{"id":85244,"date":"2016-06-10T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=85244"},"modified":"2016-06-26T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T14:42:31","slug":"reuben-ramacher-hits-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=85244","title":{"rendered":"Reuben Ramacher Hits New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jacket – Roberto Cavalli.<\/p>\n

Photographer – Emmie America<\/a> for Models.com | Stylist – Lisa Jarvis<\/a>
\nHair – Eric Williams<\/a> | Grooming – Miriam Robstad<\/a> (Bryan Bantry<\/a>)
\nModel – Reuben Ramacher<\/a> | Photographer’s assistant – Jo Imperio | Special thanks to John Babin at Red<\/p>\n

\"Splice1R\"<\/p>\n

Left: Shirt – Roberto Cavalli. Choker – Chanel. | Right: All clothing – Tripp NYC. Shoes – Dr. Martens.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say that Reuben Ramacher has learned his lesson not to give up too easily. A few years ago, the Australian model was on the verge of quitting the industry after six months without a single job when he finally got the one that launched his career: the cover of i-D shot by Hedi Slimane. \u201cA week or two before the job came up, I called my agent and I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t want to do this anymore, it makes me feel like shit going to these castings,\u2019\u201d he recalls. \u201cThen he calls me up and he\u2019s like, \u2018Are you sure you want to quit? Because I\u2019ve got a job in Los Angeles in two days, do you want to go?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Of course!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramacher was first discovered by a makeup artist who was working on a shoot with his mother, a photographer, and it\u2019s not hard to understand why he might not have been the best fit for Australia. With his pale skin, sharp features, and dark hair, he\u2019s a world away from the more commercial surfer types the market down there is drawn to. In dark eyeliner and a ruffled shirt, as he appears on that i-D cover from Spring 2013, he has an androgynous rock-star vibe, a niche which he has stayed comfortably within ever since. \u201cSo far, every job I get is always either David Bowie or Mick Jagger,\u201d he laughs, \u201cbut I don\u2019t mind the rock-star look. If anything, it\u2019s more fun than standard shoots. They always want you to do something crazy or look like you\u2019ve had a crazy night out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Splice3R\"<\/p>\n

Left: Jacket – Roberto Cavalli. | Right: Shirt – Roberto Cavalli. Pants – Tripp NYC. Choker – Chanel.<\/p>\n

\"Splice2R\"<\/p>\n

Left: Shirt – Roberto Cavalli. Choker – Chanel. | Right: Jacket – Tripp NYC.<\/p>\n

Slimane liked Ramacher so much after shooting with him that he immediately cast him in his Spring 2014 Saint Laurent show, and the model has gone on to shoot with Karim Sadli for repeat Diesel campaigns and Sebastian Faena for Sisley. Appearances in Wonderland, Commons & Sense, and Essential Homme have kept him busy and on our Top 50 list season after season, but he somehow has only recently finally made his way to New York, now a good four years after first being scouted. \u201cI went to London and I was like, \u2018It\u2019s the best city in the world, New York\u2019s going to be nothing compared to this,\u2019 and I spent two days here and I was like, \u2018I live here now, I\u2019m not going anywhere else,\u2019\u201d he jokes.<\/p>\n

For Ramacher, who is looking forward to exploring all the continent\u2019s landmarks while he\u2019s here\u2014ideally during a cross-country road trip\u2014that joyful sense of discovery is exactly what keeps him in the business. \u201cComing from Australia, it\u2019s minimum ten hours to get anywhere, so for me to go and live overseas for as long as I want and travel wherever I want is amazing,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd to be paid while doing it, there\u2019s not many other opportunities like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramacher\u2019s already made an impressive New York d\u00e9but on Public School\u2019s latest runway earlier this week, and he credits his continuing success to simply good fortune. Arriving just as Slimane\u2019s skinny, shiny, slick vision for Saint Laurent was having its widest impact, he was at the forefront of the latest turn towards androgyny. \u201cYou can look at fashion, and each time it goes through a different trend and then something will change,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just goes through phases and I\u2019m sure within a year this phase will be over. It always changes and it comes in and out, so I think I was just lucky to come into the industry at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"10<\/p>\n

Jacket – Roberto Cavalli.<\/p>\n

\"Splice4R\"<\/p>\n

Left: All clothing – Roberto Cavalli. | Right: Shirt – Roberto Cavalli. Earring – Chanel.<\/p>\n

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The longtime Top 50 favorite brings his rock-star androgyny to America for the first time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,10169],"tags":[9843,10314,10428,10147,10429,9263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85244"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85373,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85244\/revisions\/85373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}