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Biography
Marlon Luiz Teixeira (born September 16, 1991) is a Brazilian male fashion model and actor.
Career
He started his career when his grandmother introduced him to Anderson Baumgartner, owner of Way Model Management and friend of the family.
He has walked for numerous shows including Emporio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, DSquared², Roberto Cavalli, Jean Paul Gaultier and many more and opened for shows such as Emporio Armani and Dior Homme. Marlon has also appeared on several magazine covers L'Officiel Hommes, Essential Homme, Fiasco, Made in Brazil, Client, and Hercules. Alongside this he has appeared in high fashion editorials for GQ, Vogue Espana, V, Elle, W magazine with Ginnifer Goodwin and Vanity Fair with Shakira.
In 2011, Teixeira the became face of new Diesel fragrance "Diesel Fuel for Life Denim Collection" together with Dutch model Marloes Horst. The ad campaign was shot by Terry Richardson and video campaign is directed by Melina Matsoukas.
Formerly ranked in the Top 50 by models.com. He is currently ranked Trending Men, Top Icons Men, Sexiest Men, Next Generation on Models.com list of the international male models. 2015's Hottest Male Model by Yahoo.
He took part in Philip Kirkorov’s video-clip, “Snow”.
Awards:
- Muzt Tv Awards 2012 (Philipp Kirkorov - Snow)
- Portugal Fashion Awards 2012 (BEST NEW FACE MODEL: Marlon Teixeira)
- LIA Awards - Silver 2011 (Diesel Fuel for Life Denim Collection)
- Clio Awards - Bronze 2012 (Diesel Fuel for Life Denim Collection)
Personal life
Teixeira is of Native Brazilian, Japanese, Portuguese and Swiss descent. He lives in Praia Brava - Balneário Camboriú but he travels a lot. He lived in New York City.
Cheyenne Tozzi:
Cheyenne and Marlon were introduced last year through mutual celebrity friend and model Jordan Barrett. The genetically-blessed couple welcomed their first child (Dahlia de la Lune) together September 2018, but initially kept the baby's arrival a secret. Nowadays Marlon and Cheyenne are not together. But he is the best dad.
