_Celebrating Jamie Strachan

If I didn't have such a supporting and grounding influence from home I don't think I would be modeling at all. Photo courtesy of Select Model Management.

Jed: Here's a question that would allow the viewers to learn more about your modeling, how did it all began??

Jamie: I started modeling, by getting tricked to go to the office by my mother. She used to model and so did my sister. So from all of that my Mum had worked up a few contacts and a fairly good idea of what they were looking for. So I was on my way to finishing school completely, and Mum figured I needed a holiday job before University.

So she took me in to the office (I was thinking we were buying books for school or something) and I was signed up within 20 minutes. ) I started doing jobs for Dazed and Confused and Arena Homme plus and then I got exclusive Jil Sander contract for their show. And that was I started.

Jed: Tell us about some of the modeling stints you have done that really made you feel good being a model, perhaps you could list down some of your favorite modeling assignments so far?

Jamie: I can't I have ever felt really good about being a model, its more embarrassing than anything. I like modeling when they take me on trips to the sun and everyone I'm working with is relaxed.

Favorite campaigns: The Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, and Kenzo Campaigns
Favorite fashion shoots locations: Zanzibar, Saint Bart's, Kona (Hawaii) and Rio de Janeiro

Favorite cities: New York, London (I don't really like cities but they are cool as cities go.)
Favorite models: Annabel H, Boyd Holbrook, Lee Craig, Jamie Brunskill, Omahyra Mota, Jaquetta Wheeler, Carla Duffus, Alistair Couldry and many more friends who have all made modeling much more fun for me. Oh and Kate Moss! (she isn't a friend, but a definite favorite)

	A Sampling of Jamie on the runways! From Calvin Klein to Moschino to Nicole Farhi to D&G, Versus and Gucci. Photos from firstview.

Jed: What are the reactions of your family about modeling? Is this a factor that somehow influenced you over your professional choices?

Jamie: If I didn't have such a supporting and grounding influence from home I don't think I would be modeling at all. On spending more time in New York there was a definite influence from my sister Natasha who also lives there.

Jed: Tell us something about yourself and what are the things you like.

Jamie: I feel like I am a very normal guy in a very abnormal business. I sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed by it all. But I realize I am very lucky. I love all music especially rock/metal music and I into skateboarding (although I am crap at it).

I snowboard and surf whenever I can. I draw all the time in my sketchbook, which comes everywhere with me.

Jed: Could you tell us about where you're born? What are some of your impressions of your birthplace and of England?

Jamie: I am actually outside my parent's house now, which is in the south west of England in the countryside. Which, if not on a beach, is my favorite place in the world. I was born in Bristol, and I don't remember much of it because I left there when I was 2. But I did move back, after a stint in the USA, when I was 6. Then I lived there for another 3 or so years. Bristol is a place like London but smaller and less hectic.