The breakout star of the mockumentary series Model Files is the funniest thing in fashion right now.
Preston takes a selfie.
Preston Chaunsumlit was arrested recently for loitering near his apartment in Bushwick. Due to the weekend and some lost paperwork, he was kept locked up in Manhattan's Central Booking for four days. (The case was eventually dismissed.) "Being booked in the model world is awesome," he explains. "But being booked in, like, criminal world is awful. But there's really great street casting in jail. I'm serious. Everyone's, like, really symmetrical. Everyone was dark-skinned; it was very Givenchy."
It's this kind of dark humor that makes Preston the perfect anti-hero on Model Files, a mockumentary web series about his life as a model casting director. In the show, Preston is lazy, mean to his assistants, clueless about how others perceive him, and has a phobia of revealing his feet without shoes. In reality, Preston is a model casting director, but hardworking and kind. The socks thing is real, however.
Preston (the character) is just the way we like our reality stars: one-third loathable, one-third lovable, and one-third completely self-unaware. The first season features idiosyncratic fashion situations, such as casting for baby models; the second season focuses on Preston's downward spiral with his frenemies R.J. King and Cole Mohr, both top male models. An artistic decision was made to flesh out the characters of R.J. and Cole for Season 2 because there's just something funnier about male models.
The second-to-last episode this season, where Preston gets his job casting for a fashion show back after being fired for drinking on the job.
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Preston looks over Ukrainian model Cate Underwood's portfolio in the VFiles office.