Look Book's Asian male model

I understand that New York mag's "The Look Book" section features a fashionable and/or funky-looking New Yorker in each issue (correct me if I'm wrong). The current Look Book guy, "Joshua Ku, Student and Model" is getting a bit of attention in places like Gawker. He is a model? And he's the most unhappy- and unhealthy-looking Asian male model I've ever seen.