Mitchell Slaggert

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Calvin Klein S/S 2016 Milan (exclusive)

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From Military Hopeful to Male Model: Mitchell Slaggert’s Wild Ride

By Janelle Okwodu

Though he made a big impression this season as a Calvin Klein exclusive, Mitchell Slaggert never considered fashion as a viable career path. “I come from a military family, so I never thought I would do this,” the Georgia native tells Style.com. “It’s still a little weird to think of myself as a model.” Originally intending to follow in the footsteps of his Marine Corps vet mother, Slaggert was prevented by a medical issue from enlisting. Instead, he focused on studying mechanical engineering, until chance brought him face-to-face with casting director Daniel Peddle. Peddle—who discovered another Southern star by the name of Jennifer Lawrence—approached Slaggert as he was heading home from class. “I was raised to believe that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is, so when he came up to me, I said, ‘No, thanks,’” Slaggert admitted. “It wasn’t until I looked him up on the Internet and realized he was legit that I gave him a call back.”

The fateful call led to Slaggert being signed to DNA Models in New York. Quickly after, he was tapped for Calvin Klein’s Spring 2016 menswear show. At 6'2" with an athletic build and easygoing nature, Slaggert epitomizes that clean-cut Calvin look. The trip to Milan for the brand’s Spring 2016 show provided Slaggert with a series of firsts: his first trip to Europe, his first runway show, and his first time seeing the intricacies of fashion’s backstage scene. “There are a lot of interesting characters in this industry, I think that has been the most overwhelming and surprising part of working in fashion,” he offered. “But it’s great to see people who really express themselves!”

With one big-time show under his belt, Slaggert’s catwalk future looks bright. And even though he dedicates his free time to finishing up his degree, he still manages to find time to immerse himself in the perks of his new career. “Since I started, I’ve had to get a whole new wardrobe—can’t show up to castings in my Browning shirts!”

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Kind of look like Dmitriy Tanner, wow. Keeping my eyes out for him.

 

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Anzevino Getty S/S 2016 New York



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Tommy Hilfiger S/S 2016 New York



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Parke & Ronen S/S 2016 New York



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Craft Atlantic S/S 2016 New York



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Cadet S/S 2016 New York Women's



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GQ Style Germany F/W 2015.16
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Photographer: Bruno Staub.
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Cadet S/S 2016 New York (Women's), backstage. Photographer: Brent Chua.

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CK S/S 2016 New York



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calvin klein press presentation fall 2015

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cadet spring/summer 2016, lookbook

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grooming MARI MATSUMOTO

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Dsquared² S/S 2016 Campaign.

 

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Calvin Klein Underwear ss 2016

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Mitchell Slaggert: A Country Boy Becomes the Face of Calvin Klein Underwear
On his first trip to New York, the newbie model recalls meeting Kendall Jenner and getting scouted by Jennifer Lawrence's agent.
February 9, 2016 12:56 PM | by Emilia Petrarca
When model Mitchell Slaggert showed up on set in England last month to shoot the latest Calvin Klein underwear campaign, he met a young model who seemed familiar. “She was a name I knew, but not a face,” he said. The young model was Kendall Jenner. When asked to explain how he didn’t recognize one of the most famous women in the world, Slaggert bashfully stammered, “Well, I don’t watch her show.”
Slaggert can be excused for this and other lapses in his knowledge of celebrity culture, like not knowing the meaning of “Versace” (he’d only heard the name in a song by Migos) or GQ, a magazine he didn’t know existed until he appeared in its pages. The 21-year-old is fresh off the boat from little-town Fayetteville, Georgia, and he’s about to hit the big time. In short order, the strapping young hunk went from interviewing for a job at the Department of Homeland Security to posing with Jenner to be the face of Calvin Klein Underwear.
“The good Lord has a plan. It just wasn’t meant for me,” he said on a recent afternoon. “And now I’m in New York hanging out in the World Trade Center!”
The model was in Lower Manhattan for a shoot and was basking in his newfound notoriety. The day before he had been the hit of Calvin Klein’s presentation during during New York Fashion Week: Men’s. Shirtless in nothing but tight gold metallic pants, he had gamely posed in the tableaux designer Italo Zuccheli conceived for the occasion as editors and other fashion groupies strained to take his picture.
“I get a lot of DM’s on Instagram. Some of these girls…” he said, incredulous. “They’re crazy.”
Growing up in Georgia, Slaggert wanted to join the U.S. Marines. But a car accident when he was seven left him with one kidney and he couldn’t enlist. He was this close to joining Homeland Security – its job interview was much more stressful than any modeling casting call, he said – when he was spotted walking around downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was studying mechanical engineering at the University of North Carolina.
“I was leaving class and this guy chased me down and tapped me on the shoulder,” Slaggert recalled. The guy happened to be the man who discovered Jennifer Lawrence. “He asked me if I wanted to model and it sounded too good to be true. Usually it is, but I got lucky.”
The trip to New York for the Calvin presentation was the first to city and he felt overwhelmed by the sights and the crowds. The cold weather also forced him to buy a hat and scarf, but his girlfriend does the rest of his shopping. On his visit downtown, he wore Doc Martens she bought him, slim-cut jeans, and a Calvin Klein v-neck, plus a leather bomber jacket his dad bought him from Amazon Prime. Left to his own devices, though, Slaggert would be dressed in a duck hunting cap, boots, and his beloved “grandpa jeans” from Levi’s.
To fit into Calvin Klein’s tight pants, he had to lose ten pounds. “I can’t just lift weights, otherwise I’ll bulk up,” he said of his new fitness routine. “You need to be slim to fit in these clothes.”
As Slaggert walked out of the World Trade Center in his tight jeans, he stopped to look at some Steven Klein portraits of Kate Moss flanking the walls. “Do you know who this is?” I asked. Slaggert scratched his head.
“Nope.”

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