Andreja Pejić
Andreja Pejić is a Bosnian-Australian model. Before coming out as a trans woman in late 2013, Pejić was known as the first androgynous supermodel. Today, she is one of the most recognisable transgender models in the world. Pejić was born in Tuzla and has one older brother, Igor, her mother, Jadranka Savić, is a Bosnian Serb, her father, Vlado Pejić, is a Bosnian Croat. The couple divorced shortly after Pejić's birth. During the Bosnian War, Pejić and Igor fled to Serbia with their mother and grandmother, settling in a refugee camp near Belgrade. After the refugee camp, the family settled in the Vojska village near Svilajnac. Following the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Pejić's mother felt unsafe and decided to initiate the process of emigration to Australia. In 2000, the family moved to Melbourne, Australia as political refugees when Pejić was eight years old. While attending high school at University High, Pejić was described as being "academically brilliant". Pejić was scouted as a model just before her 17th birthday while working at McDonald's, though she has said in an interview that she was scouted at a swimming pool while still in high school in Melbourne.
Pejić was notable for modelling both masculine and feminine clothing. In the Paris fashion shows of January 2011, Pejić walked both the men's and women's shows for Jean-Paul Gaultier and the men's shows for Marc Jacobs. In May 2011, her magazine cover for the New York-based magazine Dossier Journal—in which Pejić is pictured taking off a white shirt with long blond locks in curlers—was ruled too risqué by US bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders, which covered the image with an opaque sleeve. Concerns were expressed that customers would read Pejić, who at the time was presenting as gender fluid, as a topless woman. At the Stylenite in July 2011, Pejić appeared on the catwalk both in masculine and feminine clothes from Michalsky; the following year, she modeled bridal creations by Spanish designer Rosa Clara at Barcelona's Bridal Week 2013. Pejić ranked number 18 on Models.com's Top 50 Models list in 2011, was named one of Out's Most Compelling People, was ranked number 98 in FHM magazine's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2011, an award, criticised for its hostile tone to transgender individuals transgender women.
FHM subsequently posted an apology. Pejić has appeared on the covers of international editions of Elle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Fashion and GQ. Andreja has appeared in editorials for fashion publications including Vogue, Elle, I-D, Dazed and Confused, Allure and Numéro. On 6 August 2012, Pejić appeared as a guest judge on Ireland's Next Top Model; the following year, Pejić appeared alongside Iselin Steiro, Saskia de Brauw, Tilda Swinton and David Bowie in the video for Bowie's 2013 single "The Stars". In late 2013, she made her acting debut playing Radu the Beautiful in the short-lived Turkish television series Fatih, based on the life of Mehmed the Conqueror. Pejić became the first transgender model profiled by Vogue, in its May 2015 issue, became the first-ever trans woman to sign a cosmetics contract. In 2016, Pejić was awarded "Best International Female Model" by GQ Portugal and the following year she made history by becoming the first transgender woman to appear on the cover of GQ.
Pejić made her major film debut in the 2018 crime thriller film The Girl in the Spider's Web. In late 2013, Pejić underwent sex reassignment surgery. In September 2014, Pejić announced plans on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to create a film about her reassignment surgery and life as a transgender woman. Pejić started off with a projected goal of $40,000 exceeding the target funding goal. List of androgynous people Andreja Pejić at FTape.com Andreja Pejić at FMD Andreja Pejić at Models.com "Andrej Pejic, Androgynous Model, In High Demand" at Huffington Post
David Gandy
David James Gandy is a British model. After winning a televised competition in 2001, Gandy became a successful model. In an industry dominated by thin men, Gandy's muscular build caught the eye of Italian fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana. For several years, the duo featured him in their campaigns and fashion shows leading other designers to move to a more masculine standard. Gandy has been the face of D&G's Light Blue fragrance since 2006, shooting multiple campaigns and touring internationally as the brand's ambassador; the increase in his popularity and name recognition resulted in a broad portfolio of clients, magazine covers, editorial photo shoots, industry awards and television appearances. Having gained a reputation for his personal style, Gandy began writing a blog for British Vogue and lifestyle articles for Telegraph Men, he launched two mobile apps: one for physical fitness and the other for style tips. Soon thereafter, Gandy was appointed by the British Fashion Council to their committee for'London Collections: Men' to be a representative of the British fashion industry.
