Jean-Luc’s Casting Call Diaries | Paris Fashion Week Day 1

paris fashion week is nearly here and all the models have gathered in town for castings before heading to milan fashion week and coming back to paris on time for the shows …
since a couple of days already i kept seeing models everywhere in the metro and the streets until this morning when i suddenly had the idea to play some kind of paparazzo and follow the guys going from castings to castings to make some sort of photo report, an exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ story at the men’s paris fashion week castings for the fashionisto ! i immediately phoned some friends at one of the paris model agencies and got the list of castings for the day; by that time i had unfortunately already missed the opportunity to spot the guys at yves saint laurent and louis vuitton, but
mugler, lanvin and cerruti were still possible targets for my 1st day of model ‘hunting’ …
after a couple of hours walking between the different casting places, waiting for my preys to show up, the result was quite satisfying with some of the biggest names from the international runways and magazines such as jacob coupe, arthur daniyarov, alexander johansson, marcel castenmiller, harry wakefield, paul boche, mat gordon, linus gustin, james smith, benoni loos, ty akintayo, jakob hybholt, johannes linder etc, along with new faces laszlo ricciardi, sascha weissenborn, corentin renault, ollie greb or seb amongst others …