![]() ![]() The name Hu Bing not ring any bells? He’s big in China and is the first international menswear ambassador for the British Fashion Council. And, as is afforded by having perfectly sculpted everything, Souteyrand keeps it simple when it comes to clothing and still looks great. At 40, model and personal trainer Souteyrand has cultivated a torso toned enough to make men half his age sign up for HIIT classes.Īs well as making the fashion industry sit up and take note of a more traditional ‘fitness model’, Souteyrand has distilled his tips and tricks into his own fitness and nutrition guide, so that the un-swole likes of us can inch closer to Greek god territory. Providing larger men with a template for how to dress for their size, Miko is an encouraging rarity in an industry starved of realistic role models, and he does a cracking job of shutting up those who claim that clothes only suit certain body shapes.įrenchman Souteyrand is a walking wake-up call for all those men who think that body beautiful is the preserve of the young. In the few years that have followed Miko’s signing, the male body positivity movement has taken flight, with brands slowly waking up to the fact that men of every size should be representated. And, if we’re even a tenth as cool as Rutherford in decades to come, we’ll be very happy indeed.Īt 6’6 and with a 40 inch waist, Zach Miko doesn’t fit into the narrow confines of the textbook male model, but thanks to modelling agency IMG’s (dubiously named) ‘brawn division’ men way beyond being a beanpole are no longer being locked out of the fashion game. To that end, Rutherford’s doing a heroic job of demonstrating that the young guns aren’t the only ones who can enjoy picking menswear’s ripest fruit. Now in his 50s(!), Rutherford hasn’t let age become an excuse to make nondescript baggy chinos and a miscellaneous fading polo shirt his go-to uniform. And he does it all in life’s dreaded middle stages. Oh, and showing men that traditional British tailoring has plenty of life in it yet, of course.Īmerican model Eric Rutherford is one of those annoying men who looks good in everything while moving between suiting and casualwear with ease. When he’s not making eyeballs pop out of their sockets in his underwear, Gandy’s busy directing his own short films, investing in small brands and throwing his megawattage behind charitable causes. And it’s thanks to a mixture of weight room dedication, a generous dose of genetic gold dust and genuine fashion credentials.Ī pro at mixing high-fashion campaigns with accessible high-street product lines, his work combines D&G and M&S. Would-be Instamodels take note.ĭavid Gandy is about the only person on the planet who could make Michelangelo’s namesake statue look a bit rough around the edges in comparison. ![]() When Dallas isn’t making millions by goofing around, he’s modelling for the likes of Dolce & Gabbana while effectively filling the non-threatening attractive male void that was left by the disbandment of One Direction. He has 20m Instagram followers at the time of writing, which is 3m more than Barack Obama. ![]() YouTube and Vine (RIP) were the launch pad for this American online personality, whose modelling career is a side-gig for his full-time occupation of documenting his waking life to a frankly staggering audience. Once upon a time young men rocked up to modelling agencies with a few amateur snaps and an overzealous mother, but if Cameron Dallas is anything to go by, things have changed. Peak hipster may have subsided, but Huxley’s still got us wishing we were cool enough to go heavy on the facial hair, tattoos, leather and jewellery without looking completely and utterly ridiculous. Putting that divisive achievement aside, in an industry where models are expected to be a blank canvas, Huxley’s decidely unblank canvas (he’s teeming with tattoos) marked a new kind of men’s style icon where clothes are almost secondary to body mods. Whether you consider it admirable or unforgivable, Billy Huxley is one of OG beard wearers who spawned thousands of hairy-hipster imitators. In a world where being a name and a face is enough to get cash-registers ringing furiously, the fact that Cabral’s fancy footwear shows a genuine understanding of design is music to our ears, and feet. That’s not the case with Portugal-raised model Armando Cabral who can back up being generally elegant and expensive-looking with being the designer of an eponymous shoe brand that is every bit as tasteful in appearance as the man himself. ![]()
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