Canadian beauty Gaby Ouellet is featured on WWD’s Model Call. Mother agent Chantale Nadeau’s efforts to develop Quebecois models seem to be fruitful so far. In-demand catwalker Sophie Touchet is also managed by Nadeau.<\/p>\n
Here are our highlights:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so funny because I\u2019m the only one in my family with these eyes,\u201d said Gabrielle Ouellet on a recent afternoon at WWD\u2019s office. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you can see it \u2014 it\u2019s my crazy thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
At 5-foot, 8-and-a-half inches, Ouellet lands on the shorter side of runway height parameters, but she still managed to walk two shows in Montreal and Toronto for fall, and has been gaining editorial ground with shoots in Oyster, Creem, Factice, Dress to Kill, Veoir and Novembre magazines. She is currently stationed in New York for two months, living in a model apartment in the East Village.<\/p>\n
WWD: So how did you start modeling?
\nGabrielle Ouellet: I was scouted by a girl on Facebook. She referred me to my mother agent, Chantale Nadeau in Canada. It\u2019s so funny because I was baby-sitting at this time. I saw a message on Facebook, and it was like, \u201cHi, how tall are you?\u201d I was like, \u201cWhat the hell is that?\u201d And then I became a model, not knowing anything about modeling except what I saw on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model.\u201d I was 16.<\/p>\n
WWD: What did your Facebook profile photo look like?
\nG.O.: It\u2019s so funny, it happened to be a picture of my face without smiling. When I took this picture, [my friend and I] did a fun photo shoot on my street and my friend said, \u201cGabby, for the first time, don\u2019t smile.\u201d I was like, \u201cWhat? No smiling? I can\u2019t be beautiful without smiling!\u201d I was always smiling in pictures. But I took this one [serious] picture and then I became a model from it. I really learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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