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About

Portrait

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

Spec Sheet

[01]

Height

6'1" / 185cm

[02]

Chest

39" / 99cm

[03]

Waist

31" / 79cm

[04]

Hips

37" / 94cm

[05]

Hair

Black

[06]

Eyes

Green

[07]

Shoes

UK 9.5 / EU 44

Record

Service Record

001 2026
Workwear Campaign — Carhartt WIP
[Campaign]
002 2026
Street Style Feature — Highsnobiety
[Editorial]
003 2025
Skate Lookbook — Nike SB
[Lookbook]
004 2025
Autumn Drop — Stüssy
[Campaign]
005 2025
SS25 Presentation — Aimé Leon Dore
[Runway]
006 2025
Boots Commercial — Dr. Martens
[Commercial]
007 2025
Style Profile — Complex
[Editorial]
008 2024
Denim Campaign — Levi's
[Campaign]
009 2024
Summer Lookbook — Urban Outfitters
[Lookbook]
010 2024
Classics Range — Vans
[Commercial]
All demos