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David Gandy

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“They will try to bring you down in many ways and put doubts in your mind. You know, it's like the back-handed comment, as I always sort of call it. It's hard for someone. I've learned that from other people's comments and what they've said to me, and I'd make sure I never ever do that. And always just encourage people. And if I can help, I will help them. And that's probably where my investments have come from in many ways is I have had this opportunity and I haven't borrowed a penny in my life to get to where I was. When I first went to New York for modeling, I used to go around and couldn't afford to eating nice places. So every time I'd go on like castings, I was walking around all day and going to shoots, I would then go past a diner and they would have a special deal onto it. It would be like a burger, fry and something else for $5.95. And I would write it down and go, I've got a member to come back here because it's $5.95 plus taxes. And I suppose I can have a beer and it might be $10. That's the way I used to have to think because I just didn't have anything.”
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“There's also the side that, and it's not about money, it's about success, there's a lot of people that actually don't particularly want other people to do well.”
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“Question, I suppose. Have you blitten off too much than you can shoot? Harsher critic to me as I am myself I will beat myself up in something failures. I will beat myself up if I don't do the best job. No one can affect me like that by actually saying anything because I'm my worst critic So, yeah, that's actually a good point of what that voice is going to say to me.”
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“I'm still thinking that today to be found out. You do that by putting yourself at risk at something. I suppose there is the risk and reward. So everything I do that has to be a slight risk. Otherwise, it's not sort of worth, I suppose me doing it. So there's always got to be that risk of failure in many ways. And I don't mind failure. I've learnt more from failure than I have from success, to be honest. And that risk element of, you know, vanity fair asking me to write an article. I mean, I'm not a writer. To do that is scary, and I won't have anyone write it for me. I have to do it. We're going back to the integrity thing. I have to do it That goes for sort of the fashion game to collaborating with brands to investing. It's a risk. There was an element of risk Into, I suppose, everything. And I suppose it makes life exciting.”
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“You're always waiting to be found out, I think, at the end of the day. You're always waiting for you sort of to go, okay, like, come on. If you've had a really good inning.”
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“And that's it. It keeps you, and I love that. No one takes themselves too seriously. And I think hopefully that's what I didn't do too much is. And I always said to people, if models ever come up to me now and say, what made you different or how did what did you learn? I said, I never believed my own hype. It's very easy once you see yourself in articles and winning awards and everyone's telling you how amazing you are to believe that. But I suppose I never really did.”
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“Friends have never changed. We're still all on WhatsApp groups and see each other. I don't see them as much. They all live closer together. And that's a shame, really, but it's just never changed. I get the absolute. I'm just an easy target You can just Google my name. They watch so many pictures that get putting online. Okay, I can't really say much of that.”
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“And then there was me, and we'd just done the campaign with auction Gabana, and then we went to R&D Light Blue. But that the day it came out, it just changed everything. I mean, it literally changed everything. And I hate when people say that. But it was went from that campaign going out in the afternoon, phone not stopping. And I think I went to New York and my agency is called up and just said, we've got the telegraph, the Times, the mirror. They all want to speak to you. They all want to have an interview with you. And we didn't have PRs at that point. I was like, okay, how does this work? Very green about it all, but exciting that change.”
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“That's what I did. And in a way, I just looked at the models and Tyson Beckwist and Titan Ballou and Paul Scholfer and all these different people that were the Levi's guys. The famous Levi's ads that we used to look at in the Rafflerin guys, I was like, they're all big, muscular, classically handsome guys, and they were the biggest in the industry. So I just thought this has got to come around at one point. So when it actually came around to that creative for light blue, of course, there was a smaller pop because everyone had followed each other.”
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“Light blue is the reason I'm here the famous commercial. But again, you could look back to that that when I came into modelling, The circle of the fashion world at that stage of what was seen as fashionable was the small androgynous skinny guy. Now, I'm over six foot two. I was quite skinny when I came in, but I built up and I just got bigger. And everyone else said. Need to get smaller, you need to fit in, you need to, you're too big, you're getting too big. That's where I was happiest. I wasn't doing it for reading you. I was always playing sport. I want to continue. I couldn't play sporting whilst I was in the gym and it was, you know, to have a good physique and to be healthy was the way I was happiest in my head, in my well-being.”
