In the current issue of CITY, I interviewed David Lindwall. Check it out!

When your first job is modeling for Dior Homme under the famed rule of Hedi Slimane, you'd think it'd be all downhill from there; but not so for Swedish model and survivor of boredom David Lindwall.

A model who while walking in the Dior Homme runway shows was overcome with a brief but real sensation of being a rock, Lindwall's roots are about as humble as they come; having grown up in a simple house among only 12 other houses with a road leading through the middle of the woods.

Never one to sit idle, Lindwall is currently juggling several projects at once: designing a new collection for his eponymous men's clothing line, working on a book, taking his thoughts and putting paintbrush to canvas, and starring in a Ju$t Another Rich Kid directed video entitled He's lost control again., which will drop this spring with a group of other videos produced by Cooperwind Studios in Williamsburg for the relaunch of the original 1961 K-Swiss trainer.

David took a few minutes out of his uber busy schedule to sit down and let me pepper him with questions.

· What'd you want to be when you were a kid?
I wanted to be a professor, that's when I was very young and watched "Professor Balthazar".

· Who has influenced you most in life? Career?
Who: for a start I have to say my parents, the most supportive and none pressured parents (they're not hippies). Very understanding people. They laid the bricks. What: books. When I read Kafka for the first time, it completely blew my mind.

· Was your first job modeling for Dior Homme? Tell me how that came about.
Dior was my second job. I did an amazing Raf Simons shoot for i-D first. I was living in London and had a casting for someone named Hedi Slimane -- at the time I knew nothing of fashion so I didn't think too much about it. There was a massive cue, so I waited for a long time. I came in looking like a bum in my ripped skintight dirt-white acne jeans, Sid and Nancy t-shirt, cheap smelly polyester parka that I bought at Spiterfields market the week before for 30 quid, and soaking wet ripped Converse. I met Mister Slimane and we started talking. I think he liked the teenage angst that lived inside of me at the time and the whole anti-model approach. He is a very cleaver man. He took a couple of rolls of film and we had a chat and I met his assistant Kris and then I left. By the time I hit the street again, I got call from a slightly hysterical booker saying that they wanted me exclusively for the show in Paris.

· Best part of being involved in Dior Homme? It was really a very special moment in men's fashion.
Everyone, including me, believed in it. It was such a true feeling inside of everyone that this was the greatest brand in the world and on that catwalk you were a fucking rock star. The music was so true to the vision of the brand. It was all very exciting. It was doing the fittings for the whole collections: spending days with Hedi in the studio trying on every suit, jacket, coat, shirt, and knit that was made. Styling all the looks and just hanging out in the office with the same monotone soundtrack on repeat all day and night long. It was hypnotic in the end.

· One thing I think is great about you is that you have your own sense of personal style. A lot of male models can't dress themselves off the runway. Was your style influenced by DH?
I can't say my style was influenced by Dior. I wore tight second hand women's blazers with skinny jeans, but I feel like that style emerged and evolved for me with Dior. I could see myself wearing a coat instead of my beaten up leather jacket. Also my body was always so weird and long so I always had to alter my clothes. (My mum got bored of all sewing!) That gave me a chance to change proportions on the clothes I wore. For example, I've always loved long sleeves on things cause I could never find any garment that covered hands growing up. Also, I had a friend who was a stylist and he showed me a lot of Raf Simons very first collections. It is a good question..........how do you get a good dress sense? I think it's a lot of trial and error and never be scared to be stared at. Also pay attention to everything, everything counts, a good outfit with bad socks - GAME OVER.

· Current projects?
Right now I'm working on my new collection for my own brand (www.davidlindwall.com). After working as senior designer at a big house in Europe, it's amazing to do something that my belief and 100% trust is in. Also working on a couple of painting/installation/thing, it's a lot of darkness.

· This is where you get to say whatever you want. Anything. Really.
Oh yeah I'm working on a book right now based on my 200 day stay in hospital. I was 5 min from dying on the operation table got 200 stitches on my tummy. There's a 5 hour film of the operation I think it's looking pretty interesting that will accompany the book. I wrote a lot of things in that small grey painted room and I had a little camera, with which I managed to capture some pretty amazing pictures.......so if you know a publicist........