Simon Nessman
Biography
Simon Nessman (born November 6, 1989) is a Canadian model from Courtenay, British Columbia.
Nessman is best known as the current face of Giorgio Armani. In addition, he has been featured in ad campaigns for Versace, D&G, Givenchy, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent, Barneys, Gap, and John Galliano. He appeared in the 2012 music video of Madonna's new song, Girl Gone Wild, directed by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
He has walked in shows for Salvatore Ferragamo, Roberto Cavalli, Tommy Hilfiger, Emporio Armani, Viktor & Rolf, Lacoste, DSquared², Narciso Rodriguez, and Michael Kors and appeared in Vogue, Details, Numéro, V Man and L'Officiel Hommes.
He starred in the A/X Armani Exchange Spring 2011 advertising campaign with Clara Alonso, Alejandra Alonso, Marlon Teixeira, and Francisco Lachowski.
In 2012 Nessman became the face of the Giorgio Armani fragrance Acqua di Gio Essenza in an advertising campaign shot and directed by Bruce Weber. Nessman continued to feature in the 2014 print and video campaigns for the fragrance.
From late 2010 to 2014 Nessman starred in multiple print and film campaign advertisements for American fashion designer Michael Kors with Karmen Pedaru. He appeared alongside British supermodel and actress Cara Delevingne in the John Hardy Spring/Summer 2015 campaign, shot by Sebastian Faena in Bali.
In 2011, Nessman was ranked the second most successful male model in the world behind Sean O'Pry on the models.com list of the Top 50 international male models. In 2013, Forbes ranked Nessman third on The World's Highest-Paid Male Models list behind David Gandy and Sean O'Pry, second and first respectively.
In 2014, Nessman was nominated for a Model Of The Year award. As of 2015, Nessman was featured on Models.com's list of Sexiest Men, Top Icons Men, and The Money Guys. In 2019 Nessman was featured on Supers Men, the highest rank male model can attain on Models.com.