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“What's your goal? And it doesn't just happen. Yes, there's certain opportunities that come around that people approach you. But we approach a lot of people with ideas and we approach a lot of people we would love to do this. It was us who wanted to do that collaboration. And I wanted to do it with one of the biggest British institutions everyone knows and everyone has a great finger. I want to do it with M&S. We had lots of different brands approach us. didn't want to do that we wanted to do it with MNS and that again looked at we didn't start off by adjusting collaboration and you know a huge deal it was I had to model for two years with them prove that I could sell prove that I could work with MNS then we talk about collaboration then we would move on and Then they trusted me. It's not a finger click, you know, it's”
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“So, every sort of everything that people say, well, you were lucky to work with Dolching Habana. And I can say, well, let me tell you how the story of how we went to meet Dolching Nabana, how we instigated that. Wasn't luck. Of strategy and it was not my, I think at the time everyone's going, you are Armani, you are Raftlin, you're Armani, you're Raftar, and it was Tandy Andsen who said you are Dolching Gabani, you are Dolching Gabana. Don't listen to anyone else. You are Dolchin. It was her genius that said and then sort of instigated this meeting with them. And then through that and working with Daniel, working with Select, everything we've achieved is strategy. It's gone out. It's like, think what do you want to achieve? What do you want to”
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“Annoys me if someone says, you're very lucky. And I feel like I have to go on this statement and go, hang on, let me just tell you about You haven't seen the hard work that's gone in there. And I realize that sort of gets you nowhere. So listen, I... Was fortunate to be born like I am, six foot two with a frame I have. Way I look, and people perceive that as. The way they do, and it's you can make money from that Hugely fortunate As you said before, there are 25 better looking guys on that board there are 50 better models I've just cast ten of them for my brand they were better models than me they're better spokespeople than me I was fortunate to be in that position but then you and so you make your own luck you maybe you do”
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“That was the platform pretty much from there. And then we could put the team together to say, where do you want to be in three years? Where's the next three years after that? Where do you want to achieve? And I'm big believer in having goals. Not always having to achieve them, things change. But I'm big believing having goals so you know roughly where you want to end up at something. And then gamers are life is like a game of chess and you're moving pieces to get to that checkmate to where you want to be. And often it diverts and you have to have different tactics. But you have to have that ambition to know the exact point to where you want to be. Of course, and you get there and being maybe an entrepreneur or typical person I am, then I'm on to the next thing and not particularly satisfied. And I've achieved that. So what's the next achievement? Where do you go from there?”
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“Get to where you want to be. So, every bit of that work, and I said we're earning very good money. I just quit everything. We said no to all the campaign, no to all the catalogues. And as she said to me, like in a position where that's what most models are dreaming of, earning what, not dreaming of, but that's, you know, they see yours as an enviable position. I said, Dan, it's just not what I want to do. I'm not happy doing it. So to me, I had nothing to lose because I wouldn't have carried on. So we then started building up this other perception of me within the fashion industry, not the catalogue model, not the commercial model, but editorial, a bit more sort of fashion-based. And that's when we instigated a meeting with Dolching Gabana. And that's when I did their campaign. The campaign led to light blue. And Light Blue is, to me, a tick in the box for then to achieve what I wanted to achieve. And it was phenomenal success. And it still is. But that was what I needed.”
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“Got the answers I wanted, and I all realised that it was a business for them. They had great teams, they had great agencies, they had PRs and PAs, it was run as a business, and then you had the guys who were at the top of the fashion at the time. It wasn't a business for them. It was a lovely way of making a living, and they were felt very fortunate to be there some of the time not even admitting that they were models, they were in advertising or marketing. There's a lot of people used to say. And I just used the female platform. And I went to head of my agency, Tandy Anderson, and said, I don't want to this commercial work anymore. It doesn't satisfy me. It's not when she said, what do you want to do? I said, if I'm going to do this, I want to be the best at it. And she said, right, literally from tomorrow, I've saved this a million times, you have to stop all that commercial work because we have to, you have to be perceived then in a total different light to.”
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“Easiest one to say is probably the modelling one to start off with, and that was. I questioned why Men weren't in the same position as the female supermoles. And you had the equivalent of the male supermodels at the time and you always have that. But they were never to that level. fame, of financial rewards of As the female supermodels, and I questioned that, that was all and thought, is there a possibility? Is there almost, I suppose, a gap in the market the first five years, no one actually realizes that I really didn't do that much for the first five or six years. It was, of course, we didn't struggle and it was a lot of... Catalog work earning really good money wasn't what I wanted to do, but I got to work with Sir Chrissy Turnson, Naomi Campbell and those people. And she just observed them and asked them questions.”
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“I never believed my own height. It's very easy once you see yourself in articles and winning awards and everyone's telling you how amazing you are. But I suppose I never really did. And I didn't fit in particularly well and I've seen the extremities of mental health. Me, myself going to dark periods where nothing would, nothing would suffice, nothing would cheer you up. If you haven't got a thick skin, you shouldn't be in this game.”
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