David Gandy appears on the cover of GQ Romania magazine's supplement: GQ Top 50 Men of Style (March/May issue), photographed by the turkey-born professional fashion photographer Arcin Sagdic, styled by Ovidiu Buta and Sylvester Yiu.
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David Gandy Covers GQ Romania Style (March/May 2013)
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David Gandy in Comic Relief/ Red Nose Day Sketch
A plethora of British celebrities, including David Gandy, joined David Walliams for a hysterical Comic Relief /Red Nose sketch during the live broadcast of the 25th anniversary of the fundraising campaign.
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David Gandy Attends the 2013 Golden Shears Awards
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On Monday March 18, 2013 David Gandy, clad in a bespoke gunmetal blue suite by Thom Sweeney, was a presenter at the 2013 Golden Shears Awards. The Golden Shears Award is a bespoke tailoring competition held at the Merchant Taylor's Hall every two years. All three top prizes went to women in the bespoke industry. Top prize went to Emily Squires. The Golden Shears prize is decided by two expert panels: one of Savile Row insiders and another of celebrities including Johanna Lumley, Raymond Blanc, Hilary Alexander and Nick Hewer.
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David Gandy with top prize winner Emily Squires
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David Gandy with second prize winner Jennie McWalter & model
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David Gandy Attends viewing of ' David Bowie Is' Exhibition
This evening David Gandy attended a private viewing of 'David Bowie Is' exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. On display are many of the outfits worn by musician and actor David Bowie, along with photographs and videos..jpg)
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David Gandy for M&S 'Collezione' Summer 2013
David Gandy, once again, transports us to the idyllic endless summer of South Florida with his latest campaign for M&S. Within the 'Collezione' Campaign for the summer season, he shows us a palette of cool summer hues. From toned down blues and pinks to summer plaids and strips to a few light summer suits as well.
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M&S Collezione Summer 2013 Ad Campaign
We want to put into words our deep gratitude to Oliver Elmes (director) for being so nice with us and sending us a HQ version of this video to share with all of you.
We really don't know how to thank this man enough, Oliver, you truly are amazing.
It's been a pleasure and we are looking forward to collaborating with you again.
Director - Oliver Elmes (portfolio)
Producer - Tom Booth
DOP - Leon Willis
Hair - Larry King
Stylist - David Nolan
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Interview Update: David Gandy for STM Magazine (August 2012)
Very special thanks to Maja Stubkjaer from Denmark for being so kind and sending us these scans.
Even though this interview is similar to the one you can find in our Live Magazine (June 2012) post, there are small changes in the content and we decided to offer you the possibility of reading them both.
He's the world's top male supermodel who featured in the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. But there's more to David Gandy than just a pretty face.
“I ski like a madman and drive like I’ve just stolen a car,” he says. “I like speed. I like the challenge.”
This could be a bit of a Zoolander moment – the Ben Stiller comedy that so perfectly skewered the inanity of modelling profession – but the world’s most successful male model is clearly conscious that having a perfect body, towering height (1,90m), Caribbean sea-blue eyes and knifw-sharp cheekbones, isn’t actually the way to win friends.
A photographic assistant is waiting at a bus stop 800m sown the road. Gandy immediately offers to pick him up and a couple of hours into shooting, several minions have been given the keys to mess around in his cars (he’s arranged for a Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster to turn up for a test drive). He is one of the only people who can work the hi-tech drinks machine on site, so he is required to make coffee after coffee.
Later he says: “I have a fortunate placing of bones and muscles that enables me to do what I do. It’s the reason I work. It’s not a reason I’m better than anyone else.”
“To be honest, I don’t think I’m that great-looking. At school I wasn’t the guy who got the girls or who was thought to be hot. I didn’t have a girlfriend ‘til I was 21, which is pretty late. I was a loner. All I saw in the mirror was a big nose and a slightly chubby boy. I was ridiculously shy around girls.”
“I remember being in awe of this guy at university who could just talk to anyone. I still think if a guy wants girls, it’s more about the gift of the gab than the way you look. In my head I still think of myself as I was at 15 or 16.”
For the record, he still doesn’t have gratuitous sex with gorgeous girls. “I’ve only had three serious relationships, “ he reveals.
Surely it’s impossible not to get sucked into that supermodel vacuum of narcissism, arrogance, mobile phone throwing and absolute superiority over the rest of the less attractive human race? He raises an eyebrow.
“You see it – I don’t get on with Gisele (Bündchen). We don’t see eye to eye, we argue and we don’t enjoy working with each other [they had to shot three campaigns together]. Like I say, we are very privileged but what we do isn’t saving lives, it isn’t brain surgery. And I’m not going to get on with anyone who takes it for granted or thinks they’re someone special. “
“My advice to any young model is very simple. Just don’t believe your own hype.”
Like Bündchen, Gandy’s look and body have brought him wealth. In a woman’s world, he’s fought hard to carve a brand. “I didn’t start off as David Gandy," he laughs. "After the first D & G Light Blue commercial I was known as the ' White Pants Guy.'
