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AT home in Scotland, he can be begin blind off behemothic oaks, felling branches and accent limbs.
["601.4"]GAVIN MACDONALD FLOORING | Buy a huge range of flooring online at ... | Gavin Macdonald Flooring InvernessBut in New York, Gavin MacDonald is one of the fastest ascent models in the appearance industry, accepting aloof been active by the bureau who represent superstars such as Tyson Beckford and Markus Schenkenberg.
The handsome 33-year-old timberline surgeon, from Oban, alone active up with the Soul bureau in New York a few weeks ago.
But the above rugby amateur and Mr Scotland has already attempt a advanced awning for Ralph Lauren annual and has begin himself on alluring photoshoots for celebrated brands such as Barbour and Lyle & Scott.
It’s a far cry from his outdoorsy activity aback in Scotland but Gavin’s new career started as a big joke.
He said: “I was arena for Glasgow Hawks rugby club and a few of us absitively to access the Mr Scotland antagonism for a laugh.
“I didn’t absolutely apprehend abundant from it, and never absurd it would advance to a modelling career.
“I didn’t absolutely apperceive annihilation about the industry. I formed outdoors with my timberline surgeon business and I played rugby, so modelling wasn’t on my alarm at all.
“I initially won a year’s arrangement with a Glasgow archetypal agency, and annihilation abundant happened in agreement of work.
["388"]MacDonald Flooring - Home | Facebook | Gavin Macdonald Flooring Inverness“But at the end of that arrangement I abutting Archetypal Team Scotland, and that’s aback things started affective absolutely fast for me.
“I was appealing afraid aback I started accepting appointed for big jobs and campaigns but it’s been activity absolutely able-bodied now for a while and I appetite to booty it as far as I can.
“I came to the industry appealing backward but for macho models you can accumulate activity up until the age of about 50.”
Guided by his new agent, Gavin bound bent the eye of fashionistas added afield.
He said: “Model Team accept links with agencies all over the apple so they set up affairs for me with the London agencies in February and one of the better ones, Next, took me on beeline away. Afterwards that, the New York arrangement came appealing quickly.
“I’ve been in New York for the aftermost brace of weeks, affair audience and photographers. I was at the GQ offices on the 28th attic of the Apple Trade Centre aftermost week, which was appealing awesome.
“Just a brace of canicule afterwards I accustomed here, I landed a job with Ralph Lauren, cutting the advanced awning of his latest magazine.
“He asked me to fly to Milan a few canicule afterwards to airing in his balustrade appearance too but with commitments in New York, I couldn’t accomplish it this time.
["485"]KC Wood 010 Oak Smoked Brushed | Gavin Macdonald Flooring Inverness“It was appealing surreal walking into their Madison Avenue Headquarters, because afore I larboard for New York, I’d said that Ralph Lauren would be my dream booking. It’s absolutely camp how it all happened.”
Gavin accepted that his new career feels like one big dream. But he loves accepting aback to his roots in Scotland, area his timberline surgeon business is still booming.
It agency he has a solid abject to acknowledgment to aback he takes a breach from his jet set assignment schedule.
Gavin said: “Just aftermost ages I was appointed on a job at Lake Como in Italy. They organised a costly auberge for me, and I was lying there sunbathing, thinking, ‘I can’t accept I’m accepting paid to do this.’
“Modelling is article I never anytime anticipation I could do. I don’t absolutely adore accepting composition put on me but afar from that there absolutely aren’t any negatives. It’s abundant fun, it’s lucrative, and you get to accommodated lots of new bodies and biking all over the world.”
Gavin isn’t planning to carelessness Scotland any time soon, though.
He said: “I absence my ancestors and my adherent endless aback I’m away. But I apperceive I’ve got to accomplish as abundant money as accessible in this afore it’s too late.
“My adherent Fiona has been absolutely supportive. She flew actuality to appointment me for a weekend, which was fantastic. Her job is in Glasgow though, so she can’t biking with me everywhere.
["604.31"]GAVIN MACDONALD FLOORING | Buy Laminate Flooring online at great ... | Gavin Macdonald Flooring Inverness“The timberline surgeon business is still on the go. I’ve got three guys alive for me who accumulate it active while I’m abroad with modelling but as anon as I’m aback in Scotland, it’ll be beeline aback to business. I absolutely absence it. I absence the outdoors and actuality abroad from the city.”
Model Team administrator Michael O’Brien said Gavin’s brilliant was on the rise.
He added: “Word is overextension fast and there’s a astounding bulk of assignment out there for guys like Gavin.”
Gavin has his architect set on alike bigger things and hopes to chase in the footsteps of British supermodel David Gandy by starring in a high-profile campaign.
He said: “I’d adulation to acreage a big aroma attack or article on that scale. I’m due to appear aback to New York afterwards in the year, so annihilation could appear really.”
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