In 2014, he moved beyond modelling to designing his own range of underwear, lounge-wear and swimwear for Marks & Spencer, which became one of the company's top-selling clothing lines. Gandy was included on British GQ's list of'Best Dressed Men' and was named the'Most Stylish Man of the Year' in 2015 at their Men of the Year awards gala. Gandy has invested in small companies and film projects, he has participated in numerous charity fundraisers, most prominently as the celebrity ambassador for the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, Style for Soldiers charity and the'Blue Steel Appeal', his own non-profit foundation. A car enthusiast, Gandy started writing car reviews for GQ and Mayfair Times and has made televised appearances on Classic Car Show, he obtained a racing license in 2012 and competed in the 2013 and 2015 Mille Miglia Italian endurance races as well as powerboat races with Martini Racing. Gandy was born in Billericay, England, the son of parents who owned property and freight companies.
In his youth, he dabbled in a range of extra-curricular activities, including rugby, horse-riding and tap dancing. He wanted to be a veterinary surgeon but his school grades were not high enough. While attending university, he went to work for Auto Express, delivering the latest Porsches and Jaguars to the track for testing. Before graduating from the University of Gloucestershire, where he was studying multi-media computing and marketing, Gandy's flatmate entered him into a model-search competition on ITV's This Morning hosted by Richard and Judy. On 27 June 2001, the 21-year-old Gandy won the competition which included a contract with Select Model Management in London. During the early years of his career, Gandy modelled for a variety of companies including: Shiatzy Chen, 7 for all Mankind, Gant USA, Hugo Boss, Russell & Bromley, H&M, Carolina Herrera, Massimo Dutti and others. In 2006, when most of the male models working runways and advertisements were skinny and androgynous, Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana chose the muscular 6 ft 3in tall Gandy to be the face of their apparel campaigns and fashion shows.
For more than six years, he was featured prominently by the duo, working with female supermodels such as Gemma Ward, Scarlett Johansson, Gisele Bündchen and Naomi Campbell as well as male models Noah Mills, Tony Ward, Adam Senn and others. Gandy was best known for the 2007 advert of Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance'Light Blue' with Marija Vujović which had 11,000,000 online views and saw a 50-foot billboard of him displayed in Times Square, he modelled for their limited-edition 2008 calendar, shot by photographer, Mariano Vivanco. In 2009, portrait and fashion photographer Rankin recreated seven iconic photographs in a BBC Four Special entitled, "Seven Photographs That Changed Fashion." He selected Gandy to recreate'Fred with Tires' shot by Herb Ritts in 1984. Gandy returned as the face of the second'Light Blue' fragrance campaign for 2010, but this time with Anna Jagodzinska, he made a short promotional film for W Hotels with Helena Christensen called "Away We Stay". In 2011, the fashion house published "David Gandy by Dolce & Gabbana", a 280-page photographic coffee table book of images chronicling their years of collaboration and they hosted public events in Milan where Gandy met fans and signed autographs.
In 2012, he began to model for British retailer Marks & Spencer and was named the brand ambassador for Johnnie Walker Blue Label. In 2013, Dolce & Gabbana released the third version of the'Light Blue' fragrance campaign featuring Gandy. Once again, Mario Testino filmed the adverts and commercial on location in the island of Capri, in southern Italy but this time with Italian model Bianca Balti in the female role. Mid-year, Bionda Castana, a British shoe label, released a fashion film featuring Gandy called "David Gandy's Goodnight." In it, he seduces several women who discover that he has stolen their shoes. In September and Jaguar released a short film called "Escapism" which featured Gandy driving models such as the C-Type, E-Type, XKSS as well as the new F-Type. At the end of October, Gandy was named the face of SM Men's Fashion and made a brief runway appearance during Philippine Fashion Week. In November, Marks & Spencer launched their 2013 Christmas advertising campaign, "Magic & Sparkle".