The ad, featuring sun, sea and lots of semi naked body shots, turned him into a world wide phenomenon with 11 million internet hits within day one of its launch.
"My agency would have calls to get the 'White Pants Guy.' It took me a bit of time before people started putting a name to the pants." he laughs.
David Beckham was among those who were clearly impressed ( his white pants-clad Armani commercials owed more than a nod to Gandy's underwear drawer).
"I wish him, Jude Law and Brad Pitt would stick to their day jobs, " says Gandy. "It's hard enough for male models as it is, so give us a chance, boys. Butt out." he grins. " I have to admit, though, Beckham is good. I'm a fan of Brand Beckham."
Gandy is also doing well. At 32, he earns about $750,00 a year. Not bad for a model, but in comparison Gisele earned $22.5 million in 2011.
"A part of me does think 'Why is this? What can I do about it? Why is it that the female models get paid four times as much as a male model for a campaign they are
both in?'
"I absolutely respect the way the girls view themselves. They turn up with their financial guys, their managers, their agents. They'll work seriously hard at keeping themselves in top shape and at being a brand. It's always been a female industry and a lot of the male models have tended to treat the whole thing as a bit of a joke, not thinking of it as a business."
"I was never going to do that. But it's just a fact in this industry that the women earn more than the men. While the top female models fly first class or business, the guys fly ecomony. I can't tell you the amount of long flights I've done with absolutely no sleep at all and then had to walk off a plane on to a shoot. It's only on the last year or so I've been put up front on the plane."
These days, however, Gandy has celebrity status, beautiful girls (he dated singer Mollie King and is now seeing model Sarah Ann Macklin) a jet-set lifestyle and business interests that run into a production company and investments in films such as The Number Station staring John Cusack, which will be released next year.
"It's a British film," he says "I'm very much into supporting quality British products. We should be proud of what we produce."
He could be talking about himself. As a model, Gandy has achieved the unachievable on two fronts. First, he's made himself an international name with jelly-legged admirers ranging from Demi Moore to Megan Fox. Second, he's changed the face of male modeling by reintroducing the classic combo of "sex-n-pecs" back into a world that had become filled with super skinny androgynous teens.
"I spent years just working as a catalogue model because I was too big for most clothes," he says "I can't tell you the amount of times I'd hear that awful rip as I pulled on a pair trousers or a jacket. There was no way my basic body shape would fit into those incredibly tiny clothes. That was the look: super-skinny rock star.
"I made good money as a catalogue model. I had a nice life and a long career ahead of me. But I wasn't happy. You have to have some creative satisfaction and I felt I wasn't going as far as I could. People would look at me and say, 'You're too good looking for a model' it was all a bit strange."
"You have a choice in life. You try to fit in and follow the crowd or you do you own thing and do it the best you can. I decided I was just going to go out on a limb. I went to my model agency and told them to drop all my clients. No more catalogues, no more commercial work. I wanted to do serious campaigns."
What was the reaction? He laughs
"No more money and one hell of a blazing row. I had a stand-up fight with my agent but she ended up saying she'd totally support me. In a lot of ways it seemed mad. I had a nice flat, a nice car, a nice career but it wasn't what I knew it could be or should be."
Born in working-class Essex, Gandy is decidedly proud of his roots. His father, Chris, left school at 14 and with his mother, Brenda, built up a successful freight and property company. His grandfather, James, worked for the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Number 10.
"He was just one of her staff but she was very fond of him. She use to drive him mad because she'd always called him Jimmy not James. Ronald Reagan used to call him Jimmy, too. My sister and I had our photo taken outside Number 10. I was wearing these hand-me-down track suite bottoms. It was all my parents could afford."
As a teenager Gandy did work experience for Auto Express magazine and was asked to stay on, picking up and dropping off cars. he now writes a car column for GQ.
He studied photography, " It's my business," he says "If you don't learn about what you do how are you going to try to be the best?"
Still by 2005 he was just a hopeful male model with no jobs coming in after ditching his bread and butter catalogue work. Told by many to lose weight he went to the gym, exercised and got bigger and bigger, honing a look based on the classic icons he looked up to , from Steve McQueen to Paul Newman.
The same year his agent heard of a meeting between a photographer friend and the fashion giants Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who were looking to cast someone for their new men's fragrance.
"I'm more a believer in making you own luck than just luck," he says.
So Gandy turned up at the restaurant to say "hello" and the designers realized that the tanned, honned, 100 per cent macho Gandy would make a massive splash.
"I was on a plane, jumping in the water, making that commercial within a matter of days. That was the beginning. I went from being the big guy you couldn't book to the 'White Pants Guy'.
Now he is the undisputed world NO.1 male model with a long career in front of him.
"The downside is the girls earn more, the upside is guys work longer," he says.
He trains 45 minutes a day, eats anything but saturated fats and white processed food and -being known for being macho- doesn't have to worry too much about messing up his face. He got a scar by his right eye after a drunken night in New York where an equally drunk friend accidentally slammed his face in a car door.
