Seijo Imazaki: The Quiet Castle

By Sean Bickerton | December 11, 2002Email Article
Part of a new generation of highly successful Asian-American models, Seijo was signed his very first day to shoot a Versace Versus campaign with Bruce Weber. A short year later he was featured on the cover of L'Uomo Vogue. Since then Seijo, just 22 today, has been photographed by Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Michelangelo di Batista and Steven Klein among other great photographers. And to give a sense of his versatility, he's been featured in major campaigns for Versace, Armani Exchange, Joseph Abboud, Levi's and Alfred Dunhill among other brands.

A lean 6'1", he has a compelling look that varies wildly in his photographs from schoolboy naif to prep to bad-boy rocker to Latino matinee idol to very edgy hip-hop. And hip-hop is near to his heart, as is the name of his new music production company "Imazaki Ink" which is tattooed across his back. Other tattoos on his bicep and back include his brother's name, the date of his birth, a Tibetan symbol for reincarnation, and a dragon with the Japanese symbol for 'Magnificent Soldier'.

Seijo's father was Japanese, born in Kyoto the night of the bombing of Hiroshima. After finishing law school in Japan his father went on to attend university in Minnesota, where he met Seijo's Swedish-American mother. Together they settled in Westchester, NY, where Seijo was born. Tragically, Seijo lost his mother at the age of ten and his father at the age of seventeen, not long before he started modeling.

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