David Gandy: Male models are “the lowest of the low” on the fashion totem pole

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Maybe I just relish a chance to use “David Gandy” and “pole” in the same headline. Maybe I just enjoy looking up photos of David Gandy. Maybe it’s really, really slow today. Maybe it’s all of the above. Anyway, my lover David Gandy has given a new interview where he talks about his history as a male model. You see, David wasn’t always recognized universally as this heartthrob beauty – when he started out, many people told him he was “too big” to be a model. And then he got even bigger (and more beautiful), and then Dolce came calling. But Gandy still remembers the hard times:

David Gandy is proud to be a model. The hunky catwalk star admits films such as ‘Zoolander’ – about a group of egotistical male models – have given his career a poor reputation in the past, but now he believes people are finally starting to have respect for him.

He said: “People still just think ‘Zoolander’, and to come out with your pride and dignity intact is probably quite hard in this business. Now there are younger guys coming in who want to be models. I’m actually proud to say I’m a model now. You pay your dues of not being listened to, but now people are starting to say, ‘Maybe this guy’s onto something.’ ”

However, while he is no longer ashamed of his job, David says it is hard to work in an industry where males are given so much less respect than their female counterparts.

He told Sunday Times Style magazine: “Trust me to end up working in the only industry in the world where women get paid more than men, and treated loads better. We’re trying to change that. In the hierarchy of a shoot, you have the photographer, the female model, the stylists, the assistants, then the male model. You are the lowest of the low.”

[From Contact Music]

Poor, poor, lowest of the low Gandy. Hey, David, while you’re down there being “the lowest of the low” could you do something for me? Just a second, let me take off my pants.

Anyway, yeah, I hate to say it, but my lover sounds a bit whiny in this interview. I know he’s trying to educate, and bless his heart for trying to get men to dress better and all of that. I really think he’s trying to butch up male modeling, see if he can get more “big” guys in there.

Oh, and as far as the Zoolander reference… it’s funny because I often think David is doing the EXACT “Blue Steel” face.

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Photos courtesy of WENN, and Dolce archives.

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  1. cringer says:

    hot

  2. Rita says:

    I don’t usually comment on beef-cake, even HGF but I must say…..no I better not. (Breathe deep, concentrate on Lady Gaga’s meat dress.)

  3. the original bellaluna says:

    Not bad to look at, but for the romp of my lifetime, I’ll take Gerry, the Clive, or Mr. Original Bellaluna. I know one of them is awesome, and I assume the other two are as well.

  4. Marjalane says:

    He kind of gives me the creeps. I think I prefer the Gabriel Aubrey type of vacant pretty boy….

  5. nnn says:

    I don’t care what he says, he can be the lowest of the low, i’ll pick him up.

    i want him for breakfast, diner, apetizer and desert.

  6. Carrie B. says:

    His nipples are taunting me, beckoning me to take them in my teeth.

    Ok, I need to leave this page immediately before I embarass myself further.

  7. Roma says:

    My exboyfriend was a very hot German who worked for Ford Models. He mostly did runway and used his funding to pay his way through university and later his masters.

    I make fun of him often for just being pretty but he is a very articulate, successful entrepreneur. He used to say that especially at the shoots they were treated like man meat, moved around as props for the female models.

    And everytime he talked about this all I could think of was “mmmm…. man meat.”

    David Gandy is some hot man meat.

  8. truthSF says:

    But Gandy, in the words of Maxwell “your the highest of my high.”

  9. Crash2GO2 says:

    Dear God. SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!

    I want to know what exactly they thought was too big about him to be a male model? *blush*

  10. brin says:

    Good thing you can’t short out your computer with drool.

  11. devilgirl says:

    He is hot????? Ummm, well, okay then.

  12. Praise St. Angie! says:

    meh, he doesn’t do it for me…but to each his own, after all…I know some of my “freebies” would make people go “HUH?!”

    and those blue eyes look like contacts to me.

  13. amoteafloat says:

    Oh, *WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!*

    SHUT THE HELL UP, David Gandy. Modeling might be the ONLY profession in which women hold more power than men, but that’s debatable, given how many gay dudes there are in the industry barking at women to dress/look a certain (emaciated) way.

    He’s still a rich, good-looking white man, and thus has a billion advantages over most other people, so I REALLY fail to see why anyone at all should feel sorry for him.

    What a narcissistic asshat.

  14. TXCinderella says:

    Yes, that’s it, lower…lower.

  15. TeeTee says:

    woooo chile!!!

    you can just slowly swim into his eyes, lovelyjustlovely

    thanks CB, I just came in and I needed to be warmed up a lil (wiggle wiggle)

  16. lilred says:

    Oh wow, he found the one profession where men make less than women…boohoo. Women have been making less than men in every profession with the possible exception of prostitution for centuries.

  17. bizzy says:

    honey, if your ‘dignity’ is that important to you, maybe not to take a job where you get money for removing your clothes. just a guideline.

  18. Quest says:

    OMG…I think I just got all hot with these photos (mouth watering hotttnesss) Absolutely delish

  19. Vi says:

    this guy is so sheltered. the lowest of the low? really?

  20. Toe says:

    Everything of Gandy that is “TOO BIG” can come to my modeling agency!! I’ll take him any second!!

  21. Brianna says:

    amoteafloat, you are completely right! I had the same thought reading it.

  22. latam2012 says:

    he’s hot in photos but then i saw him on johnathan ross and his mouth is annoying. plus he seemed a bit douchey and not particularly humble

  23. viper says:

    ….yummy

  24. Lily says:

    I have a weakness for models, especially the older, less boyish ones like David and Tyson Ballou. They can feel special in my bed anytime.