His interests are all a bit James Bond: cars, watches ( he has an old Omega and TAG Monaco, as worn by Steve McQueen, and a '70's Breitling) and antique furniture, which he turns into modern pieces.
"I collect huge French clocks and old carpenters' consoles, which I turn into tables," he says.
He has interior-designed several properties. His idea of a holiday is not a Caribbean beach but trekking with gorillas in Rwanda.
"I'm probably not what most people think but, then again, I hope that's a good thing," he says.
But right now he is focused solely on work. His nine month relationship to King ended because they rarely saw each other.
"I was really sad about it," he says. "But you do have to focus on work. I have to spend these years building a business for my future. Then I can relax."
The ad, featuring sun, sea and lots of semi naked body shots, turned him into a world wide phenomenon with 11 million internet hits within day one of its launch.
"My agency would have calls to get the 'White Pants Guy.' It took me a bit of time before people started putting a name to the pants." he laughs.
David Beckham was among those who were clearly impressed ( his white pants-clad Armani commercials owed more than a nod to Gandy's underwear drawer).
"I wish him, Jude Law and Brad Pitt would stick to their day jobs, " says Gandy. "It's hard enough for male models as it is, so give us a chance, boys. Butt out." he grins. " I have to admit, though, Beckham is good. I'm a fan of Brand Beckham."
Gandy is also doing well. At 32, he earns about $750,00 a year. Not bad for a model, but in comparison Gisele earned $22.5 million in 2011.
"A part of me does think 'Why is this? What can I do about it? Why is it that the female models get paid four times as much as a male model for a campaign they are
both in?'
"I absolutely respect the way the girls view themselves. They turn up with their financial guys, their managers, their agents. They'll work seriously hard at keeping themselves in top shape and at being a brand. It's always been a female industry and a lot of the male models have tended to treat the whole thing as a bit of a joke, not thinking of it as a business."
"I was never going to do that. But it's just a fact in this industry that the women earn more than the men. While the top female models fly first class or business, the guys fly ecomony. I can't tell you the amount of long flights I've done with absolutely no sleep at all and then had to walk off a plane on to a shoot. It's only on the last year or so I've been put up front on the plane."
These days, however, Gandy has celebrity status, beautiful girls (he dated singer Mollie King and is now seeing model Sarah Ann Macklin) a jet-set lifestyle and business interests that run into a production company and investments in films such as The Number Station staring John Cusack, which will be released next year.
"It's a British film," he says "I'm very much into supporting quality British products. We should be proud of what we produce."
He could be talking about himself. As a model, Gandy has achieved the unachievable on two fronts. First, he's made himself an international name with jelly-legged admirers ranging from Demi Moore to Megan Fox. Second, he's changed the face of male modeling by reintroducing the classic combo of "sex-n-pecs" back into a world that had become filled with super skinny androgynous teens.
"I spent years just working as a catalogue model because I was too big for most clothes," he says "I can't tell you the amount of times I'd hear that awful rip as I pulled on a pair trousers or a jacket. There was no way my basic body shape would fit into those incredibly tiny clothes. That was the look: super-skinny rock star.
"I made good money as a catalogue model. I had a nice life and a long career ahead of me. But I wasn't happy. You have to have some creative satisfaction and I felt I wasn't going as far as I could. People would look at me and say, 'You're too good looking for a model' it was all a bit strange."
"You have a choice in life. You try to fit in and follow the crowd or you do you own thing and do it the best you can. I decided I was just going to go out on a limb. I went to my model agency and told them to drop all my clients. No more catalogues, no more commercial work. I wanted to do serious campaigns."
What was the reaction? He laughs
"No more money and one hell of a blazing row. I had a stand-up fight with my agent but she ended up saying she'd totally support me. In a lot of ways it seemed mad. I had a nice flat, a nice car, a nice career but it wasn't what I knew it could be or should be."
Born in working-class Essex, Gandy is decidedly proud of his roots. His father, Chris, left school at 14 and with his mother, Brenda, built up a successful freight and property company. His grandfather, James, worked for the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Number 10.
"He was just one of her staff but she was very fond of him. She use to drive him mad because she'd always called him Jimmy not James. Ronald Reagan used to call him Jimmy, too. My sister and I had our photo taken outside Number 10. I was wearing these hand-me-down track suite bottoms. It was all my parents could afford."
As a teenager Gandy did work experience for Auto Express magazine and was asked to stay on, picking up and dropping off cars. he now writes a car column for GQ.
He studied photography, " It's my business," he says "If you don't learn about what you do how are you going to try to be the best?"
Still by 2005 he was just a hopeful male model with no jobs coming in after ditching his bread and butter catalogue work. Told by many to lose weight he went to the gym, exercised and got bigger and bigger, honing a look based on the classic icons he looked up to , from Steve McQueen to Paul Newman.
The same year his agent heard of a meeting between a photographer friend and the fashion giants Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who were looking to cast someone for their new men's fragrance.
"I'm more a believer in making you own luck than just luck," he says.
