Marcus Schenkenberg was born on August 4, 1968, in Stockholm, Sweden. As a lanky, dark-haired teenager he was a basketball fanatic and dreamed of joining the NBA. Ten years later, at the age of twenty-four, he was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People on the planet by People Magazine.

Discovered while rollerskating on Venice Beach by photographer Bill King in 1989, he is the first male model ever to grace a magazine cover — Harper's Bazaar. Since then he has been featured on more covers and appeared in more magazines and been shot by more lensmen than any other male fashion model in the history of the industry.

Even a partial list of his photographers reads like a pantheon of the greatest photographic artists of our time — Richard Avedon, Francesco Scavullo, Karl Lagerfeld, Tyen, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, David LaChapelle, Guzman and Arnaldo Anaya Lucca, among others too numerous to name here. And the reason why is readily apparent — as Scavullo once quipped: "You just have to look at him, he's fabulous. He's got a fabulous body, face, and attitude."*