The fairy-tale-themed commercial featured Rosie Huntington-Whiteley with Helena Bonham Carter and Gandy. In May 2014, Gandy was cast as Jennifer Lopez's love interest in her "First Love" music video; the video, directed
Joséphine Le Tutour
Joséphine Le Tutour is a French model. Joséphine Le Tutour won the French edition of Elite Model Look and represented her country for the international contest where she placed seventh, she has a baccalauréat ES. Not long after graduating, she was sent to Australia in order to learn how to pose and walk the runway, her brother Jules is a model signed to Elite Model Management. They walked for Sonia Rykiel together in 2015. Throughout her career, she advertised Alberta Ferretti, Bottega Veneta, Carolina Herrera, Chloé, Derek Lam, Diane von Fürstenberg, Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Hugo Boss, Jil Sander, Joe Fresh, Michael Kors, Ports 1961, Tiffany & Co. Vera Wang, VINCE. Y-3 and Zara, she walked more than 300 fashion shows including Alexander McQueen, Anthony Vaccarello, Calvin Klein, Carven, Cédric Charlier, Céline, Elie Saab, Giambattista Valli, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Missoni, Nina Ricci, Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel, Stella McCartney, Vanessa Bruno, Véronique Leroy, Marie Desnos. "Vous allez entendre parler de Joséphine Le Tutour".
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Kelly Gale
Kelly Olivia Gale is a Swedish-Australian model of Indian and Australian heritage. Kelly is known globally for her work for Victoria's Secret, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Playboy, as well as being featured in the music video of Duele el Corazón by Enrique Iglesias. Gale was raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, she lived in Ghana for four years, Australia. Her mother, was born in Pune and was adopted by a Swedish family at age 5, she has two younger brothers and Jamie. Gale has been involved in sports since an early age, she played soccer with Näsets SK in tennis since she was seven years old. She attended Göteborgs Högre Samskola. At age 13, she was discovered by a model agent outside a coffee shop in Gothenburg. Gale's parents were opposed to her working as a model but she started modeling one year later. One of her first modelling jobs was for H&M. Gale's first big fashion show was Chanel in 2012. In 2013, she was chosen to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for the first time, she has since walked the show in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Gale has been in adverts and catalogues of H&M and H-I-G-H. She has walked runways for Azzedine Alaia, Monique Lhuillier, Tommy Hilfiger, Band of Outsiders, Narciso Rodriguez, Badgley Mischka, Vivienne Tam, Ralph Lauren, Christopher Kane, Reem Acra, Tom Ford, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Academy of Arts, Diane von Fürstenberg, Nanette Lepore, L'Wren Scott, Thomas Tait, Rag & Bone and Victoria's Secret, she has been featured on the cover of French Revue des Modes, on editorials of Teen Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue India and Lucky. In 2016, Gale is the Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 2016. Gale leads a healthy lifestyle, paying particular attention to the type of food she eats, she trains for 2–3 hours each day and ramps up the tempo in the weeks prior to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Her fitness regime includes power walking, jogging and yoga. Kelly Gale at FMD Kelly Gale on Models.com Kelly Gale on IMDb
Tyson Ritter
Tyson Jay Ritter is an American singer, musician and model. He is best known as the lead vocalist, bassist and songwriter of the multi-platinum selling American alternative rock band The All-American Rejects; as an actor, Ritter appeared as Dane on Amazon Video's Betas, recurred as rock musician Oliver Rome on NBC's Parenthood, has had supporting roles in films, including The House Bunny and Miss You Already. As of 2018, Ritter plays recurring characters on two television series on AMC, Preacher and Lodge 49. Ritter was born on April 24, 1984 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Tim Jay Ritter, his mother is an employee at Stillwater Public Schools. He has an older brother, Dr. Zack S. Ritter, DDS, an endodontist, a younger sister, Bailey Ritter, he and his siblings graduated from Stillwater High School. Ritter met his bandmates. After Jesse Tabish quit the band, with the additions of Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylor, The All-American Rejects were picked up by Doghouse Records, DreamWorks Records, signed with the major label Interscope Records.
In early 2018, the band left Interscope, is unsigned. The All-American Rejects have released four albums to date, have sold over 10 million albums worldwide and 4 million singles. Ritter has appeared in television series and films such as House, The House Bunny and Parenthood. On November 5, 2013, Ritter released the song "Air" as a solo song to help "ride between the Rejects' next record", featured on Parenthood. Shortly after the release of "Air" Tyson wrote the song "Collide", featured on Parenthood; the song is still available on sites like YouTube. Ritter's next projects included a role in Mercy, he had been cast in the lead role of singer Gregg Allman in the biopic Midnight Rider, directed by Randall Miller, but the film was halted in production, cancelled, due to the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones. In 2015, he had a supporting role in the comedy-drama film Miss You Already, which starred Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore. On February 23, 2018, Ritter revealed via his personal Twitter that he is in the process of "putting together a record and a band of own".
