Jon Passavant

Biography

Jon Passavant is the Renaissance man nowadays in the fashion industry; his classic good looks with a touch of modern cowboy are the most popular subjects of countless designers and fashion houses. Thanks to the worldwide distributed campaigns ads of Giorgio Armani, Andrew Marc, Intuition by Estée Lauder and Guess, Jon is one of the a few American models that stood out in the new millennium and is becoming one of the more familiar faces to the public.

Jon has always offered the best of him through every ad campaign, catalog, editorial and runway show that he was engaged in; however the recognition for his achievement did not come easily. Once regarded as one of the most under-rated models, it took Jon two years to finally break into the main stream modeling business. If you could open your eyes, you would see that Jon's glamour is contagious and versatile: from a gentleman in Giorgio Armani to a bad boy in Andrew Marc, to the subject of romance in Guess. He is red hot.

According to Jon, he was a skinny kid with braces and glasses in the younger years. But that didn't stop him from growing into a real man, especially after all the butt-kicking on the football field since high school. The tough mentality of being an athlete had aspired Jon to be in the military as a career option.

Jon's modeling career started in 1999 while he was still in college. After being a part-time model and part-time student for two years, Jon finally graduated from college with a degree in business communications and was ready to take on all the challenges in the world of fashion.

This Pittsburgh native says that he owes his success to his parents. After all it was his proud mom who persuaded him to get into modeling. She says, "As long as the doors were open he wanted to walk through it, then we were in support of it."

Now, being the face of Estee Lauder's new fragrance, Intuition for men, Jon is constantly on the promotion tour around the world, and gets celebrity treatment wherever he goes. Jon admits, "Women love it." Just check out the ladies in line waiting as Jon spent the day at Bloomingdale's in New York taking pictures and signing autographs. To no one's surprise, Cosmo named him one of the world's top five male models.