What came next for you?

After Out, I shot Arena Homme Plus with Mattias Vriens. That was a lot of fun. He knew exactly what he's looking for. One thing, though — he always uses these boxes he has. You'd think he'd be sitting up in a nice chair or something, but he's sitting on a busted, falling-apart, cracked, splintered wooden box. I don't know where he found those boxes, or why he doesn't fix them but he uses the same ones every time.

What was the story?

There was a different model selected for each designer's clothes for the collections, and I got to represent Giorgio Armani. It's probably the first time I ever wore a suit in my life. It was really high fashion — I didn't have anything else on, just the jacket and the pants. I'm more used to just wearing urban wear so it was a good change and a great addition to my book.

Did you see yourself differently after you looked at those images?

Not really, but as soon as I got it I called Jason. I was all excited and he was like 'get a whole bunch of them' so I got a stack of them. He was really excited because the first four models were all from Major — John, Tony, Ryan and myself — and we all got great tears out of it. Then, two weeks later I shot Men's Journal with Aaron Goodman. The story was 'How to Add 10 Years Onto Your Life.' Then in July, I shot for Männer and got the cover.

That's great Joseph. Nobody gets covers anymore. Especially men.

Yeah, I've been lucky. I was supposed to get the cover of Out Magazine too, but they decided to go with a celebrity instead. But I did get the Table of Contents. (laughs) Then in September I met up with Steven Klein and he put me on option for DSquared. I got to do that shoot with my room-mate and best friend Tony D'Angelo, so that was a real fun experience. I'm used to photographers shooting at a fast pace, randomly trying to catch the good moments. But Steven is very artistic and he really gets into it, drawing everything out first on a storyboard.

What was the theme?

Backyard wrestling. And the entire night before, Gabe & Steve were up all night watching 'Backyard Wrestling' to prepare. You could see the shadows under their eyes the next day. But as soon as they arrived at the shoot they knew exactly what they were looking for. It was very deliberate and kind of slow. He took his time getting everything set up, and he took a lot of Polaroids to make sure everything was perfect first. Then he'd shoot a few rolls of film. But he really didn't have to use much film because he already knew exactly what he was going for.