![\"male-model-catwalk\"](\"https:\/\/www.ukmodels.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/shutterstock_631514720.jpg\")
<\/p>\nIf weird happenings were to occur anywhere in the fashion industry, it\u2019s at Fashion Week. All hail paper wigs and Vivienne Westwood 9inch platforms that caused Naomi Campbell to crash down in 1993.<\/p>\n
Designers go to extremes during collection previews in the hope that fashion followers will talk (and tweet). Their aim is that the stranger\/more striking\/absolutely over the top items paraded down the catwalk will get masses of media attention and thus raise brand awareness. It\u2019s a smart tool to success but one that models are sometimes reservedly dragged into. After all, it\u2019s them who\u2019ve got to wear it!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Cast your eye down the AW 2014 London Collections: Men catwalks and you\u2019ll soon see that male models don\u2019t escape the drama. Splattered across the papers this week is JW Anderson\u2019s famed gender blurring designs, loafers with pretty bows, male clutch bags and chunky wedge shoes. The Mail Online\u2019s headline caught the public\u2019s attention in a split second, \u2018Male models take to the catwalk in HEELS\u2019 and now everyone\u2019s talking about it.<\/p>\n
If you are a model, you can\u2019t be fazed by this style of fashion. Models, especially catwalk models, need to be open-minded and willing to wear anything thrown their way (we\u2019ve seen lobsters dangled over heads before). Models arrive at work as a blank canvas and are employed to show off any garment, accessory, and item regardless of whether it\u2019s something they\u2019d wear in the street.<\/p>\n
The same goes for the hair, boys. Take part in high street catalogue work, commercial or mainstream modelling and the chances are you\u2019ll have it brushed and finished off with a bit of hairspray. Include yourself in the madness of fashion week and oh, you\u2019ll soon realise that those styles were so last year. There\u2019s a huge difference between catwalk modelling and commercial\/catalogue modelling and it\u2019s important you know about both before taking the venture on. We can offer you as much knowledge and advice as you like in person, or you can get started now by logging onto our website for a full introduction.<\/p>\n
This season, Alexander McQueen stunned us suitably. Who saw the rough and ready wet look hair? We say wet look, it was actually damp, as in models just had their heads soaked with water. (Cast your mind back to the last time you got caught in a rainstorm and felt pretty chilly thereafter, now pretend you\u2019re being employed to look like that for a handful more hours. Yes, catwalk modelling\u2019s tough.) During the shows we also saw fringes that were splattered across the face and heads that were finished with black crow\u2019s feathers.<\/p>\n
GQ named \u2018The Middle Part\u2019 (centre parting) as an \u2018Avoid it\u2019 trend for the everyday man, but it didn\u2019t stop design teams sending it down the runway. Also on their weird and wonderful hit list was the blue headed men at James Long \u2013 we believe they wore wraps over their hair, although from a distance it looked like blue paint – still, the boys walked professionally, and Katie Eary allowed Mickey Mouse face masks to take centre stage.<\/p>\n
To finish the madness off, UK Models spotted gold face casing at Nasir Mazhar, silver lips at Man and metallic headwear over white and grey painted bodies at KTZ.<\/p>\n
If you didn\u2019t believe us first time around that catwalk models have to be open minded, you will now. And, whilst we\u2019re offering advice, let us warn you that this is an extremely competitive sector to break into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If weird happenings were to occur anywhere in the fashion industry, it\u2019s at Fashion Week. All hail paper wigs and Vivienne Westwood 9inch platforms that caused Naomi Campbell to crash down in 1993. Designers go to extremes during collection previews in the hope that fashion followers will talk (and tweet). Their aim is that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,130,137,138,155],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fashion-week","tag-london-collections","tag-male-fashion","tag-male-models-2","tag-modelling"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n