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| _Walking Tall with Nick Bryant |
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| _ModelWatch launches the profile of VNY Models’ most accomplished male _model and one of today’s most sought-after, Nick Bryant! |
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| _By Jed Medina,
December 2004 |
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 We had an idyllic life growing up in New Zealand as there were always things to do outside, like swimming or surfing or just messing around building tree-huts. |
Fashion is once again ready to embrace another star in the making! With an established record as one of New Zealand and Australia’s most in-demand models, Nick Bryant has already began his rise into the male modeling ladder right at the heart of the fashion capital of the world, New York city!
Represented and ably nurtured by one of the Big Apple’s most hardworking and dedicated agency director, Lana Winters, Nick is destined for the stars! After a noteworthy gig for Ralph Lauren where he joins some of today’s male model elite, Nick is now the face of John Varvatos and is enjoying an unprecedented rise to the top. With a respectable place as one of models.com’s top50 male models, Nick is more than a face to watch but is already the face of the future…
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Jed: Tell the viewers of ModelWatch, the first time you did modeling- what was it like? How did you feel?
Nick: My first modeling job was back in my hometown of Auckland, in New Zealand. It was a pretty low key affair for a teenage girls magazine called ‘Girlfriend’ where I had to pretend to ask a girl to the prom, Corsage and everything, while we were on a beach. I was nervous, which I suppose is understandable for a 16 year old, but definitely enjoyed the experience. Especially considering that I had just earned some money for jumping around on a beach with a girl, while my mates had to deliver papers or mow lawns or do whatever they could to earn any pocket money.
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"...they’re not the type of people to value the superficiality of the fashion industry, so they definitely help to provide a balance and keep me grounded." Nick on his Family. |
Jed: Did you get the chance to enjoy your first ‘big’ paycheck?
Nick: My fist substantial paycheck came when I was struggling through University in London, up to my eyeballs in student debt and barely scraping together enough to eat, as is the case with many students. So, that particular job really couldn’t have come at a better time for me and it certainly helped me to graduate a couple of years later.
Jed: How were you discovered?
Nick: An agency in Auckland had a scouting competition and I wandered in one day to check out the girls and I inadvertently won it!
Jed: Was modeling a career prospect for you? From the onset, is becoming a male model something you have given some thought?
Nick: Well, I had been approached a few times when I was younger, so I had given thought to it before and it wasn’t a completely foreign idea to me once I was scouted at 16.
Also, I was looking for a part-time job to make some pocket money when I was still at school. Since I could model part-time and not give up anything like school or my future prospects, it was a fairly easy decision to make.
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Jed: What are the reactions of your family about modeling? Is this a factor that somehow influenced you over your professional choice?
Nick: My family were very supportive of my choice as they could see that for me it wasn’t an end in itself but a means to gaining other things that I valued more – like education, travel and experience. They were frankly a bit bewildered by the industry at first I think, but came to appreciate it once it began to help pay for my schooling and so forth.
So, now that I’ve graduated, they’re very happy to see me take a couple of years off and do some modeling, make some cash and travel. That said, they’re not the type of people to value the superficiality of the fashion industry, so they definitely help to provide a balance and keep me grounded.
Jed: A number of male models we have interviewed provided us with preferences- be it on the runways or doing fashion shoot locations, in your view, which is more exciting and which of these two types of modeling do you prefer?
Nick: I actually prefer shoots more than shows at the moment. On a long shoot away from the city you can really get the chance to get to know the client and can form a proper relationship with them. While the actual performance of a show is relatively easy, and definitely social, the casting/call-back/fitting schedule can be draining, especially in Milan.
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