{"id":53396,"date":"2016-10-27T05:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T09:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/?p=53396"},"modified":"2016-10-27T05:58:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T09:58:55","slug":"alistair-waterfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/modeloftheweek\/53396","title":{"rendered":"Alistair Waterfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alistair was shot exclusively for MODELS.com by Nick Scaife, with styling by Roberta Pinna, and grooming by Ernesto Montenovo at David Artists. Interview by Jonathan Shia. Special thanks to James Coyne.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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interview<\/h2>\n

Name:<\/strong>
\nAlistair Waterfield<\/a><\/p>\n

Agency:<\/strong>
\nElite London (London)<\/a><\/p>\n

Age:<\/strong>
\n20<\/p>\n

Height:<\/strong>
\n6’1.5″<\/p>\n

Instagram:<\/strong>
\n@alistairwaterfield<\/a><\/p>\n

Place of Origin:<\/strong>
\nNorthamptonshire, England<\/p>\n

Ethnic Origin:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m completely British: English and quite a bit of Scottish in there as well.<\/p>\n

Birthsign:<\/strong>
\nScorpio<\/p>\n

How discovered:<\/strong>
\nI was at the Latitude music festival in Suffolk last summer. I didn\u2019t take them very seriously because it seemed really unlikely that someone would pick me out. I was with my friend and he was laughing, so I played along and said, \u201cOh yeah yeah yeah, thanks,\u201d and he gave me his card and that was kind of it. I thought it seemed a bit strange and then about an hour later I got scouted again by someone else and I thought, \u201cActually maybe there\u2019s something in this then.\u201d If it had just been one, I probably wouldn\u2019t have pursued it because it could\u2019ve been a con or something.<\/p>\n

What were you doing before you started modeling?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d just finished school and, like everyone my age, there are crossroads where they\u2019re not really sure what they want to do with their lives. I\u2019d decided that I was going to do an art foundation course because at that point I was looking at maybe doing architecture. I\u2019d also found that in my last year at school I enjoyed doing my art so much ahead of the other subjects that I was considering doing an art degree, so I wanted to take the one year of foundation to make my mind up. I did my art foundation and it\u2019s helped me decide that I want to do fine art now. This last year, I\u2019ve been doing my art foundation locally in Northampton and it\u2019s gone well \u2014 I got a distinction \u2014 and now I\u2019m going to Central Saint Martins, so I\u2019m quite excited about that.<\/p>\n

What kind of art do you do?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve been painting mostly so far. When you do art at school, it\u2019s quite limited \u2014 you can paint or sometimes do other things, but it\u2019s a bit restricted \u2014 so I have been trying other things, but painting is still probably my strong suit. I used to paint portraits and I found that really interesting, but for the sake of this year I\u2019ve been trying to free myself up a bit, so I\u2019ve been looking at far more abstract concepts. I\u2019ve been looking at process painting like Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter, Yves Klein, and people like this. For my final project, I\u2019ve also been looking at moving into a more personal approach, so I was looking at artists like Oscar Murillo, who I think was a big influence for me.<\/p>\n

How did you get started in painting?<\/strong>
\nMy granddad is a painter and I used to visit him a lot when I was younger, and he\u2019d always show me his paintings in his studio. He was very keen for me to get into art \u2014 same with my sister \u2014 because my mother did an art foundation as well, so there\u2019s definitely something running in the family there.<\/p>\n

Favorite things:<\/strong>
\nFunnily enough, I am quite into sports, even though the art student doesn\u2019t normally have any interest in them. I\u2019m not very good at sports, but I enjoy them. I used to play cricket and rugby, which seems strange again, but I watch quite a bit of sport on TV with my dad. Mainly I\u2019m a Bristol City fan. I\u2019m also really into music and film. I\u2019m normally walking around with my headphones on, that\u2019s kind of my way of relaxing and getting into the mood for something. I feel like sometimes I\u2019m a bit of a solitary person, so it allows me to escape into my own little world. I really enjoy film as well. I haven\u2019t been able to watch many recently, so I\u2019m a bit annoyed about that, because normally my summers are a film a day and then something else. I used to stay up late and watch the art house film on Film4 that started at about three in the morning. That was kind of my summer thing, but I just love films of all kinds really.<\/p>\n

What are you listening to at the moment?<\/strong>
\nWell I listen to a really eclectic mix. I listen to a bit of rap music and some EDM. LCD Soundsystem are one of my all-time favorites. I just really enjoy listening to them all the time, no matter what mood I\u2019m in. I grew up with my dad getting me to listen to some of his old collection, so I\u2019m a big Smiths fan, and David Bowie as well. I was really upset about his passing.<\/p>\n

Favorite movie:<\/strong>
\nPossibly something by Wes Anderson. I love his directing. I\u2019d say maybe Moonrise Kingdom or The Life Aquatic. I just love those films because it\u2019s more about the aesthetic than anything else. I\u2019ve almost finished his collection and there\u2019s one film I still have to see, Bottle Rocket, his first, and I kind of don\u2019t want to watch it because I know then it\u2019s all over, that\u2019s the end of it. So I\u2019m hoping he brings out another one soon.<\/p>\n

Favorite designer, fragrance or beauty product:<\/strong>
\nI like lots of different things I\u2019ve looked at. I didn\u2019t really know much about fashion this time last year so I\u2019ve got a very new idea of everything. My style has always been quite minimal and very plain, but I quite enjoy at the moment the way a lot of brands are decorating and putting little things into their work. Gucci have done that quite a lot and I think that\u2019s quite cool. It\u2019s gone back to what a lot of people would\u2019ve said was \u201cgarish,\u201d but I really like that. I quite like a lot of the Alexander McQueen-style things.<\/p>\n