  25. beanie says:

    Photo #5-What the HELL is going on with those eyebrows? Eyes are pretty, but they are flat in color so could be contacts. And for the record…I’d hit it.

  26. Hautie says:

    Oh look… my David is wearing my favorite white Dolce panties! He knows how much I love those tiny white panties.

    Male models are like female models.

    The industry demands that you are built like a 12 year old boy.

    But 6ft tall.

    Oh and the men are expected to have a six-pack on the frame of a 12 year old boy.

  27. Xx says:

    Ho ly Shit!

  28. guilty pleasures says:

    Really a gorgeous male. Really.And, seriously, to all of you whose panties are in a bunch, please realize that he is speaking of the male role in modelling as being low on the totem pole, not his personal plight on this planet, and that he was being self-depracating when he said he chose the only career wherein males are paid less than females.
    For the love of dogs, let people be ironic, funny, tongue in cheek without leaping upon a soapbox to proclaim your superior socially conscious thought process.
    Have a giggle, a wiggle (:D) and move the F%$& on!!!

  29. sapphire says:

    All his photos should be in color-the eyes, the eyes. I wanna be a Gandydancer.

  30. Weeble says:

    He’s good looking, but the more he speaks the less attractive he becomes. Please, sir, STFU and pose quietly.

  31. bluhare says:

    My Darling Kaiser,

    Well, well, I see my favorite little strumpet has been looking around . . . you know how I like your undivided attention on my little white panties.

    You’re a bad, bad girl.

    Love,
    Clive

  32. JuliaGuglia says:

    Rofl @ bluhare 😀

  33. Kaiser says:

    bluehare – LOL! Yes, Clive is quite peeved that I’ve been spending so much time thinking about Gandy and Fassbender.

  34. natalie says:

    I love him!!!!! he is the only male model that I go crazy for. He is beautiful.

  35. poof says:

    I would ride his ummm toten pole anytime. And I mean anytime.

  36. Alix says:

    What a tool. If he had two brain cells to rub together, he’d realize that the real problem is that, in 2011, there is still virtually only ONE industry in the world in which women can expect to make more than men. ONE. And now he wants to glom onto that, too? Stick it up your well-chiseled ass, my dear.

  37. ADS says:

    Pretty pathetic thing for him to say. Does he mean those poor girls, normally from third world countries who starve themselves to make sure they get work are treated better than his ilk? Oh, those pesky much higher paid female models who if they are not booking significant jobs can possibly find themselves getting passed round numerous rich guys by the model reps under the guise of a ‘harmless date’. Not all models make it to Gisele, Kate or Lara stone revered status. He is chatting complete shit.

  38. Leona says:

    David,

    Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?

  39. dweeb says:

    I am a straight guy and i think i’d do him. Must be fun to look like that.

  40. dread pirate cuervo says:

    His body is hot, his face…meh. But, and I’ll let my female-chauvinism shine through here, I don’t like your prostitot poses. Lolita in a jockstrap doesn’t do it for me. I like manly men. Go dig a ditch or put down some pavers or something…manly.

  41. Gaby says:

    This man has the perfect body.

  42. clorismetchum says:

    i’m wet.

  43. olivia says:

    yum

  44. bubbles says:

    @dweeb
    ready to come out?

  45. Solveig says:

    Oh, I thought that the lowest of the low was being a politician.
    Maybe a Zoolander politician is the lowest lowest of the lowest low, something like this:
    http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=123049437764678&set=a.123049321098023.20200.123048807764741

    Sorry guys for scaring you.

  46. loveyourwork says:

    the “come hither” pose…
    reminds me of a really hot, dirty, pedophile uncle circa 1973.
    I’d rather quench my thirst with Tang.

  47. Megatrona says:

    Roma: are you from Toronto? Are you tall have kind of red hair?

    This guy is hot but I don’t like his hair

  48. I Choose Me says:

    meh, he doesn’t do it for me…but to each his own, after all…I know some of my “freebies” would make people go “HUH?!”

    @Praise. I’m with you girl esp. the last part. 🙂

  49. dweeb says:

    @ bubbles…..not yet 🙂

    I just wish I had a couple weeks lookin like that guy….sheet that would be fun

  50. JoanofArrk says:

    oh cry me a river, and idiot is wrong as the other industry that women get paid more in is the porn industry…duh, and he’s actually really greasy looking in the non advert photos

  51. truthzbetta says:

    “Boioioing” — my eyes just left my head.

    WOW.

  52. Spaniard says:

    amoteafloat,MTE I couldn’t have expressed it better.

  53. Vee says:

    I really enjoying looking at him, over and over.

  54. Kaboom says:

    I always thought the lowest of the low on the fashion totem pole are those who sew the clothes together in Cambodia and Bangladesh. Who’d thought I’m wrong!

  55. original kate says:

    i don’t get him.

  56. coucou says:

    HELL YEAH

    my mouth just dropped open as i filed through these shots…

    he is amazing

    i am saving these to my computer

    DAMN THAT’S SOME GANDY CANDY

    thank you K-babe

  57. MrsOdie2 says:

    Oh, boo hoo hoo. If only there were a profession he could get into where men made more money and got more respect than women do. Oh, wait, there is. It’s called EVERYTHING ELSE.

  58. Jay says:

    Why are so many people jumping at him? It’s not like he said women models should be lower than men. Let’s face it, male models generally are the slabs of meat. So why can’t he speak out about something everyone wants: equality and maybe a little respect. Granted women have been dealing with and fighting for the same thing for many years, but he shouldn’t be chasticed for speaking his opinion about the business just because he is a man.