Tim Boyce Explained

Tim Boyce
Birth Name:Timothy Shane Boyce
Birth Date:9 July 1968
Birth Place:San Francisco, California, USA
Haircolour:Brown
Eyecolour:Brown
Occupation:Model
Yearsactive:1993–present

Timothy Shane Boyce is an American fashion and fitness model regarded as a male supermodel of the 1990s.[1]

Boyce has worked with photographers Peter Lindbergh and Bettina Rheims in advertising campaigns for high fashion designers such as Giorgio Armani,[2] Gianfranco Ferre[3] and brands such as Levi's.[4] He appeared on the covers of Arena Homme +[5] and L'Uomo Vogue[6] 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.[7]

In 1995, Out Magazine featured Boyce on its cover, photographed by Guy Aroch.[8] 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.[9]

Early life

Boyce was born in San Francisco, California of Italian and Irish ancestry.[10] 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.[11] [12]

Career

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.[13] Boyce continued working in the fashion editorial pages of such magazines as British GQ,[14] Interview,[15] New York Times Magazine,[16] 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.[17]

In 1994, for the Autumn/Winter issue of Arena Homme +, a spin-off of the bi-monthly Arena, Boyce was photographed by master fashion photographer Albert Watson for the cover with four other top male models of the era, including Tyson Beckford and Marcus Schenkenberg.[18] The two-page fold-out cover included the headline “High Five the New Supermodel Army - Tyson, Tim, Marcus, Gregg and Larry photographed by Albert Watson” and a quote by Boyce: “If I was a female supermodel I'd be Kate Moss – so I could be cute and tiny instead of big and ugly.”[19] The magazine celebrated the five men,[20] foretold their pop-cultural notoriety,[21] and with Boyce's words quoted as a headline on the cover, signaled a skill that he would demonstrate later in life as a writer.[22] [23] The accompanying profile on Boyce stated that he had been modeling for just 18 months, was represented by Ford Models and Select Model Management, and included details on how he was discovered by fashion consultant Wayne Scot Lukas in New York where he attended NYU.[24] Lukas asked Boyce to test for a Levi's commercial which launched his career.[25] On the following pages, he is featured in ads for Gianfranco Ferre photographed by Bettina Rheims, Giorgio Armani Occhiali photographed by Peter Lindbergh, and in a fashion editorial photographed by Stephane Sednaoui with grooming by Michael Boadi.[26]

For the September 1996 issue of Interview, Boyce conducted a one-on-one interview with rock singer Pat Benatar, discussing the origins and legacy of her MTV era rock and roll image.[27] Boyce joined Molly Haskell who interviewed Jeanne Moreau, Danny Glover who interviewed Harry Belafonte, and Mark Marvel who interviewed Joan Didion as a contributing writer of the magazine.[28]

Out Magazine Cover (1995)

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.”[29] The cover was accompanied by an article titled, “‘This Model's Life...24 hours on the trail of male supermodel Tim Boyce”[30] which covered aspects of Boyce's career, romantic life, and fitness regimen set against the streets of New York City.[31] 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.[32]

Three years after Boyce's public disclosure in Out Magazine, the nation's leading gay and lesbian media platform,[33] he was mentioned in a 1998 article of another leading gay publication, The Advocate, that called out the fashion world for still not being a safe place for a gay model to come out and that being publicly gay was not perceived as an option.[34] [35] In 2018, the reluctance of male models to come out remained an issue among fashion industry leaders, when the editor of British Vogue, Edward Enninful, explained that the Hollywood ideal of the “perfect man” prevented many gay male models from discussing their sexual preferences, that doing so may hinder their careers.[36] “It's like...this old notion of what it meant to be a man and that this perfect man couldn't be gay. We know that's wrong,” Enninful said, adding that more models are beginning to feel comfortable coming out, a sign that the fashion industry is progressing in a positive way.[37]

