Tyson Beckford

Tyson Beckford is an American model and actor best known for modeling Ralph Lauren’s Polo line and becoming one of the most recognizable male fashion models of the 1990s.

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Ralph Lauren: An American fashion designer and business executive who founded the company that bears his name. Beckford became a signature face of Lauren’s Polo menswear campaigns.
Bronx: A borough of New York City, located north of Manhattan. Beckford was born in the Bronx and grew up partly in Jamaica.
Male model: A man who models clothing, accessories, or products for commercial or artistic presentation. Beckford helped raise the visibility of male models in mainstream fashion advertising.
Male supermodel: A male fashion model with exceptional international recognition and celebrity status. Beckford became one of the few men widely described by this label.
Herb Ritts: An American photographer and director known for fashion, portrait, and celebrity photography. Ritts photographed Beckford in the fashion imagery that helped define his public profile.
Jamaica: An island country in the Caribbean Sea and a member of the Commonwealth. Beckford spent part of his childhood in Jamaica before returning to New York.
Fashion photography: Photography devoted to displaying clothing, accessories, and fashion aesthetics. Campaign images made Beckford’s modeling work widely recognizable.
Fashion advertising: The promotion of clothing and fashion brands through paid media and campaigns. His Polo work shows how a recurring model can become closely identified with a brand.
Naomi Campbell: A British fashion model who rose to international prominence in the late twentieth century. Campbell and Beckford became prominent figures in the same era of fashion modeling.
The Source: An American hip-hop magazine founded in 1988. A talent scout discovered Beckford after he appeared in this magazine.