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What is about the 21-year-old, 6’1”, Akihiro “Aki” Sato, the half-Japanese, half-Brazilian model that is driving our local fashion industry gaga? Even his manager Jonas Gaffud of Mercator Modeling agency wanted to know. His looks apparently translate well with both the “class A to D market.” Surfer body and mestizo good looks aside what makes him stand out from the other half-breed hunks in town? Taking apart Aki’s looks from his great smile that reaches all the way to his eyes, his perfectly proportioned features, his killer cheekbones, his 31-inch waist and washboard abs one can’t deny he is one ideal specimen; but in this industry, looks are 90 percent of the package to make it big you’ll need your own signature “blue steel” look (the model’s signature look as per Stiller’s “Zoolander”).
Aki’s reputation as a phenom in Thailand and his record-setting first few months in the Philippines was tested by SIM by shooting him “au naturelle” sans stylist, make-up, lighting or famous fashion photographer (sorry Mike). It was a humid summer day, he wore his own clothes and we gave him minimal to no direction for the shots. He composed his own body and features and gave our photographer shot after shot to use. At the end of the shoot he left us two impressions: in front of the camera, he was a professional a new star steadily on the rise with an amazing relationship with the camera. His ease and rapport with the lens is so strong you almost have to turn away from its intensity. “He registers well on camera,” said Mike Alquinto our photographer.
Aki’s reputation as a phenom in Thailand and his record-setting first few months in the Philippines was tested by SIM by shooting him “au naturelle” sans stylist, make-up, lighting or famous fashion photographer (sorry Mike). It was a humid summer day, he wore his own clothes and we gave him minimal to no direction for the shots. He composed his own body and features and gave our photographer shot after shot to use. At the end of the shoot he left us two impressions: in front of the camera, he was a professional a new star steadily on the rise with an amazing relationship with the camera. His ease and rapport with the lens is so strong you almost have to turn away from its intensity. “He registers well on camera,” said Mike Alquinto our photographer.
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