Notes and References

  1. News: Lacey . Hester . Why Paul and Tim Won't Ever be Kate and Naomi . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-paul-and-tim-wont-ever-be-kate-and-naomi-1271827.html . May 7, 2022 . subscription . live . 12 May 2020 . Independent . INDEPENDENT DIGITAL NEWS AND MEDIA LIMITED . March 9, 1997 . Greg Spaulding, Tim Boyce and Larry Scott. Bruce Hulse, John Pearson and Scott Maslen. Heard of them but not quite heard of them?......In fact, they have all been touted as "male supermodels" over the past few years..
  2. Web site: GIORGIO ARMANI I FALL/WINTER 1994 . UOMOCLASSICO.COM I 2014 . 12 May 2020 . Model(s): Tim Boyce and Laetitia Herrera.
  3. Web site: GIANFRANCO FERRE I FALL/WINTER 1994 . www.UomoClassico.com . Uomo Classico . 11 May 2020 . Model(s): Tim Boyce and male models.
  4. Siman . Ken . This Model's Life . Out - America's Best Selling Gay and Lesbian Magazine . October 1995 . 26 . 68 . “One day, Tim was walking out of the World Gym, a pedestrian Wayne Scot Lukas approached him and said, ‘You should be a Levi’s model,’...Sure enough, the guy lined up the Levi's test shoot...Tim's been modeling ever since.".
  5. Web site: Arena Homme + . Magazine Canteen . 12 May 2020 . Cover of male supermodels of the time - Marcus Shenkenberg, Tyson Beckford, Gregg Spaulding, Tim Boyce, Larry Scott.
  6. Web site: L'Uomo Vogue, October 1993 . The Fashion Spot . TotallyHer Media, LLC, an Evolve Media LLC company . 12 May 2020 . L'Uomo Vogue cover "The New Breed" photographed by Steven Meisel.
  7. Worthington . Christa . Time for the men to try it: Are these the new supermodels? Can they achieve parity with their female counterparts? Yes, if men's magazines have anything to do with it. Christa Worthington reports from New York . Independent . September 4, 1994 . Culture/Fashion . 12 May 2020 . "ON THE count of three, give me attitude,' says the photographer Albert Watson to the five best-looking guys in the world...It's taking time for male supermodels - though they're gaining every year - to achieve the earning power of their female counterparts...These five - Marcus Schenkenberg, Tim Boyce, Tyson, Greg Spaulding and Larry Scott - appear later this month on the cover of Hommes Plus, Arena's bi-annual fashion supplement....
  8. Siman . Ken . Gay Model - Hanging Out with Supermodel Tim Boyce . Out Magazine . October 1995 . 26 . Fall Fashion Issue . 66–135 . “Tim is being chronicled because as a Six-figure Wilhemina model, easily recognizable from Armani ads, Details, and the male supermodel cover of Arena, people he has never met gossip and daydream about him.”.
  9. News: Hanania . Joseph . Closeted No Longer : Magazines: Increasing ad revenues, mainstream media interest and attractive demographics have made an increasingly diverse gay press a vibrant market. . 12 May 2020 . Los Angeles Times . SPECIAL TO THE TIMES . . October 29, 1995 . Glance at the covers, and you won’t find the semi-nude hunk of the month, but female and male gay leaders in various fields--such as “gay super-model” Tim Boyce promoting Out magazine’s current fall fashion issue and Gore Vidal, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, currently on the cover of the Advocate..
  10. Leggett . Carole . High Five The New Supermodel Army . Arena Homme Plus . 1994 . 1 . 2 . 15 . Born: San Francisco.
  11. Siman . Ken . This Model's Life . Out Magazine . October 1995 . 26 . 68 . “Three years ago not long after he graduated from NYU, Tim quit his boring office job so he could put more time into carrying tunes and playing the guitar.”.
  12. Caldwell . Nicole . In Bed With Tim Boyce: This supermodel is more than just a pretty face . Playgirl . June 7, 2011 . 55 . Man Of The Year . 27 . this Irish-Italian moved to New York City at 16 and excelled in track & field, baseball, and other sports...He's gone on to become...a NYU graduate student..."I was fortunate enough to enter the profession after getting my BS in Communications Studies at NYU.".
  13. Web site: L'Uomo Vogue - October 1993 by Steven Meisel . The Fashion Spot . 13 May 2020 . Photographer Steven Meisel, Fashion Editor Lori Goldstein, Hair Garren.
  14. Schneider . Hanspeter . Cold War . British GQ . November 1994 . 65 . 182–189.
  15. Eberle . Todd . Summer Clothes, Salt of the Earth-Style . Interview Magazine . June 1993 . XXIII . 6 . 88–93 . p. 90: Models: Tim Boyce/Omar's Men, NYC.
  16. Hales-Took . Hugh . Men's Fashion Of The Times . New York Times Magazine . September 26, 1993 . 44.
