Dear readers of sport&beauty. As it’s been a long time since we haven’t written an article about the best male models, today we’re going to retake the topic and dedicate a post to one of them. Let me give you some hints before unveiling his identity so you can make your educated guesses. He’s French and has become the muse of Karl Lagerfed who’s turned today’s guest into Chanel’s new rising star. Besides, he’s considered in the USA as the handsomest man after French actor Alain Delon. You’re right. Today’s post is dedicated to French model Baptiste Giabiconi, Karl Lagerfeld’s muse. Here you are Baptiste Giabiconi, the new Karl Lagerfeld’s fashion enfant terrible.
In spite of the fact that Baptiste Giabiconi is currently considered as one of the world’s top male models, he didn’t mean to pursue a modeling career. Baptiste was born in Marseille on November 8, 1989. The son of Corsican parents of humble origin, Baptiste led a quiet life after finishing High School sharing his time between his job as a mechanic in an aeronautical factory and his body building sessions in the gym. It was precisely there that something happened that would change his life. In 2007, and while working out in the gym, Baptiste Giabiconi was approched by an unknown woman (perhaps a talent scout) who advised Giabiconi to have some pictures taken and sent him to a photographer in Marseille. The photographer prepared a photobook for him and, together with his book, Baptiste started to tour several modeling agencies in Paris. In the begining, and despite his charisma, Baptiste went through difficult times since it wasn’t easy to make a name for himself in the fashion world. Things were going badly for the French model until some of his pictures published by a Milan’s magazine attracted Karl Largefeld’s attention in June 2008. After that, and all of a sudden, Baptiste replaced Brad Koenig as Chanel’s face and started a promising career in the fashion world.
It’s not strange that Lagerfeld went totally crazy in front of the sight of this brown haired, brown-eyed and 188-centimeter tall hunk. It was in 2008 and it marked the lauch of Baptiste’s career. Giabiconi became Lagerfeld’s muse and started to walk for each and every of Chanel’s fashion shows. Lagerfeld started taking pictures of Baptiste for magazines such as Colette, Elle, Purple, and V Man and there was no single event that Karl wasn’t accompanied by this brown-haired hunk. If you don’t believe me, take a close look to the following pictures. Be careful because Baptiste has ensured he’s straight and the German designer has ensured that, for him, Giabiconi is a kind of foster son or heir to whom Karl wants to entrust all his experience and expertise. If you have a look to the right of the first picture you’ll notice that Baptiste slightly resembles Real Madrid's soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo.
Although Baptiste’s career has just taken off there are some milestones that can be pointed out. In 2007 the French model posed for Tetu, in 2008 for Numéro Homme, Frankie Morello, and Polaroid and in 2009 he appeared on the covers of Wallpaper and Wound Magazine and posed for Vogue Paris, Vogue Nippon, Vogue Germany, V Man, Interview, Wallpaper Magazine, Elle Italy, Purple Fashion, V Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire Italy, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, and Just Cavalli. 2009 Summer campaign has been the best one for him so far since he became the face of "Chanel", "K" by Karl Lagerfeld, "Frankie Morello", and "Armani Jeans". In 2010 Baptiste Giabiconi graced the cover of l’Officiel Homme China and posed for Envy, Elle Belgium, Paris, Grazia, and Vogue Germany. Besides, he gave a lot of interviews and appeared in countless TV shows in France from which we can highlight "Habillée pour l’hiver de Mademoiselle Agnès", "Le Grand Journal de Canal+", "Le bureau des plaintes" y "On n’est pas couché". Currently, Baptiste is working for the following modeling agencies : DNA Models New York, Premier Model Management London, MGM Paris, d’management group Milan, Scoop Models Copenhaguen y Mega Model Agency Hamburg.
Out of curiosity we will say that, after having walked and posed for the world’s top fashion brands, Baptiste seems to have discovered his second passion, the music. Baptiste is taking it so seriously that he’s recording an album in cooperation with Side Hajjaji and the first single "Showtime" composed by Thom Carslym and Mats Rossander and directed by Kore (Florida, Pittbull, Shaggy...)will be released in March 2011. To conclude today's post, I'll leave you a slideshow with some Giabiconi's pictures and a couple of videos so you can see him alive and kicking. Best regards.