So Gandy turned up at the restaurant to say "hello" and the designers realized that the tanned, honned, 100 per cent macho Gandy would make a massive splash.
"I was on a plane, jumping in the water, making that commercial within a matter of days. That was the beginning. I went from being the big guy you couldn't book to the 'White Pants Guy'.
Now he is the undisputed world NO.1 male model with a long career in front of him.
"The downside is the girls earn more, the upside is guys work longer," he says.
He trains 45 minutes a day, eats anything but saturated fats and white processed food and -being known for being macho- doesn't have to worry too much about messing up his face. He got a scar by his right eye after a drunken night in New York where an equally drunk friend accidentally slammed his face in a car door.
His interests are all a bit James Bond: cars, watches ( he has an old Omega and TAG Monaco, as worn by Steve McQueen, and a '70's Breitling) and antique furniture, which he turns into modern pieces.
"I collect huge French clocks and old carpenters' consoles, which I turn into tables," he says.
He has interior-designed several properties. His idea of a holiday is not a Caribbean beach but trekking with gorillas in Rwanda.
"I'm probably not what most people think but, then again, I hope that's a good thing," he says.
But right now he is focused solely on work. His nine month relationship to King ended because they rarely saw each other.
"I was really sad about it," he says. "But you do have to focus on work. I have to spend these years building a business for my future. Then I can relax."
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David Gandy Attends The Right To Play Private Dinner
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David Gandy along with Elle Macpherson attended The Right to Play private dinner for Barry The Dog. Barry the Dog, aka Barry Karacostas is an elite trainer to London's celebrity owned dogs. The charity event was held ahead of his husky expedition across the the Artic. On his Just Giving page Barry writes about his motivation for this trek: "Every year I try to give something back and this year I have chosen a challenge which has a strong connection to my work with dogs."
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David Gandy for Massimo Dutti 'NYC - The Movie'
Massimo Dutti shines its new NYC S/S 2013 - Limited Collection bringing to us its most sophisticated, luxury side. With a stunning film shoot around the Hollywood Hills in L.A last February and with David Gandy driving a black Ferrari California 30, the British model and the Spanish brand create the perfect atmosphere to show us elegant suits, shirts and the concept that you can't contol everything but your style.
Source: Massimodutti.com
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David Gandy for Lucky Brand Summer 2013 (New Pics)
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David Gandy is a picture of pure casualness for the new Lucky Brand Summer 2013 campaign.
In these pictures of the collection David is photographed in white jeans, plaid short sleeve shirts, t-shirts, cut off jean shorts, flip flops and the iconic Chuck Taylor Converse sneakers.
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David Gandy for M&S Summer 2013 (Collezione Campaign)
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Super Model David Gandy photographed by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca for the Summer 2013 M&S Collezione Campaign. Shot at Gables by the Sea in Miami.Art Director: Kate GoodeFashion Styling: David NolanHair & Grooming: Larry KingProduction: Production FactorySpecial Thanks to Jo Douglas (M&S)
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A Look Back at the Launch of 'David Gandy by D&G: The Book'
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Almost two years ago (June 18, 2011), David lived one of his most unforgettable and memorable moments.The launching of his book:A review of his campaigns and all the projects he did with the renowed italian brand since 2006 plus some new pictures shot by Mariano Vivanco exclusively for that book.
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David Gandy with Stefano Gabbana & Domenico Dolce
That moment, turned into several coincidental events that David attended and gifted us with these very special and beautiful pictures. The 10th Anniversary of the D&G 'Light Blue' perfume in Milan in June 17 and the round table with the digital press at the Dolce&Gabbana Store in Milan in June 18.
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And now, after all this time, a new video has been released and we wanted to share it with you all. An unpublished interview for Grazia.it by Delphine Hervieu. We hope you enjoy it!
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David Gandy for Madame Figaro 'Spécial Hommes' (April 2013)
David Gandy begins April fronting the cover of the french magazine Madame Figaro "Spécial Hommes" (April 2013). The British top model, the gentleman, under the lens of the photographer Lionel Guyou (pln management) in London last February, shows us his most elegant facet and sensualmagnetism wearing leading menswear clothes and complements from different renowed brands in the shoot (Tom Ford, Brioni, Cerruti, Giorgio Armani, Dior, Ralph Lauren Black Label Michael Kors, Hermés...).
Styling by Jean-Michel Clerc & Grooming by Larry King.
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David Gandy for Massimo Dutti Spring 2013 Lookbook (III)
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David Gandy dazzles in the latest Massimo Dutti lookbook. David is photographed in a kaleidoscope of colors from dark to pale blues, to different shades of beige and brown, to bright green, yellow and coral. Previous look books from earlier in the year can be found here: February Look Book & March Look Book
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David Gandy on 'Playing with Fire' (E! Channel)
Friday night April 5th, David Gandy appeared on E! Channel's (US) new reality show ‘Playing with Fire’ with his friends Louis Dowler and his girlfriend, Jennifer Esposito. This was a nice chance to catch a glimpse of David away from work and enjoying a visit with two of his very good friends. Jennifer is a regular on this TV show and with her boyfriend opened the 'Jennifer's Way' a gluten free Bakery in NYC.
