Modelling blog

Ashton Kutcher kicked off his career in the 90’s as a model, before moving to Los Angeles to audition and be cast as Michael Kelso in hit TV series ‘That 70’s Show’ , the successful comedy series that ran from 1998 to 2006.

Pepe Jeans London have just announced that the tall, dark, handsome, Demi-Moore-other-half is to front their Autumn/Winter advertising campaign.

The movie star and TV producer is said to be looking forward to modelling again, after having had his finger in several pies. He has starred in several comedy films, including Dude, Where’s My Car? Just Married, Guess Who, Cheaper By the Dozen, The Butterfly Effect and most recently opposite Cameron Diaz in What Happens in Vegas… He is also the executive producer or hit reality TV shows Beauty and the Geek, The Real Wedding Crashers, and he is renowned for his antics on his own MTV series Punkd.

A recent survey found that age 30 was the perfect male age - when men reach their peak. Kutcher, aged 30 must therefore be at the perfect age for cougar Demi Moore. A woman’s perfect age is said to be 39 years from the survey, so Jennifer Aniston must be very happy indeed with her new boyfriend, musician John Mayer who is 30 - it can’t get much better!!

The alpha male appears to be back on our catwalks after years on downsizing male models going for thinner, lankier and even androgynous looking boys, real men of porn star proportions that were used in the 1990’s by fashion houses to parade their clothes on the catwalks, are back.

But real men are back (yipee!) with models for Ungaro at Paris fashion week actually having ‘muscles’ and what could really be termed a ‘physique’.

Hedi Sliman, from 1999 to 2006 revolutionised menswear at Dior with narrow suits and slim cigarette pants. He created what soon became an obsession with the boyish, skinny, sometimes sexually-ambigous silhouette.

But now we are seeing a turnaround. At BananasMambo, top Parisian male model agency, manager Patricia Cadiou-Diehl has reported that for the first time in years she was being asked for models aged between 25 and 30, or who at least look 25. They used to receive requests for 17 years olds with androgynous beauty, hyper thin and hyper lanky. But there has been a shift, models are now more often required to be a size 48 suit size which is closer to life than the size 46’s who have recently been seen strutting men’s catwalks.

Alex Wotherspoon may have missed out on the top job offered by Sir Alan Sugar on The Apprentice but the finalist already has chances on a new career: modelling.

The 25-year-old entrepreneur from Bolton, who has done modelling work in the past, last week joined the same modelling agency as Agyness Deyn and Yasmin Le Bon: Models 1 - and is according to some weekend tabloid already up for major campaigns such as Aquascutum and Hackett.

“Alex might turn out to be the real winner of The Apprentice,” a friend told Sunday Mirror. “Companies have been falling over themselves to snap him up. He is weighing his options.”

The youngest ever finalist of the Apprentice, Alex only just missed out on a six-figure job with Sir Alan’s firm Amstrad, which instead went to recruitment sales manager Lee McQueen.