Fleeting Dream

'I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.'

Derek Zoolander

Back in the 80's, there weren't really any male supermodels.  The industry celebrated the female supermodel with Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista getting most of the attention, the work and the cash.  As the 90's rolled on however, men decided they wanted their own piece of the pie.   It was then that men like Tyson Beckford, Marcus Schenkenberg and Mark Vanderloo also began getting attention.

Kleckner

Men weren't just looking for parity with booking jobs and pay, they wanted the attention of media as well.  In the early 90's, models Mark Kleckner and John Nies were booked and busy.  Both were doing underwear and fitness shoots and were part of many campaigns inside the pages of magazines.  They wanted more however, which is why Mark started the Dream Team.

Nies

'A lot of the female supermodels were selling calendars and merchandising their images and I thought, Why am I doing this for other people when I could be doing it for myself'

Mark Kleckner

Kleckner

Given one hot male model was struggling to get attention, Mark wondered if putting 5 hot male models together might increase all of their chance of success.  So... he put together a group of guys who he and his team thought represented the best that the modeling world had to offer.  They held a casting call, seeing over 1000 hopeful male models. 

Nies


'Of course they had to be physically fit, appealing, good-looking –but guys like that are a dime a dozen.. Every supermodel out there has that. These guys had to have something else going for them: They had to be very intelligent and have other interests in their lives. They had to be outgoing and well spoken, because we make a lot of personal appearances and need to be able to address a great many topic'.

Kleckner

I've posted about the 'Dream Team' before, but after seeing a post earlier this year on Hunks in Speeos, one of my favorite sites to check out, I decided a follow-up was in order.  I'm sure many of you know both Kleckner, and fellow dream teamer John Nies, have posed nude, Nies before joining the Dream Team, Kleckner as part of the groups promotion.  Sadly, the dream was fleeting, and although they did managed to gain plenty of attention, it was very short lived.  Check out some of the attention they garnered on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

Nies & Kleckner for Undergear