{"id":79439,"date":"2016-03-17T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=79439"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:36:30","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-henrik-fallenius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/a-day-in-the-life-henrik-fallenius\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life: Henrik Fallenius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, Henrik Fallenius<\/a> had his whole life mapped out ahead of him. He was working as a psychologist in his native Sweden, helping troubled children, and he was resigned to his fate. \u201cI was set on a nine-to-five,\u201d he laughs. \u201cI was thinking I was going to work as a psychologist until I was like sixty and retire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, on a trip to Copenhagen, everything changed. He was scouted on the street by Scoop Models and, a few months later, found himself on the runway in Paris, where he walked for Herm\u00e8s and Berluti in his first season before shooting Vogue Hommes International with David Sims. \u201cI was back and forth trying to fit working as a psychologist nine to five with taking sick days for modeling,\u201d he recalls. \u201cAfter half a year, I got my visa, so I sold my apartment, sold my car, sold my motorcycle, and moved to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, he has become a fixture on the modeling scene thanks to his campaigns for H&M, Joe Fresh, and Belstaff, and he was one of the first male models to sport the bearded look that has become so popular of late. \u201cI don\u2019t regret it at all,\u201d he says of his decision to risk everything to change careers. \u201cIt\u2019s opened so many doors for me to start doing other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

With all that\u2019s changed, even Fallenius finds it hard to believe that it has only been five years, a short time that is a surprise given both his accomplishments and the standard career trajectory in the industry. \u201cPeople assume, because I\u2019m older that, I\u2019ve been modeling for ten years,\u201d he laughs. \u201cBut no, I really started when I was twenty-eight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now thirty-two, Fallenius has started to branch out into styling and creative direction as well, often working with his friend, the photographer (and fellow model) Max Papendieck<\/a>, who also shot the images below of Fallenius on a typical day in New York exclusively for Models.com.<\/p>\n

Henrik Fallenius<\/a> (Soul Artist Management (New York)<\/a>), photographs by Max Papendieck<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery day, I always run. People always ask me, \u2018What\u2019s your fitness routine? What\u2019s your diet?\u2019 I don\u2019t really have a diet, I don\u2019t really have a routine. My only routine is I do six miles in the morning every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\"Max_Papendieck_Henrik_Fallenius2\"<\/p>\n

\u201cI started running in the army. We did running as a drill every morning and I started liking it and now I can\u2019t really live without it. It\u2019s my meditation. After fifteen minutes I zone out and my head\u2019s all clear. If I\u2019m sick or anything and I can\u2019t run, I get really antsy. It\u2019s my time to just relax, clear my head, and get started with the day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\"Max_Papendieck_Henrik_Fallenius3\"<\/p>\n

\u201cI live on the Lower East Side. I\u2019ve been living there for about two years now. This was my first real lease. This place is legit mine. I love it down there because that\u2019s the only part that\u2019s really New York still. It\u2019s still a bit gritty and, for me, it\u2019s still the real New York.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\"Max_Papendieck_Henrik_Fallenius4\"<\/p>\n\n

\"Max_Papendieck_Henrik_fallenius5\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThe job was for Americana Manhasset, by Rocco Laspata and Charles DeCaro. It was a holiday catalog with Caroline Trentini. She was really cool. To be honest, all the top girls, they\u2019re always the nicest ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\"Max_Papendieck_Henrik_Fallenius6\"<\/p>\n\n

\"Max_Papendieck_Henrik_Fallenius7\"<\/p>\n\n

\"Max_Papendieck_Henrik_Fallenius8\"<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m heading to Copenhagen for another job. I came in the day before, did this job, and flew out in the evening back to Copenhagen. I travel really light. For day trips, I pack running gear, underwear, and just the basics. Sometimes I even forget to get underwear. But I always bring a good leather jacket\u2014it\u2019s good in the warm and good in the cold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four hours in New York with the Swedish former psychologist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":79458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[8954,10160,8240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79439"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83500,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79439\/revisions\/83500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}