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David Gandy for 'The Sunday Telegraph' Men Spring/Summer 2013
We would like to give a Huge Thank You to our friend Gabi Goncalves from UK for sharing the scans of this interview with us.
If you would like to see this wonderful photoshoot by Lorenzo Agius please follow this link
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WANTED ON BOARD
As the world's most in-demand model, David Gandy is constantly on the move.
Sheryl Garratt catches up with him between flights.
The first thing you notice about David Gandy is that he is startlingly handsome. When we meet in the bar of the Ivy Club in London, I almost do a double take: it's like the page of a glossy magazine has come to life, all tanned, tall and perfectly stubbled. The second thing is that he's actually quite shy, which is endearing, and not what you'd expect from a man who shot to fame by cavorting around in unfeasibly tiny white trunks in Dolce & Gabbana's now iconic 2007 Light Blue men's fragrance ad.
This 32-year-old form Billericay in Essex is now said to be the world's highest-paid male model, and was the only man in the line-up of British supermodels who strutted their stuff during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. 'It was lovely to be represented', he says. 'England isn't the best at everything, but with fashion, we are pretty much up there.We have so many iconic fashion brands, and the girls here from Kate and Naomi to Lily are the top in the world. We should shout about that.'
When we meet, Gandy has just come back from his third trip to LA in a month. He is due to be in Barcelona two days later, shooting a campaign for Massimo Dutti, then he will have just one night back at his flat in Fulham- an area he chose for its proximity to Heathrow- before setting off to Miami. He'll be there for five days-shooting, then fitting in a visit to his parents, who have a house in Florida- before travelling up to Scotland for an event with Johnnie Walker, one of the brands he is working with ( as an ambassador for its premium Blue Label whiskey), then back to Barcelona, and on to Paris. And this, he says, is a fairly typical fortnight's work.
'It's pretty intense. You're talking 85-90 flights a year. And I've been travelling business class for only two or three years. Before that I use to go economy, which was tough because I'm 6ft 3. But that's my life and it always has been. I'm probably a bit of a loner in some ways. Travelling as I have for 11 years, you become ver comfortable with yourself.'
Gandy was born in Essex, of working-class parents who built up successful businesses, first in freight, then in property. They too are keen travellers, and use holiday's as a way of educating David and his sister,Claire, who no lives in Spain. 'We've been on float-planes to see the brown bears in Alaska, we've been to see the Amazon rainforest, to the Galapagos Islands. My dad thinks he's David Attenborough II, really.'
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Gandy was supposed to be skiing in Whistler the week we meet, but cancelled when work commitments began piling up. 'I cancel a lot of holidays', he says. When he does get away, he tends not to follow the fashion herd. 'When they talk about Ibiza, I'm talking about trekking to see gorillas in Uganda.' Africa is his favourite place to travel. Last November his parents went to South Africa for a month, and he met them for a week-long safari in Botswana. When out fishing, their boat was hit by a hippo, and when their Land Rover got a flat tyre at night, the lions they's gone looking for found them instead. 'Suddenly, there were three of the biggest males you've ever seen. It was as pretty spectacular,' he enthuses, adding that he loves the back-to-basics feel of the bush camping. 'It's the only time I really relax. there are no mobile phones, no Wi-fi, I go to bed at 9pm and I'm up a 5am. Africa is very close to my heart.'
Gandy has some friends in the fashion industry, but his closets friends are from Billericay, and most are as successful as he is. 'Half of them are in finance. They're friends you can go back with and in five minutes you're ripping the p*** out of each other. We've all grown up together, and some of them are having babies, which is exciting.'
His own relationships- with Mollie King from the Saturday's and more recently the model Sarah Ann Macklin- tend to excite tabloid comment, but it's not something he wants to discuss in interviews, he has spent a lot of time building up his online profile, and any ad campaign featuring him now gets media attention, but he can't understand people in the public eye who are constantly tweeting about their private life. He will say that it's sometimes easier to date someone in the same industry. 'When you're on a shoot with a beautiful girl and being intimate, you've got a crew of people around you and it's the most unromantic thing. But people don't understand that if they haven't experienced it themselves. There's always going to be a jealousy factor there, which is taken out if you date someone in the industry.'
He is far more comfortable talking about another love: cars. He writes a car column for GQ magazine, and when travelling within Britain he'll usually make sure he has a good car review. He is working with Jaguar on a short film to promote the new F-Type, so he has an XKSS in the garage at the moment. He is also restoring a 1960's Mercedes Benz 190SL. 'It has so much history to it,' he says lovingly.
