DON'T compare
David Gandy to Zoolander - not if you want to stay on his good side.
"People still just think
Zoolander, and to come out with your pride and dignity intact is probably quite hard in this business," he says of the industry's attitude to male models. But it seems the tide may be turning. "Now there are younger guys coming in who want to be models. I'm actually proud to say I'm a model now. You pay your dues of not being listened to, but now people are starting to say, 'Maybe this guy's onto something.'"
Gandy may have raised the profile of male models in the past year - having been the first man to be nominated for the
British Fashion Awards Model of the Year - but he reveals it's still not easy being a man in a woman's world.
"Trust me to end up working in the only industry in the world where women get paid more than men, and treated loads better," he told the
Sunday Times Style. "We're trying to change that. In the hierarchy of a shoot, you have the photographer, the female model, the stylists, the assistants, then the male model. You are the lowest of the low."