{"id":53494,"date":"2016-11-04T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/?p=53494"},"modified":"2016-11-16T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T21:56:07","slug":"dillon-westbrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/modeloftheweek\/53494","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Westbrock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dillon was shot exclusively for MODELS.com by Hadar Pitchon<\/a>, with styling by Marc Anthony George<\/a>, and grooming by Michael J. Fernandez. Interview by Jonathan Shia<\/a>. Special thanks to Tara Lanoway. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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interview<\/h2>\n

Name:<\/strong>
\nDillon Westbrock<\/a><\/p>\n

Agency:<\/strong>
\nWilhelmina New York (New York)<\/a><\/p>\n

Age:<\/strong>
\n18<\/p>\n

Height:<\/strong>
\n6’1″<\/p>\n

Place of Origin:<\/strong>
\nCentral Point, Oregon<\/p>\n

Ethnic Origin:<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s kind of a mystery, I\u2019m not really sure. I have a feeling that I\u2019m Dutch because I met a Dutch guy this season in Paris who\u2019s the spitting image of my grandpa. I get my hair from my mom\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

Birthsign:<\/strong>
\nBecause I\u2019m born on June 21, it depends on which one you\u2019re looking at. I\u2019m the cusp, on the summer solstice, so it\u2019s either Gemini or Cancer, whichever one I\u2019m feeling.<\/p>\n

How discovered:<\/strong>
\nI wasn\u2019t scouted like most guys were. When my mother agent first started, they lived right next door to my mom when I was in my mom\u2019s womb, so I grew up with my mom doing local commercials and local modeling stuff. At the time when I was so young, I thought my mom was famous. I was like, \u201cI want to be famous like my mom,\u201d so every three years I\u2019d go into my mother agency and they\u2019d always turn me down. They\u2019d say, \u201cIt\u2019s a waste of money, you wouldn\u2019t really get as much out of it as you wanted.\u201d Finally a year and a half ago they were like, \u201cAlright, we\u2019re ready, we\u2019ll take you.\u201d Then they sent me to IMTA, which is a modeling and talent convention and that\u2019s where I got signed with Storm, Wilhelmina, and then Next. Then I got signed with Elite down the road a bit.<\/p>\n

Favorite things:<\/strong>
\nThis might sound bad, but one of my favorite things is figuring out how I can manipulate a situation to where it will benefit me and maybe not so much actually carrying out, but really trying to analyze a situation and saying, \u201cOk here\u2019s what I can do, here\u2019s what this person wants, here\u2019s what I want, here\u2019s what I can give them.\u201d Just little stuff like that. Back home, I really got into the books How to Win Friends and Influence People, Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s Outliers, and The Definitive Book of Body Language. Other than that, I\u2019m a real social person. I love talking to people. If I\u2019m talking to people, I\u2019m good. That\u2019s my favorite thing.<\/p>\n

What are you listening to at the moment?<\/strong>
\nThe music I\u2019m listening to at the moment is the music that\u2019s getting played in my model apartment. They\u2019re always playing it, and they play everything from a little Michael Jackson to Kodak Black. One of my roommates actually plays the electric guitar, so he\u2019s playing like \u201cJohnny B. Goode,\u201d so it\u2019s really just a mix of really recent rap and then some classic rock.<\/p>\n

Favorite movie, tv show:<\/strong>
\nFavorite TV show I would have to say is True Detective. I loved that, I thought it just killed it. My favorite movie \u2014 I actually decided this on my flight to Europe \u2014 is Avatar, believe it or not. It has everything. It has sci-fi, it has romance, it has some action. I\u2019d be lying if I said I didn\u2019t get choked up when I was watching it sometimes. I was like, \u201cOh my gosh, what\u2019s happening? This is Avatar. I\u2019m getting choked up for Avatar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favorite designer, fragrance or beauty product:<\/strong>
\nPersonally for my hair, I don\u2019t like to use anything other than Tresemm\u00e9, just regular conditioner. I don\u2019t shampoo my hair because it makes it really frizzy, so I just throw some Tresemm\u00e9 in and just leave it for the rest of the day and then I\u2019m good to go. My favorite brand \u2014 I\u2019m a really simple guy but getting into fashion, I\u2019ve really gotten to like Off-White. I walked for their show in Paris and I was like, \u201cThat\u2019s sick, that\u2019s amazing.\u201d I\u2019m really into urban street style nowadays, which is pretty cool. Also there was this one brand when I was in Paris, Officine Generale. I dug their stuff. Everything I wore I was like, \u201cWow, fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Has your hair always been that curly?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah, from the time I was born, definitely. There was a phase when I was in like fifth grade, I grew my hair out to my shoulders and it\u2019s what I was known for, and so I just shaved it off. I didn\u2019t realize it at the time, but it really got me out of my shell. I\u2019d walk around with my mom and my mom has the same exact hair and when I grew my hair out to my shoulders, instantly all eyes were on us. I\u2019d just get so many moms coming up to us like, \u201cWow, your hair is so cool,\u201d and just talking to me directly as a person instead of as a child. It really gave me an opportunity to come out of my shell and speak to an adult at such a young age, so I appreciate it for that aspect, but like I said, I started getting known for my hair and not for me. So when I went into high school, it was a really dramatic phase like out of a movie. I was like, \u201cI hate my hair,\u201d and I shaved it all off and then immediately after I shaved it all off I regretted it. I was like, \u201cWow, this is horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