What would you be doing if you weren’t modeling?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d probably be looking for a job to find a way to pay for rent my first term in London.<\/p>\n

What’s something uncool that you love anyway?<\/strong>
\nThere are lots of things that are uncool about me. For some reason, I really get into watching cooking shows. I don\u2019t know why. I think it\u2019s because when I was ill from school I would sit and just watch the Food Network all day long. It would be Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson and the Two Fat Ladies and now I really get into that. I watch so many cooking shows, which is definitely uncool.<\/p>\n

First modeling experience?<\/strong>
\nThe very first thing I did was the Elite Model Look competition. Three days after I got scouted, I was asked if I could come down to London. I didn\u2019t really know what was happening and it was actually the semifinal. It was the equivalent of, I suppose, a casting. There were like 30 other guys and they took some pictures of us and we walked up and down in front of a panel of people and they took our measurements and then they lined us up and I was announced as one of the five boys that had gotten into the final. The final was the next day and that\u2019s when all the modeling stuff started happening. They did a photo shoot with us, so it was my first ever photo shoot, and then they did catwalk training and the finale was a runway show in the Superdry flagship store on Regent Street in front of about 300 people. From not having any idea pretty much the morning before to doing that on my first-ever day was pretty intense, but it was an amazing experience. After that, I did a series of test shoots and then my first job was I was told that I\u2019d been requested to meet someone called Elliott Smedley. I didn\u2019t really know anyone in the industry so I went to his office and just met him and then afterwards I did a Google search and saw he was a stylist and worked closely with the team at Burberry and that\u2019s when I realized that it was a casting for that. Then I received word that he liked me and he wanted to work with me more and I ended up meeting Christopher Bailey and I\u2019ve worked with Burberry quite a lot since then, so that was kind of my initiation.<\/p>\n

Did you know what a big deal the Burberry show exclusive was?<\/strong>
\nI opened and closed Burberry as an exclusive in January. I didn\u2019t really know that I was opening and closing the show until the day of the show because I\u2019d never done anything like that before, so even though my look said look number one, I didn\u2019t know that meant that I was the first look. I thought they would organize it later on. When I found out about that, I realized this was a massive thing and it was really exciting and pretty nerve-wracking as well, but just one of the most amazing experiences.<\/p>\n

Favorite modeling experience so far?<\/strong>
\nPossibly that, that was just incredible for someone who\u2019d never done anything like that before to then be walking in front of I\u2019m not sure how many people. That was a big thing, but I\u2019ve had some other good experiences too. I think I\u2019m really lucky in that way, because that was my first experience of runway and my first experience of editorial was for Louis Vuitton, which was shot in Cambodia for Another Man magazine. That was an amazing experience as well, because it was the first time I\u2019d been taken far away to this new place that I\u2019d never visited before for my work, which I just thought was amazing. I got to see things that I most likely would never have seen otherwise in my life and without having to pay anything as well. I\u2019ve always had the travel bug and it\u2019s so difficult for young people to travel because of the costs involved, so to have this opportunity is just so lucky.<\/p>\n

Which brand would you really love to model for?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m not sure in terms of who I\u2019d most like to model for now. I\u2019m hoping that Burberry still like me and that I keep on working with them because I really like the team that I get to work with there, but a brand that I haven\u2019t worked for before that I\u2019d like to work with is Alexander McQueen because I just really like their stuff. I guess I\u2019ve not done anything for some of the commercial companies that are less high fashion, so maybe something like that would be quite cool, but I\u2019m not sure which one really.<\/p>\n

Place you would love to visit:<\/strong>
\nI have so many on my list. To name a few, I really want to go to India and Iceland. Iceland\u2019s quite near, relatively, so I\u2019m hoping to be able to do that quite soon, and then some really faraway, exotic places as well. I\u2019ve never been to South America, so that\u2019s another one on my list, and also the West Coast of America. I\u2019ve only ever been to New York once when I was 15, so it\u2019d be nice to look further into the US.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best thing about your hometown?<\/strong>
\nI come from a village and it\u2019s kind of like the land that time forgot. I suppose that\u2019s the best thing, because it\u2019s so intense running around all the time for fashion week or doing shoots and things like this, and then you get back to Little Addington and everything\u2019s so quiet and sleepy. It\u2019s quite a pretty little home county. It\u2019s just really nice.<\/p>\n

What are you currently obsessed with?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a difficult one. \u201cObsessed\u201d is quite a strong term to use. I guess I\u2019m kind of obsessed with shoes. My dad is the managing director of George Cox footwear, which is our family business, so I\u2019m always looking at footwear. I\u2019ve found myself taking pictures of shoes everywhere I go and especially for fashion week, because everyone walks around wearing really nice clothing, so I\u2019m walking around taking pictures of people\u2019s shoes and trying to expand my collection. I go up to people and say, \u201cWhere are your shoes from?\u201d and they kind of give me a strange look, but I guess I\u2019m obsessed with shoes at the moment.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best piece of advice you\u2019ve ever been given?<\/strong>
\nDon\u2019t take yourself too seriously, because it\u2019s very easy to get yourself down and worry about everything, but something comes along. There\u2019s no guarantee of when it will happen, but there always seems to be something that you can salvage out of any situation, so getting stressed and worrying about it isn\u2019t really worthwhile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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