Simon Julius Jørgensen, 21, Odense, Denmark
After being scouted at a music festival last summer, Jørgensen
made it through the Elite Model Look competition before booking an exclusive with Burberry this past January. “I went to the casting back in December and when I got home the day after, my agent wrote me and was like, ‘You got a Burberry exclusive!’” he recalls. “I was like, ‘Neat! What does that mean?’” By the time the show came around a few weeks later, he had realized exactly what it meant, but still managed to keep a level head. “I was a little nervous, but it actually wasn’t too bad because it was over so fast,” he says. “The last ten minutes up until the show were intense, but then afterwards it was like all the air just went out and everything was calm.” Now taking a break from his physiotherapy studies, Jørgensen walked for Prada, Gucci, Valentino, Fendi, Raf Simons, Dior Homme, and Louis Vuitton this year, and somehow also managed to train for his first marathon, which he ran in April. “It went ok, considering I was meant to be training in January, but that was fashion week, so that didn’t happen,” he says. “I do a lot of walking, but walking is not going to get you through a marathon.”
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