About
Editorial & Street Style Model
Marcus Vale
I spent my late teens in a boxing gym in Bed-Stuy, and everything I know about this industry I learned there first: footwork, patience, and how to stay calm while someone studies you. A casting director spotted me at an amateur card in Brooklyn, and within a year I'd traded the ring for the studio - though I never really left either one.
My work lives between street style and editorial. Brands come to me when they want clothes to look lived-in rather than displayed - denim, workwear, technical pieces, knitwear with some weight to it. I know my angles, I move well on camera, and I hold direction without needing it repeated. Photographers tell me I shoot like I spar: relaxed until the exact moment it counts.
Outside of set hours I shoot 35mm film around the boroughs, coach Saturday youth sessions at my old gym, and dig for jazz and early hip-hop records that my apartment genuinely does not have room for. Routine keeps me sharp - same gym, same diner, same block. The city does the rest.
Spec Sheet
Height
6'1" / 185cm
Chest
39" / 99cm
Waist
31" / 79cm
Hips
37" / 94cm
Hair
Black
Eyes
Green
Shoes
UK 9.5 / EU 44