The ’90s taste for resplendent sensuality led to the rise of dramatically handsome faces like Cameron Alborzian and Tyson Beckford. The Me Decade found its match in the streamlined look of Jeff Aquilon, while John Pearson became the face of ’80s-era decadence. Serving both as aspirational body ideals and arbiters of cool, male models provide a visual representation of fashion’s (and the world at large’s) ideas about masculinity.
While most lack the name recognition, not to mention the cachet, of their female counterparts, modeling’s men are an important part of the pop culture conversation.
