Vogue’s Anna Wintour during the Marc Jacobs Fall-Winter 2018 show, shot by Martin RomeroA few years ago, former To be You contributing editor Stef Cabal and I were talking with potential student correspondents for this Lifestyle subsection. A lanky and shy college student named Martin Romero stepped inside the room and sheepishly showed us his photography portfolio.
“I honestly thought I wouldn’t see her since Marc Jacobs is usually the last show of New York Fashion Week, but then amid the mob of Peta protesters, security, fans and photographers, I spotted her famous bob. She wore this tan python leather trench coat and she was rushing to the show. I was lucky enough to photograph her sandwiched between the protesters and the police.”
In 2014, he decided to take up a master’s degree in Professional Studies in Interactive Telecommunications or ITP, a program of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.“After my master’s program, I was eligible to work for a year. I wanted to stay longer,” he recalled. He accidentally got down the wrong subway station and stumbled upon a hotel and saw celebrities, specifically Hollywood star Olivia Munn of “X-Men Apocalypse” going out on her way to the Met Gala 2018’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” show.Street-style photography has always been Romero’s forte. He had been doing a bit of photo journalism since grade school.
He loves great-looking clothes and how fashion amplifies confidence in people— which is best expressed through personal style.