{"id":55323,"date":"2017-03-01T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/?p=55323"},"modified":"2017-03-01T03:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T08:20:14","slug":"jegor-venned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/newfaces\/modeloftheweek\/55323","title":{"rendered":"Jegor Venned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jegor was shot exclusively for MODELS.com by Gregory Vaughan<\/a>, with styling by Javon Drake<\/a>, and grooming by Scott Mcmahan<\/a> @ Kate Ryan Inc. Interview by Jonathan Shia<\/a>. Digitals courtesy Tara Lanoway at Wilhelmina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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interview<\/h2>\n

Name:<\/strong>
\nJegor Venned<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

Height:<\/strong>
\n6’2.5<\/p>\n

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

Place of Origin:<\/strong>
\nMi\u00f0v\u00e1gur, Faroe Islands<\/p>\n

Ethnic Origin:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m half Russian, half Faroese<\/p>\n

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

How discovered:<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a funny story. I was at a party at my cousin\u2019s place. It was six AM, pouring down rain, I\u2019ve never looked this bad in my life, and this guy comes over to me and was like, \u201cYo, you should be a model.\u201d He had nothing to do with fashion at all, and he took some photos of me and just sent them to the agencies in Denmark. All of them said no until Elite saw me and they wanted to sign me and then that\u2019s it. I was pretty young when they scouted me. I was still in school so I had to finish. I was still 15 or 16 when I did my first fashion week in Paris.<\/p>\n

Favorite things:<\/strong>
\nFirst of all, I can\u2019t live without music. I listen to music 24\/7, I\u2019m always into music. I always write lyrics for song ideas. I need music to keep me going, I need music for anything I do. I also love sports. I played football all my life.<\/p>\n

What kind of music do you play?<\/strong>
\nI played saxophone as a kid. I started in third grade and I always wanted to play guitar, but my mom and dad didn\u2019t buy me a guitar or drums, but I always tried to play drums. I always had rhythm. Now I\u2019m trying to learn to produce, to get really good at it. I didn\u2019t do music for like four years and now I\u2019m back at it and trying to sing, trying to produce myself, and work with people that are producers. It\u2019s kind of alternative hip hop, like futuristic with a little bit of soul and symphonic.<\/p>\n

What are you listening to at the moment?<\/strong>
\nAt the moment, I\u2019m obsessed with trap music like Migos and Travis Scott.<\/p>\n

Favorite movie, tv show:<\/strong>
\nMy favorite movie is called Brat 2. It\u2019s a Russian movie about two gangster brothers from the 90s. I never really watch TV shows, but the only TV show that I\u2019ve watched until the end was Breaking Bad so I would say that one.<\/p>\n

Favorite designer, fragrance or beauty product:<\/strong>
\nIt depends on my mood. I like all designers, I don\u2019t think I have a favorite one. It really depends on what I feel like I want to wear that day. I\u2019ve been using Bleu de Chanel most of the time or Tom Ford Noir. I use Bumble and Bumble Surf Spray and their hair gel, and then for facial products I don\u2019t even know what I use. I bought it in a cosmetic salon when I had a skin cleanse and I\u2019ve been using it since.<\/p>\n

What would you be doing if you weren’t modeling?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve been modeling full time for two years since I was 16, but I would probably right now either be in school in the Faroe Islands or I would be sailing, like a fisherman. That\u2019s probably what I would do, but I always had big plans for my life. I always wanted to do something with entertainment and I loved fashion since I was a little kid. I always watched FashionTV with my mom since first grade and I was always into clothes.<\/p>\n

So how does it feel to be a part of the fashion industry now?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s great. It\u2019s really cool because all of these people that I work with are big idols to me, and I love art, I love fashion, and I love to be a part of the designers\u2019 art and their ideas. It feels really great that these people want my look for their art. I\u2019m really proud of where I am.<\/p>\n

What’s something uncool that you love anyway?<\/strong>
\nI like a lot of things that people probably think are really weird and nerdy. I\u2019m a big fan of sci-fi and I love watching documentaries about the universe. I\u2019m really into all kinds of scientific stuff and I watched all the Star Wars movies. I watched everything, like Star Trek. A lot of people like it, but I mean, it\u2019s nerdy. I probably don\u2019t know it myself, but I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a lot.<\/p>\n

First modeling job?<\/strong>
\nMy first show was Versace. I had just turned 16. That\u2019s the last time I remember I was nervous before a show. It was a big moment of course, but I didn\u2019t really know what was going on. It was big and there were all these cameras and I was wearing Versace, but I got used to it and I liked it.<\/p>\n

Favorite modeling experience so far?<\/strong>
\nProbably the Givenchy campaign, flying out to LA with Riccardo and shooting with Mert and Marcus and Carine Roitfeld. That was really amazing shooting that campaign, that experience I had out there was great. It\u2019s probably the coolest location I\u2019ve been to as well, those two, three days we were out in the desert and the people that I worked with. Just those two days I learned a lot. I was working with really cool, good people. Or the cover of Vogue Hommes International.<\/p>\n

What’s the best thing about your hometown\/country?<\/strong>
\nThe feeling of safety, I would say. You feel really safe out there. There\u2019s not a lot of people, and my life is really different for me there now, but growing up there, I could just run around and do whatever I wanted. My parents were never afraid of me going out. There\u2019s no crime, there\u2019s nothing really too bad going on, so I think as a kid having that freedom just to do whatever you want\u2014out all night and all day and your parents not worrying is pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Do you get to go back often?<\/strong>
\nI just went back for Christmas, but I don\u2019t really want to go back. My life changed a lot and that lifestyle there has not really ever been my life and I never really felt at home there.<\/p>\n

Which brand would you really love to model for?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve done Givenchy, which I always really wanted to do. I love Givenchy. I\u2019ve done Versace, one of my favorite brands ever. Just the story of Versace\u2019s cool. I worked with those, that\u2019s what I wanted, but there\u2019s probably one client that I haven\u2019t worked with yet, that\u2019s Tom Ford. I would really like to do Tom Ford.<\/p>\n

Place you would love to visit:<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m a big fan of Africa. I always wanted to go around the whole of Africa, in the jungles, in nature, and experience nature and do charity work. That\u2019s what I always wanted to do, go around Africa. Especially Morocco, Marrakesh. I haven\u2019t been anywhere in Africa, but that\u2019s definitely the place I want to go to the most. Everybody wants to go to a beach and relax or to some nice place, but what I wanted to see with my own eyes and experience is Africa.<\/p>\n

Currently you’re obsessed with\/about:<\/strong>
\nMusic, lately. It just came back to me a couple of months ago. I didn\u2019t do anything with it for like five years. I was playing football, I was doing sports, and I\u2019m just obsessed with music right now. It\u2019s on my mind all the time, I write lyrics all the time. I would really say I\u2019m obsessed with it.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best piece of advice you\u2019ve ever been given?<\/strong>
\nFrom my grandpa, he was such a good person, and he was always just telling me to always enjoy my life, no matter what, and always have fun with everything I do. I don\u2019t know how to explain it. He said it in Russian, but just have fun with everything and enjoy whatever you do, even the bad moments. It sounds really good in Russian when he said it, but that\u2019s probably how I would translate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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