Frida is featured in the January 28th issue of Dagens Industri, the biggest financial newspaper in Sweden. She talks about her life before modeling, her career dreams and much more. Please note: The following article has been translated into English using google translation.
She is tall, sleek and slim. Frida Gustavsson is a model guess probably most people who see her as we enter at Berns in Stockholm – the home of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – to do this interview. But what makes the play she has become one of the world’s most popular models in recent years, she did not answer.
“I was never the prettiest girl in class. But I do have a look that works on image and on the catwalk.”
As a young Frida Gustavsson bet on athletics. She was promising häcklöperska, trained five times a week and won a number of SM in the relay with his club Bromma IF.
“I grew up in a sports family. My father was a handball goalkeeper and both my brothers athletes great. But when I was 14 I fell unhappily in a stern race and broke his femur and both arms. It would mean a year of rehab training to come back and it Pallade I do not. So then I put off. ”
Another elite career loomed. Frida Gustavsson was only twelve years old when a man from a modeling agency came up to her first time and asked if she wanted to try your luck as a model.
“I was at Ikea with my dad. Then I thought just that it was scary and we said no,” she says.
Two years later, the age of 14, she was again approcherad by a model scout from the Stockholm group.
“The time I went shopping in Hennes & Mauritz. Then I was more receptive. I had stumbled into fashion and would just start studying fashion and design in high school. But with the Stockholm group we decided that I should wait to begin modeling until I turned 15, “she says.
Model career began with a femveckorsvistelse in Japan.
“It was a good way to start. I went there on summer vacation and earned good money. In Japan, they are very caring and organized. Every girl living in a hotel and you will be picked up by private chauffeur who drives one to the shoot are. ”
A year later, just turned 16 years old, was Frida Gustavsson her big break when she opened Valentino’s show at haute couture week in Paris in autumn 2009. This led to a shoot for Italian Vogue, and then exploded it. The following season was Frida Gustavsson one of the most requested models in the fashion houses views during fashion week in Paris, Milan, London and New York.
