Evan Mock is the pink-haired skateboarder turned mannequin, actor and perennial cool child who’s at present brightening up your display as Aki Menzies, the sexually fluid, non-public faculty skater child, in HBO Max’s reboot of the much-loved 2000s traditional, Gossip Girl.Born in Oahu, Hawaii, the 24-year-old spent his youth outside, totally immersed within the island’s surf and skate scene. A rising star in his small circle, Mock was propelled into the highlight in 2019, after a video clip of him and his newly dyed pink hair discovered its approach on to Frank Ocean’s Instagram – a good friend had despatched it to the singer who had additionally just lately dyed his hair pink. Catching the attention of main trend homes, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Mock was strolling runways and fronting campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton. That identical yr, Mock launched his personal streetwear model, Sorry In Advance.And now? Fresh from the discharge of his first collaboration with surf clothes and way of life model RVCA, and at present starring in HBO Max’s most-hyped present, he’s exhibiting no indicators of slowing down. Here, he spares a second to talk to Vogue by way of Zoom about his relationship with magnificence, how he takes care of his pores and skin and the place he will get his confidence from.What was it like rising up in Hawaii?“I grew up on the north shore of Oahu, primarily across the seaside, so I used to be surrounded by browsing and every thing to do with the water. The individuals I grew up round formed me to be the individual I’m right this moment. It’s an island and there are restricted issues to do, so browsing was all the time an enormous factor. Being round the perfect surfers on the earth, the perfect water photographers, the perfect individuals making movies, all these issues – that made me all in favour of find out how to do every thing. They had been just about all older than me and had been forward of the sport, so I felt like I received to be taught from the perfect. And that each one translated into images and filmmaking.”Growing up, was there a time while you seemed within the mirror and didn’t like the way in which you seemed?“The solely time I bear in mind trying within the mirror and never liking what I noticed was once I moved to New York and immediately misplaced my tan.”
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