Gisele Bündchen reflects on one of the most traumatizing moments she had on the runway
us.hola.comGisele Bündchen has had every model’s dream career, but it wasn’t always an easy road. In an interview for British Vogue’s “Life in Looks,” she reflected on Alexander McQueen’s spring 1998 catwalk, where she walked the runway twice with her breasts exposed. “This was one of the most traumatizing moments,” she said as she looked at the photo of herself in a revealing silver top.Bündchen shared some insight into how hard she hustled at the start of her career, “I mean I didn’t know English, it was my first show season in London.
I did 42 castings,” she explained. “I remember going to all these castings and nobody would even look at my book because it was the heroin chic time and I didn’t look like nothing like the heroin chic, obviously as you can see in this photo,” she quipped. “But when I went to the casting for Alexander McQueen, there was a like a thousand girls around the block.
It was the craziest thing. And he was just sitting on this couch and he would go and say, ‘walk’ and he would put you in these impossible shoes,” she recalled.
Once she booked the job, there was no fitting, so she had no idea what she was going to wear. “I didn’t have a fitting, so when I showed up at the show, I was like, ‘What am I wearing?‘” She said, explaining she knew a few words in English and would pretend to understand the rest. “I was like, ‘Is it a T-shirt or something?’ No, it was this.
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