“Shine” is Yuri Pleskun’s nickname inked on his left arm in red and black letters. It was anointed in the streets of Co-op City where the fair-skinned kid stood out long before becoming a male model. Recall the dark-eyed, cloth-clad figure behind Gisele in Balenciaga’s Spring 2011 campaign. That was Pleskuns, er, Shine. Campaign aside, he has quite the oeuvre (from Italian Vogue to the runway at Rick Owens) for a twenty-one-year old discovered three years ago on the two train headed back to the Bronx.To read the rest of this interview click here!
Model: Yuri Pleskun
Publication: Industrie Magazine: NowManifest
Photographer: Rachel Chandler
