Brad Alphonso

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Brad Alphonso

hair : black

eyes : brown

height : 188cm/6'2"

waist : 76cm/30"

suit : 96cm/48

shoes : 44/9.5

Agency Portfolio

From military to modeling

"I was always more of a football player/military guy. The whole fashion thing still kinds of freaks me out sometimes, " said Brad Alphonso, who was lounging at his parents' home in Denham Springs last month after returning from London, where he posed in an ad campaign for Versace's new line for H&M. (Donatella Versace was on set, watching him work. "She's as tan in person as she in pictures, " he said.)

After graduating from Chalmette High, Alphonso joined the National Guard to help pay for his studies at Louisiana State University. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. Called up to active Air Force duty, he found himself patrolling New Orleans in the dreary aftermath of the levee failures.

"A scout saw me driving a Humvee through Lakeview, and he gave me his card, " Alphonso said, "but I didn't pursue it."

Later, as he was getting out of the military, though, the opportunity seemed like a good one. The scout, with John Robert Powers agency, sent Alphonso to Las Vegas, where he won a modeling competition with 6,000 contestants.

Now signed in the United States with Wilhelmina and other agencies in Europe, work comes fast and furious, from editorial layouts for GQ, Details and Esquire to shows for Calvin Klein, Dolce Gabbana and John Paul Gaultier.

One of Alphonso's first gigs was a photo shoot for Glamour magazine with Katy Perry. "They had five guys they brought in for the shoot, " he said, "and they wanted one of us to do a single shot with her, and they picked me.

"Katy Perry was cool, " he said. "She's not a flirt, but she's definitely a confident woman."

For the past year and a half, Alphonso has been living in Paris and traveling frequently. "Before I started modeling, I hadn't been anywhere but Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, " he said. "Now, I haven't been home in months. You may have a few weeks where you work every single day, live out of a suitcase. But when I do an Armani casting, I'm actually meeting Giorgio Armani.

"It can be intense. You get put into a room with all these people, and all eyes are on you all the time. Some people have panic attacks."

Military training and college experience helps, he said. "You have to be really self-confident. There are lots of guys who look like me, but it's not just looks. It's how you get along with people and how you handle yourself." Eventually, he said, he hopes the modeling will segue into an acting career.

At 6-foot-2, Alphonso is rugged, with lean muscles and a boyish grin. He was about 205 pounds when he was in the military, but has now he's slimmed down to a svelte 170.

"Living in New Orleans, you don't worry about your diet too much. But when I started eating healthy, the weight started falling off.

"I don't lift heavy weights anymore, " he said. "I run, and I'm conscious about my diet all the time.

"But when I'm home, I always at least get myself a Domilise's shrimp poboy. I try to give myself a little sanity again."

Note : I've been a silent reader of BZ, till i looked out for this guy and apparently he didnt has his thread here..so this is my first post about this promising male model, Brad Alphonso..He's been featured in Glamour magz along with Katy Perry, he also posed for D&G campaign and recently got featured in Madonna's latest music video, Girl Gone Wild with other fellows models such as Sean O, Simon Nessman, and Jon Kartajarena (whom he shared an apple with )

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I feel it like Tom Cruise

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ALPHONSO WITH JODIE SMITH

OPIQUE ~ LET'S PLAY

BY STEVEN GOMILLION & DENNIS LEUPOLD

http://opique.com

[MauiKane]

BRAD 

BY BRENT CHUA

 

 

 

 

 

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