The house he has just bought in Fullham is a three-story Victorian that he intends to renovate completely, applying for planning permission to dig down into the basement, even under the garden. 'We're going to to get every square foot we can out of it', he says with relish. 'I can't wait to get my teeth into it,' In the meantime, he is living in a flat nearby, its spare room full of vintage finds for the new house. The morning after we meet, he was planning to get up at 6am to drive to the Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton. 'I'm jet-lagged anyway from LA, so I'll probably be up at that time with a cup of coffee.' Gandy likes to alter or repurpose his purchases. 'My kitchen roll holder is actually an old skittles game, and I have an old French carpenter's unit, that's the main part of my kitchen.
Eventually, this could turn into a new career. He often comes back from trips lugging lamps or picture frames, and thinks there's a gap in the market here for stylish, beautifully made reproduction furniture such as sold by the upmarket US chain Restoration Hardware. 'Someone approached me about doing it. but it's not quite the right time at the moment.' There is also chatter about him launching an acting career, but he says he'd only be interested if the right role came along. 'I've had offers for films: 300 II and Spartacus. People see you in a pair of white pants and they think you’re going to do that for ever. But I’d rather shave my head and lose a few stone and someone wonder if it’s really me, rather than it just be, “Oh, there he is, in his underwear with his top off again.”
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you become very comfortable with yourself.”
For now, he is happy to be a film investor instead: he helped fund John Cusack’s forthcoming British-made thriller The Numbers Station, because he liked the script and loves Cusack’s work. He runs his own production company to create short films and software apps, such as his new fitness app, and the David Gandy Style Guide, which is still selling well two years after its launch.
Today he is wearing a white Ralph Lauren cardigan, a grey Massimo Dutti shirt he picked up on a shoot and a knitted tie from Reiss with some ultra-faded jeans he bought in a vintage shop in New York. He ripped them, but liked them so much he’s had them repaired. “That’s how stylish I am!” he scoffs, pointing to the stitching on his knee. He insists that men don’t have to spend a lot of money to look good. “I Love Ralph Lauren, but I never pay full price. I only ever shop there in the sales. I’ll be in Marks & Spencer as much as in designer gear, probably more so.”
Gandy recently spoke at the Oxford Union alongside Esquire’s editor Alex Bilmes, and voiced the opinion that men’s titles should approach fashion more like women’s magazines, showing celebrity looks and how to recreate them on a high-street budget. “Alex said he didn´t think there was a market for that, and I think there is. But now I’m in charge of editing the men’s sections of M&S Magazine, so I will be bringing more of that into it.”
"For some jobs I’m more likely to be up against
Brand Pill and Clive Owen than I am other models."
Like most models with a long and successful career, Gandy has a good business brain. He has a degree in marking from the University of Gloucestershire, and says his move from anonymous catalogue work to being his own brand was carefully orchestrated. “Nowadays all the brands are using celebrity faces. For some jobs I’m more likely to be up against Brand Pill and Clive Owen than I am other models. But I saw that coming.” Modelling is, of course, one of the few professions where women routinely earn more than men. “Male models were at the bottom of the pecking order when it came to a shoot,” Gandy says. “If there weren’t enough rooms in the hotel, the first people to move into a worse hotel were the male models. Even the stylist’s assistant would stay in the nice hotel. If other male models want to put up with that, that’s up to them, but I wanted to create more for myself.”
“Of course, men are never going to earn as much as women: I read that last year Gisele earned £19 million. The top supermodels have their PRs, their Pas, their branding managers, the best agents. It’s a business, and that’s why the male models are never taken that seriously. They seemed to be very happy to just be there and to be treated the way they were.”
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It is hard to talk about male models without thinking of the 2001 film Zoolander, a hilarious send-up of the fashion world starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as two absurdly stupid models. Stiller’s character, Derek Zoolander, is known for his signature pout, which he named “Blue Steel”, and at the end of the film he reveals his new look, the impossibly beautiful “Magnum”. Instead of avoiding the inevitable Zoolander jokes, Gandy has wisely chosen to embrace them. He recently launched a charity to raise funds for Comic Relief, starting with an auction of money-can’t-buy items and experiences involving the likes of Naomi Campbell and Victoria Beckham, whom he met at the Olympics and bonded with over a few choice Essex jokes. The name of his charity: the Blue Steel Appeal. Not the Magnum? “That I’m keeping for something else,” he laughs.He also has an unpaid ambassador role for Battersea Dogs Home. He can’t have a dog of his own because he is away so much, but he often goes to visit the rescue animals. “The last London Collections was absolutely manic: 60 shows and presentations, the press launch for the Blue Steel Appeal, parties and dinners every evening. The morning after, the first I did was to go to Battersea and spend a couple of hours with all the puppies.”
This is, of course, so Derek Zoolander that I start giggling, and he is gracious enough to join in. He wants to use his high profile to do some good where he can, he says – and besides, it’s pretty clear who gets the last laugh. “I get to travel around the world, I work with the most beautiful women, the best creative, I enjoy myself and I earn a lot of money,” he says. “Now, have you got to be stupid to do that, or have you got to be stupid not to do that?”
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David Gandy's Interview on Punkt 6 (RTL)
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[March 15, 2013] Right Man: RM / Middle man:MM / Hostess:H / David Gandy: DG /Julia Ebeling:JE
H: Das ist David Gandy, das best bezahlte Männermodel der Welt
This is David Gandy, the highest paid Male Model in the world.
