‘Female models were rightly paid more than us. I wanted to even things up’

David Gandy is comfortable. The super model, born in Essex, sits in a light -filled cuisine, sipping a glass of water and reflected in her 25 -year career.

45 -year -old, Gandy’s striking dark brown hair, sharp cheekbones and piercing blue eyes are at the center of the most iconic campaigns of the last twenty years of fashion and is one of the few male models with home names.

“I always say I’m inspired by women super models, Gand says Gandy, Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. “You don’t even have to say your surname.

“This is not what I have the status,” he laughs.

It was Gandy’s contract with Dolce & Gabbana, who threw his career, a campaign for the model brand’s light blue odor line has come to the forefront – its most important work.

It began with an advertisement in the rudder of a boat wearing a bay near Capri in Italy and wearing only a pair of white trunks. As the model leans to embrace with Marija Vujović, her hair retracts. Gandy remained the face of the brand for an impressive 18 years.

He says that the light blue campaign gives him a platform to approach the level of female colleagues. “Much more money was paid than us – rightly. I just wanted to go up a little, or he says with a cartilage.

Gandy spoke with BBC News before the ongoing London Fashion Week this weekend and was eager to discuss that they saw it as an existential threat to the artificial intelligence (AI) fashion industry.

Gandy comes as more than 2,000 professional models, including Twiggy and Yasmin Le Bon, and if productive artificial intelligence can be used to create human -like images in seconds, it calls for protecting people’s rights.

“Now we see campaigns created by other brands that Guess and the model never exist,” Gandy said. Says. “Whether he learns AI – they call it scraping – small pieces of image from different models and different people, and creating it to an image is one of the gray areas and problems.”

Gandy is afraid that the use of AI models without further arrangements can cause irreparable damage to the sector.

“England produces some of the largest models,” he says, “and we want to continue this tradition.”

It is not only the effect of Gandy on the models that he worries about, but also the effect on the construction of fashion images, including photographers.

“The idea that you get this art from people,” he explains. “Hairdressers, makeup artists, many assistants, even position itself. You make that item unnecessary.”

As the father of two young girls, Gandy says he is worried about the impact of the images produced by AI on mental health, especially among young people.

“Looking at something that is not real – where the person does not exist – we do not know the effect yet, or he says.

Gandy emphasizes that the fashion industry will inevitably embrace AI from some angles, but it should be “regulation”.

For many, super model status may mean that your personal life is as well as known as your work in fashion. However, Gandy, his partner Stephanie Mendoros, daughters and rescue dog Dora – Gandy, said Gandy, from London’s home near Richmond Park, strongly protects his privacy. In our visit, he takes care to protect the pictures of the Dotalı family around the house.

“I have always separated my private life and business life, or he says. “They’re two separate things. Nobody knows what my children look like;

Speech quickly returns to his garden. “I think you’re coming to an age, I’m not sure if it’s about 40 years old, but some men become obsessed with their grass,” he says, something he’s confessed to a joke, there’s a fluffy castle on all summer.

He tells me that his daughters like to dress him. “They put me with rails with rabbit ears and ears, and I forgot I was wearing them,” he remembers, “Then I went to shop with them.”

“I went back and my wife told me, ‘Do you know you have rabbit ears?’ He said.

Gandy laughs by shaking his head.

Some of his children’s friends now know him from commercials, tell me, but Gandy says he’s not often known on the street, although it’s a well -known face.

“I said to me,” I know you somewhere, “he laughed when he’s behind them,” he laughs, he said he was never worried about adjusting anyone.

“I always say I have a very good level of fame, Gand says Gandy. “Ninety -nine percent of people come to me when they come and chat.”

A government spokesman said:

“Fast technologies such as artificial intelligence bring great opportunities and complex challenges. We know that some individuals are worried about their ability to protect their similarities.

“The British law already offers some protection for the aspects of a person’s identity, and we continue to seek an opinion on how they work and need any change.”

The estimation for the comment approached.