About

Born in New York in 1954, Steven Meisel was fascinated with beauty and models from an early age.

Being only twelve years old, he asked older friends to call model agencies pretending they were Richard Avedon’s assistants in order to get hold of photographs in the models’ portfolios. Meisel even made a habit of skipping school to seek out chance encounters with models on the street, photographing them with his Instamatic.

He attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City before enrolling in Parsons, The New School of Design where he majored in fashion illustration. After …