The Story Of Male Supermodel Fashion Tried To Destroy - David Gandy

He was studying to be a vet in Essex when his university housemate secretly entered him into a modeling competition on morning television. He won. For five years after that, no designer wanted him. He was too muscular. He didn't fit the sample sizes. He was sent home from catwalk after catwalk without walking. The industry told him to change his body or leave. He refused both. Then in 2006, Dolce & Gabbana took a chance on a 50-foot Times Square billboard — David Gandy in tiny white swim trunks, lying in a dinghy off the coast of Capri. The image became the most famous male fashion advertisement of the 21st century and forced an entire industry to rewrite what a male model could look like. This is the story of the man fashion rejected — until it needed him to save itself.