What would you be doing if you weren’t modeling?<\/strong>
\nRight now I\u2019d probably be getting all my prerequisite classes out of the way. Eventually I wanted to go to university obviously, but university is expensive. I was going to go to community college in my town, bust out some prereqs for two years, and then see where it takes me. By then hopefully I would\u2019ve known what I\u2019d like to major in. I\u2019ve been talking to a lot of guys and they\u2019re telling me that there\u2019s so much you can do with the internet. Really it is always better to go to school, but there are so many people who are so successful and start out their business just by doing it. I feel like I want to be a businessman regardless of whether I go to school or not.<\/p>\n

What’s something uncool that you love anyway?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s such a hard one because I love so many uncool things. Honestly some of the music that I listen to I feel like in most cases is uncool, like it would be almost frowned upon to play in my apartment. I\u2019m more of a mellow guy, so my music playlist is usually the last thing that I bring forward, so I guess that would probably be my uncool thing. There\u2019s Darwin Deez, it\u2019s kind of alternative rock, it\u2019s new wave almost. I feel like he\u2019s really creative. Jack Johnson, not the teen idol, but Jack Johnson the OG. I\u2019ve grown up listening to him since I was younger. He was amazing.<\/p>\n

Favorite modeling experience so far?<\/strong>
\nMy favorite modeling experience was my first campaign with Calvin Klein, the global advertising campaign for #mycalvins. It was surreal. I\u2019m hanging out at my house on a Tuesday night, it was like ten o\u2019clock, and then my mother agent calls me and says, \u201cHey, you need to take pictures in your Calvin Klein underwear and send them to Wilhelmina.\u201d I was like, \u201cOk, that\u2019s kind of weird,\u201d so I do that and then my agent told me, \u201cAlright so we should expect a phone call whether or not you booked it because you\u2019d fly out tomorrow.\u201d Then the casting guy for Calvin contacted me directly and we got my flight figured out and I flew out at four o\u2019clock that morning. They bleached my hair there and then they put me on a little bus in the middle of the desert in this one lake. I forget the name of the lake, but it was a dried-up lake in the hills like three hours outside LA. It was incredible. That was probably the coolest thing. That was when I was like, \u201cWow, I could get used to this model life.\u201d<\/p>\n

What was the hardest thing to get used to about the business?<\/strong>
\nTraveling. Literally a year before I started modeling, I had my first plane flight. Three years ago I flew to Texas for my brother\u2019s Air Force graduation and since then I\u2019ve flown at least twenty or thirty times. I\u2019m a very social person and when I feel the most homesick, when I feel the most alone is when I\u2019m in a new place, a different country. It was harder when I started last year because I didn\u2019t know anyone, but this year going to all these different countries was a lot better because I knew a few more people, which made the transition a lot better.<\/p>\n

What’s the best thing about your hometown\/country?<\/strong>
\nThe best thing about my hometown is how small it is. I can walk from one end to the other. Growing up there, I\u2019ve known so many people and you think you know someone and then you talk to them more and you find out, \u201cWhoa, they\u2019re completely different.\u201d Being in a small town really enables you to do that.<\/p>\n

Place you would love to visit:<\/strong>
\nI really want to go to Alaska. My older brother is stationed out in Alaska and it just sounds like the most beautiful place. If you\u2019re not stuck there under a job contract like he is, I just feel like it would be a beautiful place to visit.<\/p>\n

Currently you’re obsessed with\/about:<\/strong>
\nIn the modeling industry, I got told right out of the starting gate that there\u2019s nothing I can do to make an influence on the casting directors or on anyone. It\u2019s just strictly based off my look, and in some aspect that\u2019s absolutely true. You go into a casting and they know whether they want to book you or not just off your walk and your look, but I\u2019m obsessed with figuring out how people work, like I said, really analyzing someone. What I like to do is get a little bit of information so that way when I get that three-minute window, I can just hit them with something, like a question that might make me stick out in their head. I feel like fate is in your hands to an extent. It depends on how hard you want to work and what you want to do.<\/p>\n

What is the best piece of advice you\u2019ve ever been given?<\/strong>
\nEveryone in my whole entire life is full of great advice. The best advice that I was given is a quote that my dad told me. It was along the lines of \u201cSpeak like you know, but listen like you don\u2019t.\u201d I like that because, being sixteen and getting thrown into this industry, I didn\u2019t know anything. I didn\u2019t want to come into it pretending like I knew what I was doing, because then I feel like it would just backfire and I would get thrown into something I wasn\u2019t ready for. I really had to just take a moment to analyze the situation and just listen to what\u2019s happening. That\u2019s how I learned pretty much everything that I\u2019ve learned. When you\u2019re backstage on an editorial shoot, that\u2019s how you learn everything, you just listen. Honestly that\u2019s one of the first things I\u2019m going to tell my kids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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