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Yahoo!'s Models of the Month
Alex Lundqvist, Jason Lewis and Mark Vanderloo

Brought to you by GUESS? Interactive.

Alex Lundqvist is a self-assured Swede, utterly charming, educated and thoughtful. He's also one of the number one male models, featured in GUESS? advertising campaigns.

Alex had one of those Swedish liberal idyllic childhoods which came abruptly to an end at the eighteen with the obligatory one-year national service in Sweden's army. Transformed into a tank platoon commander, the quiet blue-eyed boy had to shave his head so often that he swore that when he came out, he'd never shave again and from that was born the mischievous arrangement of facial hair that would become his insignia.


Since then Alex is constantly featured in editorial, for Vogue Homme and L'Uomo Vogue and a spread in Arena Magazine, photographed by Aldo Rossi, among others. Alex has also been profiled in Elle Top Model, New York Magazine, US Magazine and an interview on MTV's "House of Style," along with best buddy and fellow model Mark Vanderloo.

Jason Lewis -- at 24, is a star of many great campaigns including Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, GUESS? and Byblos. Jason has done every major show in Paris, Milan and New York. He is the GUESS? man everyone remembers drooling over late '93 - early '94.

Jason tells you he's from Southern California and that's about it. He just knew he wanted to travel and so as a teenager he hauled pipes and dug ditches for a plumbing contractor and then worked fifty-five hours a week in a restaurant to get the money together to get out and see the world. In 1993, he landed in Paris, at the suggestion of a model scout. Into the three months of his visa he signed with a model agency, and crammed in a good year of high living and European lifestyle. He then went to Milan and found himself being madly courted by the fashion industry.


Mark (in front) and Jason (in back)


Jason Lewis is now with Wilhelmina Models Inc. and lives in New York on an incredible schedule. He's able to study with three private acting coaches for what he hopes will be a future in film. This magnetic, enigmatic man is one of the biggest modeling stars in the world today. There is every expectation that he will have similar impact of the film world.

Mark Vanderloo, born in Waddinzveen, Holland, is now the number one male model in the world. At thirteen he was the hardest-working paperboy in town, running three routes, later on he worked in bars and cafes, and everything he made, he'd spend. At 22, he entered the University of Amsterdam to study history. Accompanying a model girlfriend one day to a shoot, he found himself modeling for the very first time. The photographer had another assignment he needed to complete, for a milk advertisement and liking the look of the two of them together, he shot them for the ad. Mark just hated the way he looked in the pictures and thought that was the end of a very short modeling career. But a local agency liked the pictures and came after him offering him money; after six penniless months at college, he found it an offer impossible to resist.


Mark tells you he has the greatest job in the world -- not only for its material benefits but for putting him to work with some of the most amazingly creative minds in the world. So he gives everything of himself to his work, even of his very soul, so that he says when he looks at one of his pictures, he can always tell what he was feeling when it was taken.



Mark

Alex

Jason

Past Models of the Month:
Drew Barrymore , Laetitia Casta, Anna Nicole Smith, Eva Herzigova,
Victoria Silvstedt, and Claudia Schiffer

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