Breaking ground in Model Lust, another non-Spaniard makes the list. David Gandy is English, born and raised in Billericay, Essex, England where he was bullied in school for not being very fashionable and having a slight speech impediment.
His friends secretly entered him into a modeling contest for a local morning show while he was working delivering cars to car magazines. No surprise here, he won the contest. What is surprising is that even signed to a modeling agency, the beginning of his career was filled with countless rejections for runway and print ads. It wasn't until he hit it off with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, of Dolce & Gabbana, that his career took off. Dolce & Gabbana initially booked him as the face of their fragrance Light Blue Pour Homme and the rest, as they say, is history.
In 2009, Forbes magazine ranked Gandy as the worlds third most successful male model. He continues most of his work with Dolce & Gabbana and writes a blog for Vogue where he discusses his modeling and extra-curricular activities, such as his love for cars.
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