Ritter and actress Elena Satine were married on New Year's Eve that year. He has been best friends with bandmate Nick Wheeler since they met in high school. Ritter is an investor in various tech companies including Hooch App. Ritter likes to use Fender bass guitars, he had used Epiphone Flying V or Epiphone Explorer basses during the era of The All-American Rejects, until he started to favor a Fender Precision Bass and started using them more in his songs. Ritter was seen using a Gibson Thunderbird bass on their early tours for Move Along and with a rare Jackson Guitars V Bass, he later used Fender Jaguar Bass guitars for tours before switching back to Fender Precision Basses. Tyson Ritter on IMDb Tyson Ritter on Twitter
Paul Sculfor
Paul Sculfor is a British male model as well as a TV and film actor. Between the ages of eight to ten, Sculfor studied gymnastics, when he was 10, he joined the Dagenham Boxing Club, he had one competitive fight for them, at 15, a late start in the boxing world. He joined the Alma Boxing Club and competed with them for the next three years; as a schoolboy, Sculfor reached the semi-final. In his teenage boxing career, he won the South East England title. Between the ages of 12 to 14, he competed as a schoolboy in the trampoline event and finished in the top three for three years in a row. Sculfor's grandfather was John Hawkridge, a decorated British sergeant in the Second World War, who owned a number of market stalls in the famous East End's Roman Road and Rathbone Street markets; as a kid, Sculfor spent nearly all his weekends there. At the age of 21, Sculfor won the modelling competition'The Face of 92' in association with Select Model Management and the Daily Mirror. Sculfor was unaware; the judges included the owner of Select Model Management and Gary Stretch.
Sculfor's first modelling job was for The Face magazine and in the autumn of 1993, Sculfor worked alongside Bridget Hall on the winter/fall 1993 campaign for Banana Republic, shot by prolific photographer Bruce Weber. The campaign featured on billboards all over New York's Times Square. Sculfor soon moved to Europe, where he was working out of Milan and Paris with the likes of Giorgio Armani and Jean Paul Gaultier, Paul Smith and Valentino. In 1994 Sculfor and Laurence Vanhaeverbeke modelled for the Christian Dior fragrance Tendre Poison, photographed by Tyen, the campaign ran for three years. Due to his success as a male model, he has been referred to as'the original supermodel'. One article commented on'the face that's worth a million dollars'. Patrick Cox, 1993 Versace with Gisele Bundchen, 2009 Louis Vuitton, 2011 Aramis, 2012"Esquire, 2012 Other – for a full list of campaigns visit Models.com Attitude Magazine, 1997. Out Magazine, 2009. Fantastic Man, July 2005. Levi's Campaign, 1997. Directed by Michel Gondry.
Lynx Campaign, 2001 with Lisa Snowdon. Landrover, 2006. Freelander campaign shot in Thailand. Next Campaign, 2007 with Alessandra Ambrosio. Next Campaign, 2008. Aramis Campaign, 2011. Louis Vuitton Campaign, 2011. Di Di Hollywood … Steve Richards Psychosis … David Baseline … Mark Britain's Next Top Model … Himself/Judge Cinema 3 … Himself Light Lunch … Himself "Five A Side" … Lee Kennedy Death in Paradise … Nicky Dexter – Episode 4.2 San Remo Festival, 2009. In 2009, Sculfor was the co-host for the San Remo Festival alongside Paolo Bonolis, the first time a male had presented alongside Mr. Bonolis as it was a female presenter. Most Stylish Man Award as part of the GQ and Ermenegildo Zegna Elegant Men of The Year' awards in 2010. Prior to getting married, Sculfor had a series of high-profile girlfriends, including Lisa Snowdon, Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz. In 2016, Sculfor married socialite Federica Amati. List of people on the cover of Attitude magazine Paul Sculfor on IMDb Models.com page for Paul Sculfor BNTM profile Us magazine profile for Paul Sculfor