MODEL THOUGHTS
THOMAS PENFOUND
By Harrison Elkins
Photographed by Hanuk
Harrison Elkins: If you were a shirt, what color would you be and why?
Thomas Penfound: Definitely a button down. Some sort of black and grey print.
Something very smart.
HE: Who would win in a battle between a pirate and a ninja?
TP: Ninja definitely. He’s the trained one where the pirate has just too much stuff
on his belt. He’d fuck it up for sure.
HE: What do you think the best thing before sliced bread was?
TP: Probably bagels. I’m not sure if they came before, but when it comes to food shapes,
circles always conquer squares. Hence a New York bagel.
HE: How often do you wash your hair?
TP: As little as I can. I don’t know…it depends. If I’m doing shows and
there’s a ton of crap in it, as there usually is, then I have to
wash it an insane amount of times. After the first show I did in New York
this season my hair was greased up like crazy. My flatmates and I
who were also in the show had to wash our hair literally ten times
before the goop came out. But usually I hardly touch it.
HE: When are you at your happiest?
TP: When I’m being creative and in the zone. I went to college for design and
art direction so anything related to that. I like to dabble in a lot of
different creative things so being able to have as much variety as possible is a great feeling.
HE: What scares you?
TP: Insanity! Losing your mind can be pretty scary I think.
But, I suppose it could be pretty fun as well. Did I fuck up the question?
HE: What’s your biggest vice?
TP: I tried to cut most of them out but I’m just trying to get rid of the cigarettes now.
HE: What’s your guilty pleasure?
TP: Staying in bed all day hungover and ordering chinese!
HE: Is that today?
TP: No, it was a couple of days ago though!
HE: Do you have a funny fashion week story?
TE: Let me think. Sure. It’s always a laugh when the rappers come back stage in Paris.
One time I was doing a show for Gareth Pugh and then all these rappers
came backstage. It’s just weird seeing Gareth who’s very typically English then
P. Diddy comes back and he’s like, “oh yeah, I loved the show man”,
(laughs) like, I don’t know, it’s kind of surreal and I was just wondering if he
really did enjoy the show or not. I just can’t imagine him wearing any of those clothes!
Anyway, that was pretty funny.
HE: What did you do this summer?
TP: Quite a lot. I’ve been in New York for two months and near the start
me and my girlfriend when to loads of concerts in Central Park and
a couple of friends came out from England. We were basically doing something
every single day. Mainly tourist b.s. But its fun when you’re in new surroundings.
HE: What would you do if you only had five dollars? What do you spend it on?…
or ten dollars, this IS New York.
TP: Buy a packet of crisps, or chips as you would say.
Then you ration them out and you buy a drink as well. But it needs to be a
bottled drink not a canned one, cause once you open the can then
you’ve lost it. You need the bottled one so you can go back to it and savor every swig.
Those are my top rationing tips.
HE: What’s your favorite food?
TP: It depends what mood I’m in really. If I’m hung over I crave chinese food,
something like that. But then lately I’ve been eating quite a lot of steaks
while I’ve been out here though. I’m looking forward to going to back to England a
nd getting some good ol’ English cuisine.
HE: What’s the first thing you’re going to do when you get back to London?
TP: Get a proper fish and chips. And then I’ll sleep.
Model: Thomas Penfound at D1
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