Alex Dunstan

Alex Dunstan is a British model and the founder of Alexander Does Supper, a food and events venture rooted in south London. His modeling career developed across luxury fragrance advertising and English tailoring, with Lanvin and Burberry becoming important early associations.

In a 2012 interview with Wonderland, Alex recalled being approached at London Bridge when he was sixteen or seventeen. He initially mistook the scout’s compliment for a chat-up line; she found him again a few months later and signed him. Before modeling, he had been studying sciences at college, with an interest in biochemistry and toxicology.

The interview revealed interests beyond the fashion circuit, including taekwondo and the Chinatown restaurants he had visited since childhood. Travel brought its own education, particularly during several months in Tokyo, where he encountered the greatest cultural difference he had experienced. His enthusiasm for clothes was personal, too. He singled out James Long’s jackets and wore the designer’s pieces himself.

By 2009, Alex was appearing in Dazed & Confused Japan. His fall 2010 Lanvin campaign established a significant luxury connection, followed by the house’s Avant Garde fragrance advertising in 2012. The move from collection imagery to a fragrance campaign gave his face a role beyond the seasonal wardrobe, representing a broader idea of the Lanvin man.

Burberry supplied another major chapter. Alex joined its spring-summer 2013 advertising, including the eyewear campaign, and modeled the season’s Burberry Brit collection. Those bookings developed alongside magazine work for publications including Numéro Homme and GQ, linking his commercial career with the editorial world in which he had first appeared.

British tailoring became a continuing part of that story. Alex fronted Gieves & Hawkes’ fall 2017 campaign, photographed at Goodwood House and its motor circuit. The Savile Row setting of his career sat comfortably alongside the independent London design he had admired earlier, giving him a place in both the experimental and established sides of British menswear.

Food became another professional direction after the pandemic lockdown. Alex founded Alexander Does Supper as a south London supper club, drawing on a fascination that began with childhood memories of watching his father cook. Sharing a meal interested him as a way to bring people together again.

The project developed into evenings combining dinner with life drawing and live music, in collaboration with a local art school, alongside private parties and event catering. His role expanded from appearing in a creative production to hosting one, with the shared experience around the table as its focus.