Six degrees

The Fall/Winter 2013/2014 menswear season is in full swing in Europe and our new face from Friday Nathaniel Visser did indeed, as predicted, make his international runway debut at Sunday's Calvin Klein Collection show - joined by Brisbane native Joel Meacock. So far we have counted twelve Australians on the menswear runways in London, Florence, Milan and Paris. Joining Visser as a new face of the season is Elijah Tyedmers - an 18 year-old Sydney University medical student who was scouted last year by Sydney's eMg Models in line buying popcorn at a Hoyts cinema. Canadian-born, but an Australian citizen (his father is Australian), Tyedmers is not spending his summer holidays lazing on a beach in Oz or Vanuatu for that matter, where his parents are based - but rather, rugged up in furs and flannels walking for the likes of Fendi, Salvatore Ferragamo, Z Zegna and Joseph Abboud. 

Interestingly, Tyedmers is not the only university-educated member of the Aussie male model pack.

While Byron Bay's Kye d'Arcy is a surfer, skater and artist, Jordan and Zac Stenmark commenced Ag Science degrees at Sydney University on AFL scholarships, before putting their studies on hold to model. Angus Low has a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the University of Brisbane. And Meacock is an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, studying Sports Science on a soccer scholarship.

While we have heard of a few local female models who have undertaken university courses - three cases in point, Alice Burdeu, Eliza Humble and of course Julia Nobis, who is studying a Bachelor of Science at RMIT - overall, tertiary education seems to be far less of a priority when it comes to the girls.

Here are the show lists of the Australians to date on the men's FW1314 runways. More to come. 

KYE D'ARCY
Hardy Amies
Xander Zhou
Katie Eary (opened)
James Long
Moncler Gamme Bleu
Roccobarocco
Moschino
Thom Browne

ELIJAH TYEDMERS
Salvatore Ferragamo

Z Zegna
Fendi
Joseph Abboud
Walter van Beirendonck
Viktor& Rolf
Comme des Garçons (closed)

NATHANIEL VISSER
Calvin Klein (exclusive)
Mugler

Givenchy
Hermès
Thom Browne

STIRLING CAIULO
Givenchy
Ermenegildo Zegna
John Varvatos

JOEL MEACOCK
Calvin Klein (exclusive)

LANCE RAFTERY

Vivienne Westwood

ANDREJ PEJIC
Jean Paul Gaultier

REUBEN RAMACHER
Saint Laurent Paris (exclusive)

JAMES GATENBY
Louis Vuitton (exclusive - opened)

FRANKIE ELLIS-GALATI
Givenchy

NIC SMITH
Lou Dalton

JULIA NOBIS
Saint Laurent Paris 

photo gallery:

1/ nathaniel visser - mugler FW1314 via style.com
2/ elijah tyedmers - walter van beirendonck FW1314 via style.com
3/ kye d'arcy - katie eary FW1314 via wwd.com
2/ stirling cauilo - ermenegildo zegna FW1314 via style.com
4/ joel meacock - calvin klein FW1314 via style.com
5/ lance raftery - vivienne westwood FW1314 via style.com