio Armani [S/S 2004, S/S 2003] Versace Man, Kappa,
Giorgio Armani [S/S 2004] Versace [S/S 2003, F/W 2003]
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Marcus Schenkenberg
Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop, better
known as just Marcus Schenkenberg (born 4 August 1968)
is the world's first male supermodel, actor, singer,
writer and TV personality born in Stockholm, Sweden but
of Dutch descent.
He is the highest paid per-year male supermodel in
the world, and also known for his muscular,
well-proportioned body, and especially for his
"washboard" abdominal muscles. Schenkenberg, who was
discovered by American photographer Barry King, while
rollerskating in Venice Beach, California in 1989, is
aprox 1.90 m tall (6 ft 3 in) and weighs 82 kg (188 lb)
though in reality he is said to be over 6 ft 3 in tall,
rounding this figure down for the sake of his career,
resulting in many conflicting published figures - even
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Jason
Shaw
Jason Shaw is a male model who was the spokesmodel
of fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger from 1998-2003. He was
romantically involved with Paris Hilton. Shaw graduated
from the University of Chicago in 1995 with a degree in
History, where he was a member of the men's basketball
team.
Jason appeared three times in the supernatural
dramedy Charmed as Piper Halliwell's date, Greg. The
episodes were Chris-Crossed, I dream of Phoebe and The
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Mark
Vanderloo
At thirteen, Mark was the hardest working paperboy
in town, running three routes. Later on, he worked
in bars and cafes, and everything he made, he'd
spend. At 22, he entered the University of Amsterdam
to study History. Mark was discovered while
accompanying a model girlfriend one day to a shoot.
He soon found himself modeling for the very first
time. The photographer placed him in a milk
commercial. But, Mark hated the way he looked in the
pictures and thought that was the end of a very
short modeling career. A local agency liked the
pictures and came after him, offering him money to
travel. After six penniless months at college, he
found the offer impossible to resist.
Hungry
for a male supermodel, the industry pounced on the
broad-shouldered boy. In 1994, Mark moved to
Manhattan, bought a pair of rollerblades and became
Calvin Klein's Eternity model. (Yes, that one-the
guy in the white briefs, rolling around in the
sand.) By the following season, he had become a
print sensation. His live appearances in the Calvin
Klein, Versace, Hermés, Valentino and Boss shows
brought in screaming girls (and men) and much needed
attention to men's fashion.
In 1995, Mark landed the role
as face and body of Boss' couture and ready-to-wear
lines. Three other male models, including
Vanderloo's best friend, Alex Lundqvist, joined him
to become the Fashion Fab Four. (The other two are
Jason Lewis and Keith Mallos) The troupe ruled the
runways. In 1996, they became the first men to
appear on the cover of Marie Claire. Donna Karan
hired Mark that year for a hush-hush spring ad
campaign, launching her new men's collection. While
print remained Mark's bread and butter, he continued
to balance a schedule of up to 50 shows per year.
VH1's Fashion and Music Awards also named him Male
Model of the Year.
Got milk? Mark Vanderloo did, when he landed, by
happenstance, a national commercial for Holland's
dairy board 10 years ago. That since has led to a
lucrative modeling career for him. Mark Vanderloo,
born in Waddinzveen, Holland, has been and still is
one of the top male models in the world.
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Rafael Verga
Rafael Verga, born July 27, 1981, in Florianópolis,
Santa Catarina, Brazil, is a professional male
model.
Rafael is the new face of 2xist underwear and
he is quickly making a name for himself on the
modeling scene. His body is perfection, and he pops
up in many ads and photo spreads in America and
South America.
His
first job was a commercial for L&G, como figurante,
in 2000. These days, he's in demand and very busy
with upcoming photo spreads for companies such as
Calvin Klein and Fruit of the Loom. With an Aussie
Bum campaign on the horizon, we're sure to see more
of that body in the months to come.
He stands 6 feet tall and weighs between 170 and
185 pounds. He has light brown hair with hypnotic
green eyes. Those piercing eyes and perfectly toned
abs guarantee that he will be one stud to reckon
with for a long time.
He says
he is honest and that his flaw is believing
everyone. He loves food, especially rice, beans, and
burgers. During his spare time, he loves to go to
the beach and surf, which is his number-one hobby.
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Ian Webb
Ian Webb has the certain charm and
versatility to be able to stand out even among the
best-looking men in the business. His rugged
handsomeness with a blend of English gentleman, made
him one of the most-in-demand models over the years.
Appearing in virtually every major designer's
campaigns and runway shows, Ian Webb is still riding
the highest waves in the world of fashion.
Growing
up in a small town of South Yorkshire, England, Ian
Webb had worked as a construction worker before
stepping into modeling industry. Ian was discovered
in London, while he was shopping in a local mall. A
scout from Ivan's London agency Models1 approached
him about modeling, suggesting Ian to join a model
competition hosted by the agency. Ian's easy
attitude and exceptional looks won himself a
contract, which soon marched on with his impressive
modeling career after that.
Ian is
described as a natural in front of the camera.
Already, he has worked with some of the biggest
names of photographers, including Bruce Weber,
Walter Chin, Richard Phibbs, Steven Klein, Mikael
Janssen, and many others. The list of notable ad
campaigns under his belt includes Ralph Lauren,
Armani, Tommy Hilfiger and Nautica. In terms of
fashion editorials, Ian has appeared in GQ, Men's
Journal, L'uomo, ID, FHM, Wallpaper, Citizen K,
Interview, and Vogue Homme International.
After
having tremendous amount of success in just a few
years of modeling experience, Ian well establishes
himself as one of the best in the industry. With his
hunger for learning, Ian keeps pursuing his modeling
career to reach even greater heights.
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Joel West
Joel west is from Indianola, Iowa and was
discovered during a rather unusual experience. Where
was his lean body first "discovered?" Would you
believe it was in, of all places, a Dairy Queen! A
17-year-old Joel was on his way home from an annual
church skiing trip, grabbing a "Blizzard" for the
road, when a local photographer stopped him and
asked if he'd ever thought of becoming a male model.
The rest, as they say, is history!
Over the years, he has worked for Calvin
Klein, Versace, and Hugo Boss, and has become one of
the elite models in male model industry. However,he
is still regarded as one of the underpaid models.
His No.1 goal is "to become the best male model in
the world. I don't start something unless I can
believe I can be the best." As the first male model
to land an exclusive contract with Calvin Klein, it
would appear he is well on his way to achieving this
goal!
If you
are considering modeling yourself, here's his best
advice. Joel believes there are 3 essential elements
to becoming a successful male model: "Confidence is
No.1. Second, you have to be very focused and know
what you want out of the whole business. And third,
a good, positive outlook!" Joel has an apartment in
New York, and shows his dedication to the work by
exercising 12 hours a week.
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