So Saturday in Milan becomes David Gandy day, with a host of events to celebrate the collaboration between Dolce&Gabbana and the man himself...
Dolce&Gabbana will celebrate their collaboration with David Gandy with a series of events on Saturday June 18th:
2.00 pm – Metropol, viale Piave 24: SS 2012 Men’s Show. By invitation only.
4.30 pm – from Metropol to piazza Duomo. David Gandy, as a star in a modern version of the Dolce Vita, will get into a vintage black Triumph and will speed towards piazza Duomo.
5.00 pm - La Rinascente, piazza Duomo. David Gandy, who has been the spokesmodel of the Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue fragrance since 2007, will meet the fans.
6.30 pm - Dolce & Gabbana Women’s Boutique, via Spiga 26. David and his friends will go for a walk along Via Della Spiga, and will reach the Dolce&Gabbana boutique, where a presentation of a limited edition of t-shirts portraying David - with pictures by Mariano Vivanco - takes place. David will stop and sign the t-shirts for the fans who might want him to. Part of the proceeds will go to support the association “Amici del gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi” – Project EUPLOOS.
9.00 pm - Dolce & Gabbana Men’s Boutique, corso Venezia 13. Launch party for the book David Gandy by Dolce&Gabbana, published by Rizzoli, which will be available for purchase from that day. By invitation only.
Nomen Omen, the latin phrase which literally means “the fate in the name”, might be the best starting point to describe this book, which is entirely dedicated to the life, successes and passions of the man and model David Gandy: his initials, DG, for a strange coincidence, are in fact the very same of Dolce&Gabbana.
The book retraces the fundamental steps of this young David Gandy's career: from his very first moments in the fashion world, to the advertising campaign of the fragrance “Light Blue”, shot by Mario Testino, up to articulate the model’s connection with Dolce&Gabbana through the pictures Steven Klein dedicated to him during the advertising campaigns.
The volume has also been enriched with new images shot exclusively for this project by Mariano Vivanco, the photographer whose camera had already captured David Gandy’s sensuality and erotic charge to perfection for an iconic calendar, back in 2008.
The proceeds will go to support the association “Amici del Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi” - Project EUPLOOS. The project was born out of an initiative by the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe of the Uffizi (GDSU) – Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale of the City of Florence, in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck- Institut and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. Project EUPLOOS aims to put online the entire collection of the GDSU by creating a complete, accessible computerized catalogue.
Publication date: 18th June 2011
David Gandy (Billericay, UK, 19th February 1980) is a British model renowned for his chiseled physique. After leaving the University of Gloucestershire in 2001, he becomes known to the public thanks to the advertising campaign of the Dolce&Gabbana fragrance Light Blue Pour Homme, in 2007. In 2009 Forbes Magazine places him third in the list of most successful male models.A Rugby fan and self-confessed “petrol-head”, he is a contributor for the British version of GQ, writing the column David Gandy drives, and he’s a guest blogger on Vogue.co.uk with his own weblog. His digital presence is extended to an application for smartphones, David Gandy Style Guide For Men.
DAVID GANDY AND DOLCE&GABBANA
2002
David Gandy is unknowingly enrolled in a modelling competition, presented by Richard and Judy within their famous tv show. David wins the selection and starts working as a model in London.
JANUARY 2006
David Gandy takes part in his fi rst A/W 2006-07 menswear fashion show for Dolce&Gabbana, and is among the protagonists of the advertising campaign photographed by Steven Meisel.
MAY 2007
David Gandy becomes the spokesmodel for the campaign launch of the new men’s fragrance by Dolce&Gabbana, Light Blue Pour Homme, shot by Mario Testino. Th e video for the commercial receives 11 million hits online, and the image dominates Times Square with a 50 ft billboard.
JANUARY 2008
Dolce&Gabbana celebrates David Gandy with an iconic calendar inspired by classical sculpture, shot by Mariano Vivanco.
FROM AUGUST 2008
David Gandy is one of the models for the Dolce&Gabbana menswear collection advertising campaigns, shot by Steven Klein.
SEPTEMBER 2008
David lends his face and body to the advertisement for the Dolce&Gabbana Underwear collection 12on12.
FEBRUARY 2009
David is a guest during the fi nal of the Italian musical competition Festival di Sanremo.
NOVEMBER 2009/
NOVEMBER 2010
The campaign for Dolce&Gabbana Make-up features David Gandy co-starring alongside Scarlett Johansson in an image shot by Sølve Sundsbø.
MAY 2010
Mario Testino returns to direct the sequel of the Light Blue Pour Homme advertising campaign, which portrays David amidst Capri’s Faraglioni with model Anna Jagodzinska, the female spokesmodel for the fragrance Light Blue Pour Femme.
JANUARY 2011
Th e book Uomini is presented in Milan during fashion week. David Gandy appears in some of the images featured in the book, which consists of a series of nude, male portraits shot by Mariano Vivanco.
JUNE 2011
Dolce&Gabbana publishes David Gandy by Dolce&Gabbbana with Rizzoli, a book which retraces the most important milestones in David’s career. Th e book is also enriched by numerous, new images shot by Mariano Vivanco specifi cally for the occasion. Th e proceeds will go to support the association “Amici del Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degliUffi zi” - Project EUPLOOS, which aims to put online the entire collection of the GDSU by creating a complete, computerized catalogue which is accessible on the internet.
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