![]() Same with a Dolce show - they’re oozing that sex when they walk down the runway. “At a Michael Kors show they’re taught to look more sexy and give it more. ![]() The male runway pros look anything but messy, even though European designers “almost like an awkward walk,” Perrett says - “that blase look, like you don’t care, you don’t want to be there, you want to get in and out, don’t smile, walk straight, make a left.” Male runway models of late tend to fit into two categories: hot and buff or pale and sinewy, depending on the show. “There was controversy this season because it was actors taking models’ jobs,” says Pernett, who thought the final show, with appearances by Adrien Brody and Emile Hirsch, “just looked really messy.” Apparently the Prada casting is already so cutthroat that models don’t know if they get to walk the show until moments before it actually happens. “Why is that? Because they’re teenagers.” And crafting the right runway persona may have been more important for the male runway models this season than ever before, as a slew of slots in the coveted Prada show went to actors, not models. “A lot of the guys have really bad posture as it is,” explains casting director Douglas Perrett from COACD. Male models, like all the ones we saw at Milan and Paris Men’s Fashion Weeks that wrapped over the weekend, often receive runway training from their agents, casting directors, and show producers. The best in the business combine posture, attitude, and putting one leg in front of the other to create a moment that either really makes you want to be them or want to have sex with them. The oft-ignored male runway-model walk is no different: They don’t just show up and walk like they normally would on the street - there is work, training, craft involved. (In part because no shortage of airtime on reality television has been devoted to just finding a model show that will stick when it’s thrown on TV in the first place.) And so a lady’s catwalk has morphed into an enigma of the right posture, attitude, and hip sashay that come naturally to some blessed few and easily manifest in mass awkwardness for the rest, while those of us watching these girls walk back and forth often wonder who falls into which category. ![]() A criminal record is not something to be glamorized-but a reformed ex-con who happens to be criminally good-looking? That's one way to shake up a model casting moment.No shortage of airtime on reality television has been devoted to the female-model runway walk. The 33-year-old Stockton, California, native seems to have turned his life around since being released from prison: He now appears to be a loving husband and father to his wife and two sons. Meeks may have a checkered past (he served time for grand theft in 2002, and was found guilty for possession of a firearm), but he’s not the first person with a rap sheet to take the spotlight in the fashion world: Winona Ryder and Naomi Campbell have had their run-ins with the law, and both bounced back. His New York Fashion Week moment comes a day after he posted a photo to Instagram of himself posing shirtless with show stylist Carine Roitfeld. For his widely captured appearance, Meeks wore a long lacquered black puffer jacket with a fur-trimmed hood, black track jacket, and moto-inspired pants. His glinting crystal blue eyes, Greek god–like chiseled jaw, and lone teardrop tattoo eventually earned him a modeling contract, and tonight the buff bad boy finally made his debut on the runway, thanks to the larger-than-life fashion brand Philipp Plein. Remember Jeremy Meeks aka “Hot Felon?” The same man whose editorial-worthy mugshot made viral rounds on the Internet? Well, call it a “mugshot to headshot” moment instead.
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