Beyond Zoolander
Local good guy makes it big as America's next top model.
BY BYRON BECK | bbeck at wweek dot com
[September 27th, 2006] Chad White wants to be a baseball player. Or a fireman. But those dreams have to wait. At the ripe age of 22, this Wilson High School grad—class of '02—has another career path to follow: modeling. That's right. White is the high fashion world's "model of the moment."
And as for moments, White just had a big one when he walked the wild and wacky Heatherette runway with Paris Hilton; one of the most talked-about moments during all of New York's recent Fashion Week. Another moment occurred when Steven Klein devoted 45 pages of editorial to him for the Italian magazine L'Uomo Vogue (the last time they did that was for Brad Pitt). And, when I talked to him from the beaches of Malibu last week, he was just a few moments into doing the next big Diesel campaign.