Editing Laird Hamilton (section)

===Modeling===
When he was 16, Hamilton left the eleventh grade at [[Kapaa High School]] to pursue a modeling career and work in construction.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://juicemagazine.com/home/laird-hamilton/ | title=Laird Hamilton | date=February 2004 }}</ref> At 17,  Hamilton was discovered on a beach in Kaua{{okina}}i by a photographer from the Italian ''[[Men's Vogue]]'' magazine ''[[L'Uomo Vogue]]'' which landed him a modeling contract and later a 1983 photo shoot with the actress [[Brooke Shields]].<ref name="stahl">{{Cite news |author= [[Lesley Stahl]], Rebecca Leung |title = Surf's Up!: Lesley Stahl Talks To Big-Wave Surfer Laird Hamilton |work = [[60 Minutes]] |publisher = [[CBS News]] |date = July 25, 2004  |url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/surfs-up-26-02-2004/ |access-date = December 2, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="mahalo.com">[http://www.mahalo.com/laird-hamilton Laird Hamilton Profiles and Biographies Mahalo.com]</ref>  Hamilton continued to do occasional men's action sportswear print modeling.

In 2008 Hamilton announced his own "Wonderwall" line of affordable clothing, sold through [[Steve & Barry's]]<ref>{{cite news |title= Surfing star Hamilton makes cool gear affordable |newspaper= [[USA Today]] |date= May 15, 2008 |url= https://www.usatoday.com/sports/2008-05-15-hamilton-line_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip |access-date= December 1, 2010 |first=Sal |last=Ruibal}}</ref> until that retailer shut down at the end of January 2009.
He has had long-time sponsorship from the French beachwear company [[Oxbow (surfwear)|Oxbow]] surfwear.<ref>{{cite web |title= Riders |publisher= [[Oxbow (surfwear)|Oxbow]] surfwear |url= http://www.oxboworld.com/riders/en |access-date= December 1, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090722143753/http://www.oxboworld.com/riders/en |archive-date= July 22, 2009 |url-status= dead }}</ref>