 Click to View Photos of Tim Boyce | Tim Boyce is an American fashion and fitness model regarded as a male supermodel of the 1990s.
Boyce has worked with photographers Peter Lindbergh and Bettina Rheims in advertising campaigns for high fashion designers such as Giorgio Armani, Gianfranco Ferre and brands such as Levi's. He appeared on the covers of Arena Homme + and L'Uomo Vogue alongside a new generation of top male models of the 1990s, including Marcus Schenkenberg and Tyson Beckford, who attained celebrity status in the global fashion, movie, music, and media markets.
In 1995, Out Magazine featured Boyce on its cover, photographed by Guy Aroch. The Out Magazine cover story lead the Los Angeles Times to single out Boyce and other notable figures such as Gore Vidal and Candace Gingrich as out leaders contributing to the increasingly vibrant market of the gay press that was notable for changing the landscape of mainstream media in the 1990s.
Boyce was born in San Francisco, California of Italian and Irish ancestry. He moved to New York City, excelling in high school track and field, baseball and other sports before graduating from NYU with a degree in Communication Sciences in 1991.
In 1993, Boyce was photographed by Steven Meisel on the October issue of L’Uomo Vogue with a style team that included Garren and Lori Goldstein. Boyce continued working in the fashion editorial pages of such magazines as British GQ, Interview, New York Times Magazine, Arena, Vogue Hommes, Details, and Italian Vogue as well as on the runway in fashion shows for Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Issey Miyake, Gianfranco Ferre, and Donna Karan.
In the midst of his career, Boyce was featured on the October 1995 cover of Out with the headline: “Gay Model - Hanging Out with Supermodel Tim Boyce.†The cover was accompanied by an article titled, “‘This Model's Life...24 hours on the trail of male supermodel Tim Boyce†which covered aspects of Boyce's career, romantic life, and fitness regimen set against the streets of New York City. The article, which also charted the course of the male modeling industry from the 1970s, noted that another gay male model pulled out of being included in the article despite recent advancements made by female gay and bisexual models such as Jenny Shimizu, Rachel Williams and Patricia Velasquez who made it safer to come out with less risk to their careers.Full name: Tim Boyce Born: June 9, 1968Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA |
