Man Watch

Meanwhile,life for South African fashion photographer Chris Ladewig,22,took a surprising turn after he accompanied his brother to a model agency. “I never planned to become a model. I just went with my younger brother Brandon to give him moral support when the organisers told me to give it a shot as well,” smiled Ladewig,on his first trip to India. So far,he has walked the ramp for Shantanu and Nikhil ,Nitin Bal Chauhan and Manoviraj Khosla. However,life as a male model hasn’t been so breezy. “Things aren’t really as smooth backstage as in other shows in Hong Kong,” said Ladewig,who will be walking the ramp at Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai next. Ladewig has shot campaigns for S Oliver and the Harrods store in London.

Another gentleman who took a shy turn on the ramp for designer Nitin Bal Chauhan is Auztynn Shimray,a 22-year-old bartender who also runs a rock band in Delhi. “I have always been interested in fashion and when Nitin approached me with the idea of regular guys walking the ramp I jumped at it,” said Shimray. At Chauhan’s show,out of the 27 male models,only three were professional models. A stylist,a copywriter,a graphic artist,a creative head of an agency and a musician from a rock band,Prestorika were some of the other men who walked the ramp.