MM: Hmhmm, aber wie lebt so ein Supermodel eigentlich Privat? Unsere Reporterin Julia Ebeling dürfte diesen Mann in London besuchen und hat natürlich auch mal nachgefragt ob der 33 Jährige noch zu haben ist.
But how does the private life of a Supermodel look? Our reporter Julia Ebeling had the opportunity to visit the man in London and to ask whether the 33 yr old is still available
W: Ich bin gespannt.
I am curious.
JE:Die letzten Stufen. David Gandy wohnt ganz oben, wie passend.Ich bin gespannt.
The final steps. David Gandy lives on the top floor. How appropriate. I am curious
Zu Hause beim heissesten Typen der Welt.
At home with the hottest guy in the world.
JE: "Hi David schön dich kennen zu lernen!"
"Hi David, nice to meet you".
DG: "Hallo, find ich auch, komm rein."
"Hello, nice to meet you too, come in."
JE: "Danke."
"Thank you."
In der Küche wartet er schon, überlebensgroß. In echt wirkt David aber gar nicht überheblich sondern im Gegenteil sehr Bodenständig.Überraschend.
In the kitchen he waits already, life-sized. Surprisingly, David is actually very down to earth and not at all arrogant.
"David ich hab dir deutsches Frühstück mit gebracht."
"David I brought you a German breakfast."
DG: "Ey toll."
" Oh, great."
JE: "Ich hoffe du magst es".
" I hope you like it."
Puuhh, steht einem entspannten Frühstück also Nichts im Wege. Um den Kaffee kümmert sich David höchstpersönlich, das kommt angeblich selten vor.
Puuhh, nothing beats a relaxed breakfast. David makes his own coffee. Allegedly a rare thing.
DG: "Ich bin ja ständig unterwegs. Reisen ist mein Leben!"
" I am constantly on the go. Traveling is my life!"
JE:" Und magst du das?"
"Do you enjoy it?"
DG:" Ja, ich liebe es!"
" Yes, I love it!"
JE: Und das sieht man. David bei der Arbeit. DIeses Werbeshooting 2010 brachte ihm endgültig den Durchbruch. Kein Wunder und so verdient er heute sein Geld: immer im Mittelpunkt , umgeben von schönen Frauen. Doch das heisst rein gar Nichts sagt er.
And you can tell. David at work. This 2010 shoot gave him his breakthrough. No wonder at all and this is how he today makes a living : always in the Center, surrounded by beautiful women. But it means nothing, he says.
DG: " Ich bin schüchtern, ich bin wirklich sehr schüchtern"
"I'm shy, I'm really very shy."
JE: " Ja klar, wirklich?"
" Yeah, really?"
DG: "Ja wirklich, das glaubt mir kaum Einer aber es ist so."
"Yes, unbelievable but true"
JE: Fällt mir tatsächlich schwer zu Glauben, auch das dieser ausgeschlafende Typ eigentlich ein Morgenmuffel sein soll.
Just as hard to believe, as this well rested Guy being a morning grouch.
DG:" Ich bin Morgens nicht sehr gesprächig. Bevor ich nicht mindestens 4 Tassen Kaffee hatte bin ich nicht ansprechbar."
"I'm am not very talkative in the morning. I am non-responsive until I've had four cups of coffee in the morning."
JE: Hab ich ein Glück. Richtig Gesprächig wird David beim Thema, klar, Männermode.
I am lucky. David is really talkative on the subject of, of course, Male Fashion.
DG:" Gute Schuhe sind wichtig, weil Frauen erkennen das sofort."
"Nice shoes are important because women recognize that immediately."
JE: "Wieviele Schuhe hast du?"
"How many pairs of shoes do you have ?"
DG:" Ich hab gar nicht so viele. Ich glaub es sind so 10 Paar, mehr nicht."
"I really don't have that many.Perhaps ten pairs no more."
JE: Ein Supermodel und nur 10 Paar Schuh, ich werde das noch überprüfen. Leider komme ich beim Frühstück nicht in den Genuss Davids kulinarische Künste zu testen, denn er kocht gerne.
A supermodel with only ten pairs of shoes, I'll have to check that. Although David enjoys to cook, I unfortunately do not get to enjoy David's culinary talents.
DG:" Keine meiner Exfreundinnen hat gekocht, keine Einzige. Und das ist gut so, weil wenn man zwei Chefs in der Küche hat ..."
"Not a single one of my ex-girlfriends cooked. And that is a good thing because when you have two chefs in the kitchen..."
JE: " Nein, dann wirds kompliziert."
No, then it becomes complicated."
DG:" Ja, dann gibs Krieg. Keiner traut dem Anderen, nach dem Motto: mach es so, nein, mach es lieber so."
"Yes, then you'll have war.. No trust according to the motto: make it this way, no, better do it that way."
JE: In der Küche hat der 33 Jährige also gern die Hosen an. Im Bad allerdings läßt er sich gern was von Frauen sagen.
