{"id":53859,"date":"2016-11-22T09:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/?p=53859"},"modified":"2016-11-23T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:51:41","slug":"alijah-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/modeloftheweek\/53859","title":{"rendered":"Alijah Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alijah was shot exclusively for MODELS.com by Greg Vaughan<\/a> (BALLOON<\/a>), with styling by Javon Drake<\/a>, and grooming by Eloise Cheung<\/a> @ Kate Ryan Inc using Dermalogica. Interview by Jonathan Shia<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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interview<\/h2>\n

Name:<\/strong>
\nAlijah Harrison<\/a><\/p>\n

Agency:<\/strong>
\nSoul Artist Management (New York)<\/a>
\nAlso with: Supa Model Management (London)<\/a> \/ Mother Management (St. Louis – mother agency)<\/a><\/p>\n

Age:<\/strong>
\n21<\/p>\n

Height:<\/strong>
\n6’1″<\/p>\n

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

Place of Origin:<\/strong>
\nHannibal, Missouri. It\u2019s Mark Twain\u2019s hometown, that\u2019s what we\u2019re known for.<\/p>\n

Ethnic Origin:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m actually not sure. My parents don\u2019t know, but I\u2019ve heard a lot of Scandinavian.<\/p>\n

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

How discovered:<\/strong>
\nIn a gas station. I was buying a candy bar, just going about my day, about to get on the road with my sister, and my mother agents Jeff and Mary just happened to be at the same gas station passing back to St. Louis. They approached me and the next weekend I was down doing test shoots, and then four months later they brought me to New York.<\/p>\n

Favorite things:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m a huge sports guy. I love sports, any sports. I did football, basketball, and tennis in high school. I\u2019m trying to get into cooking. I\u2019m learning to cook a little bit now that I have some more free time on my hands. I\u2019m also very competitive, so any competition I\u2019m usually down for. And fitness. I was very into fitness before I got into modeling and that just carried over. And now I\u2019m getting into fashion and I\u2019m liking to learn about this crazy world.<\/p>\n

What are you listening to at the moment?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m still stuck on Drake\u2014some of his older stuff though, like \u201cStar67,\u201d \u201cKaraoke,\u201d a couple of my favorites right there.<\/p>\n

Favorite movie, tv show:<\/strong>
\nMovie, definitely Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. I\u2019m a huge Matt Damon fan. TV show, How I Met Your Mother.<\/p>\n

Favorite designer, fragrance or beauty product:<\/strong>
\nThis is so biased, but I got to go Versace.<\/p>\n

What would you be doing if you weren’t modeling?<\/strong>
\nI was in college working a part-time job, planning on doing that for the next four years and then getting in the cycle like every other American. I just finished my first year of engineering, so I wanted to go into computer or electrical engineering, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll stay with that or if I\u2019ll switch when I go back. My job was working at a manufacturing company testing brake cables and brake levers, so it was right along what I was going to school for.<\/p>\n

What’s something uncool that you love anyway?<\/strong>
\nSolving Rubik\u2019s Cubes. One of my friends back in middle school got me into them. He was messing around with one and I wanted to try it, so I just picked it up. He taught me how to do it, so that\u2019s how I got into it.<\/p>\n

What’s your record?<\/strong>
\nJust under a minute was the fastest I could ever do, but now I can\u2019t do it that fast.<\/p>\n

Favorite modeling experience so far?<\/strong>
\nGetting to go to Napoli. When I was in Italy, I had a job in Napoli and I got to try a pizza from Napoli and it definitely fit the hype. The best pizza I\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n

First modeling job:<\/strong>
\nThe first big one was the Versace Jeans campaign. That was my first time working with people of that caliber. I had never seen an actual set that complex, like the lighting schemes and stuff like that. They shaved my head so I\u2019ve been growing it out ever since then. I was overwhelmed at the time a little bit, but it was definitely a good experience for me. It was after like a month-and-a-half, two months of living here when that came through.<\/p>\n

What’s the best thing about your hometown\/country?<\/strong>
\nThe friendly atmosphere. They call it America\u2019s Hometown and if you\u2019re driving down the street, most people are going to wave at you. People are going to hold the door open for you, say, \u201cHi, how\u2019s your day going?\u201d It\u2019s just a different culture with the people.<\/p>\n

Which brand would you really love to model for?<\/strong>
\nI would love to do a Philipp Plein show just because they\u2019re crazy, but Versace was such a great opportunity for me starting out. That\u2019s one of my favorites as well.<\/p>\n

Place you would love to visit:<\/strong>
\nMaybe Yosemite. I like nature. I love the city, I love Milan, London, but when I\u2019m traveling for myself, it would probably be to more natural places.<\/p>\n

Currently you’re obsessed with\/about:<\/strong>
\nPlaying basketball. I\u2019ve been playing a lot lately and when you get enough guys together, it\u2019s a good time. We have this little park outside of our apartment not too far, so we usually play there.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best piece of advice you\u2019ve been given?<\/strong>
\nMy dad always told me growing up, if it\u2019s worth doing, it\u2019s worth doing right. You can apply that to everything in life, so it\u2019s one of my favorite quotes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alijah, 21, from Missouri, loves Drake’s music, Matt Damon movies, and solving Rubik’s Cubes. He’s the latest newcomer to nab Model of the Week, shot exclusively for MODELS.com by Greg Vaughan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[3978,3903,3837,3902,3838,3840,203,1446,2147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53908,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53859\/revisions\/53908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}