  17. Leggett . Carole . High Five . Arena Homme + . 1994 . 1 . 2 . 15 . Advertising: Levi’s, Armani, Ferre Editorial: Arena, L’uomo Vogue, Vogue Homme, Details, Italian Vogue Shows: Calvin Klein, Armani, Miyake, Ferre, Donnna Karan.
  18. Web site: Worthington . Christa . FASHION / Time for the men to try it: Are these the new supermodels? Can they achieve parity with their female counterparts? Yes, if men's magazines have anything to do with it. . Independent UK . September 3, 1994 . 15 May 2020 . "ON THE count of three, give me attitude,' says the photographer Albert Watson to the five best-looking guys in the world.".
  19. Web site: ARENA HOMME PLUS MAGAZINE (AUTUMN/WINTER 1994 - ISSUE 2 - MARCUS SCHENKENBERG, TYSON BECKFORD, TIM BOYCE, GREGG SPAULDING AND LARRY SCOTT . Crazy About Magazines . 14 May 2020 . Two-page fold out cover.
  20. Web site: Worthington . Christa . FASHION / Time for the men to try it: Are these the new supermodels? Can they achieve parity with their female counterparts? Yes, if men's magazines have anything to do with it. . Independent UK . September 3, 1994 . 15 May 2020 . September 4, 1994: "...male models...have found new status, on the back of an urgent preoccupation with the male body...In advertising, fashion and cosmetics at least, men have become sex objects. They tower like gods in the pantheon of billboards above New York's Times Square in a state of chronic sexual readiness, muscles ripped and buffed, torsos marble smooth.".
  21. Siman . Ken . This Model's Life . Out . 26 . 66 . "Tim is being chronicled because as a six-figure Wilhemina model, easily recognizable from Armani ads, Details, and the male supermodel cover of Arena, people he has never met gossip and daydream about him.” (Includes a photo of Boyce in an Armani print advertisement and the cover of Arena Homme +.
  22. Boyce . Tim . Frock 'n' Roll: Benatar Seminar . Interview Magazine . September 1996 . Interview between Tim Boyce and Pat Benatar.
  23. Web site: Boyce . Tim . Frock 'n' Roll: Benatar Seminar . lemuseumdebenatar.com . Harold Bottomley . 13 May 2020 . "Frock 'n' Roll: Benatar Seminar" - Boyce's full interview and photos with Pan Benatar from the September 1996 issue of Interview Magazine..
  24. Leggett . Carole . High Five . Arena Homme + . 1994 . 1 . 2 . 15.
  25. Siman . Ken . This Model's Life . Out . October 1995 . 26 . 68.
  26. Sednaoui . Stephane . Jeux Sans Frontieres . Arena Homme + . 1994 . 1 . 2 . 130–135.
  27. Boyce . Tim . Frock 'N' Roll - Benatar Seminar . Interview Magazine . September 1996 . 26 . 9 . 106.
  28. Contributors . Interview Magazine . September 1996 . 26 . 9 . 26.
  29. News: Hanania . Joseph . Closeted No Longer . LA Times . Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong . 18 May 2020 . Glance at the covers, and you won’t find the semi-nude hunk of the month, but female and male gay leaders in various fields--such as “gay super-model” Tim Boyce promoting Out magazine’s current fall fashion issue....
  30. This Model's Life . Out Magazine . 26 . 4 . In This Issue.
  31. Siman . Ken . This Model's Life . Out Magazine . October 1995 . 26 . 66–70, 132–135.
  32. Siman . Ken . This Model's Life . Out Magazine . October 1995 . 26 . 134.
  33. Abelson . Reed . Out Magazine Acquired by The Advocate, a Key Rival . New York Times . February 21, 2000 . 18 May 2020 . The publisher of Out magazine, the nation's most widely read magazine aimed at gay men and lesbians, has been acquired by the publisher of The Advocate, its major rival, according to the two companies..
  34. Web site: Meers . Erik . Runway Renegades: Surprisingly, Gay and Lesbian Models Find That Even in a Business Dominated by Other Gays, It's Still Not Safe to Be out on the Catwalk . The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian news magazine) .
  35. Meers . Erik . Runway Renegades: Surprisingly, gay an lesbian models find that even in a business dominated by other gays, it's still not safe to be out on the catwalk . The Advocate . March 17, 1998 . 27–28 . 18 May 2020.
  36. News: Barr . Sabrina . EDWARD ENNINFUL EXPLAINS WHY GAY MALE MODELS FEEL AFRAID TO COME OUT . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/edward-enninful-gay-male-models-attitude-magazine-coming-out-hollywood-a8495766.html . May 7, 2022 . subscription . live . 18 May 2020 . Independent . INDY/LIFE . Independent Digital News & Media Ltd . August 17, 2018.
  37. News: Foster . Alistair . The Hollywood image of a perfect man stops gay male models coming out, says Edward Enninful . 18 May 2020 . The Evening Standard . Fashion News . Alexander Lebedev . August 16, 2018.

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