The 33-year-old wears the pants in the kitchen. He however gladly listens to the woman when it comes to the bathroom."
DG:" Ich glaube Männer pflegen sich mehr wenn sie eine FReundin haben."
"I believe that men take better care of their body when they have a girlfriend."
JE:" Ja mit ihren Sachen!"
"Yes, with her stuff!"
DG:" Wenn ich eine Freundin habe benutze ich ihr Zeugs immer mit und merke: ohh das ist toll für die Haare zB."
"When I have a girlfriend I always use her stuff and realize: ohh this is great for the hair for example."
JE:" Und dann noch was für die Augen."
"And something for the eyes."
DG:" Ja, ganz genau!"
" Yes exactly!"
JE:" Aber ich habe gehört momentan hast du keine Freundin, stimmt das?"
" But I have heard that you currently don't have a girlfriend, is it true?"
DG:" Ja, das stimmt schon, ich habe momentan keine feste Freundin."
" Yes, that's true, I don't have a girlfriend currently."
JE:" Also keine Gesichtscreme grade?"
"So, No Face cream available?
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DG:" lach* Nein, genau."
*laughter* " No, exactly."
JE: Ach Gesichtspflege wird doch auch völlig überbewertet, bei den Augen! Und apropos Frauen: ist er ein Gentleman?
Oh, facial care is completely overrated, with those eye!. Speaking of women: are you a gentleman?
DG:" Ja. Ich bin total altmodisch!"
"Yes. I am totally old fashioned!"
JE:" Das ist doch gut!"
"That's good!"
DG:" Nein, manche Frauen mögen das, manche nicht."
"No, some women like it, some don't."
JE: Ich würde gerne noch weiterplauschen, aber David muss zum Flughafen, das nächste Shooting wartet. Bevor ich gehe kann ich mir aber das nicht verkneifen: ein kurzer Blick auf den Schuhschrank. Und tatsächlich, ich staune, sehr übersichtlich.
I would like to chat more, but David needs to leave to the airport, the next photo shoot awaits. Before leaving I couldn't deny myself a quick glance at the shoe cabinet. In fact, I us quite amazed.
DG:" Ich ziehe bald um und deshalb ist es nicht so aufgeräumt."
"I am moving soon and that's why it's not tidy."
JE: Aufgeräumt hin oder her, er ist ja auch nur ein Mensch und ich bin froh das er mir genau das sehr offen gezeigt hat.
Tidy or not, he's simply human and I was happy to see his openness.
H: "Ein schöner Mann!"
"A beautiful man!"
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David Gandy & Bianca Balti for 'Amica' Magazine (May 2013)
Two of Dolce&Gabbana's faves, supermodels Bianca Balti& David Gandy, grace the cover of the latest italian magazine's cover: Amica May 2013. Beautifully captured by the fashion photographer Giovanni Gastel, with hair by Gabriele Trezzi and makeup by Andrea Costa. The shoot transports us to the idyllic environment of a timeless land paradise, to the confident and private atmosphere of the Garden of the Eden where the pictures, mainly in black and white, appears to us like an unforgettable memories.
The magazine has been released today, so if you have a chance, go and get your piece of the paradise!
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David Gandy Attends Roger Vivier Book Launch
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Last night, April 24th, 2013, David Gandy attended the, iconic luxury accessories brand, Roger Vivier Book Launch held at London's Saatchi Gallery. The book, published by Rizzoli New York, maps the evolution of Roger Vivier from a legendary shoe brand to the contemporary but sophisticated Parisian accessories house.
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David Gandy Attends Vogue Dinner in Honor of Michael Kors
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Yesterday evening, April 25, 2013, David Gandy, looking dapper in a dark blue pin stripped suite, attended a dinner in honor of American fashion designer Micheal Kors. The event was hosted by Vogue magazine editor Alexandra Shulman and was held at Cafe Royal in London..jpg)
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David Gandy Attends the Launch of Goodwood Sports & Racing Collection by Belstaff
On April 25, 2013 David Gandy attended the launch event of Goodwood Sports & Racing menswear collection by Belstaff. Hosted by Harrods’ managing director Michael Ward and Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara.
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Belstaff and Goodwood, two of the most iconic British luxury brands, have joined forces to create menswear Goodwood Sports & Racing Collection by Belstaff. Bringing together their shared ardour for adrenaline-fueled sport, courage and exhilaration, the catalyst for this union is a passion for British machines of speed, power and beauty, together with the heroes that mastered and adored them. The Goodwood Sports & Racing Collection by Belstaff focuses on reviving and re-interpreting luxury classics from the annals of the Goodwood racing archive. Goodwood was the spiritual home of British motor racing between 1948 and 1966 and today is the home of the largest annual motor-culture events in the world. The GSR by Belstaff collection takes its lead from Goodwood’s living history and is centered on the iconic outerwear jackets, for which Belstaff became famous at Goodwood in the 1950s and 60’s.
Source:Goodwood.co.uk & Senatus.net
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