Wikipedia Draft:Marco Castelli



Marco Castelli (born June 7 1990, San Cataldo, Sicily) is an Italian model and fashion designer.

Biography
He was born in San Cataldo near Caltanissetta in Sicily. Son of Domenico and Elena, iron artisans, he lived for almost twenty years with his family in Porto Empedocle in province of Agrigento. Where he was study and working in various activities. At the age of 14, he worked as welder in the company of his grandfather Calogero Maria, he Is also was dedicated to sport: he plays football and kick boxing; in 2010 he graduated in commercial and tourist services at the Nicolò Gallo School.

Fashion
Castelli began his modeling activity at age 20 when he worked as a lifeguard in Sicily, he was discovered by a talent scout who purposed to him to do a catwalk for United colors Benetton.

Right after high school, he moved to Milan and after six months he signed the first contract with the Italian designer Gianfranco Ferrè.

In 2011, he worked for the first time abroad, in Sweden and New York. He was featured on the advertising of C.P Company and Corneliani.

In 2012, he starred in Italian editions of Cosmopolitan and L'uomo Vogue. In Asia. in 2013 he spends nine months between Shanghai, Beijing where he poses for Ermenegildo Zegn a and Cartier. From Tokyo, Japan, we work for Sony and Aspesi, then wear Bottega Veneta. In the same year, he signed the first contract as ambassador, for four years, of the New Yorker OVVO OPTICS and established himself internationally by doing severals catwalks at New York Fashion week.

He works in Los Angeles for John Varvatos, in Miami, he poses for Flaunt Magazine and starts one collaboration with Giuseppe Zanotti.

Castelli was also select several times for the fashion shows of Philipp Plein and appears on the cover of American Salon.

In 2016, he dedicated himself to creative inspiration by designing his own capsule fashion collection, thus creating Marco Castelli Collection, immediately proposed on the cover of FSHN Magazine.

In March 2017, Marco appears on the cover of TMN Magazine, in 2018 Marco is the face of the social media campaign of Fendi and Safilo Group, Shows at the Cannes Film festival and in December, in Paris he is model in the photoshoot for the bleu the Chanel fragrance, becoming the only Italian men model of Chanel

In March 2019, he start an instagram collaboration with Breitling

During a shooting in the streets of Milan, He was chosen as the designer for the Royal family Al Thani from Qatar, Collaborating with Virginia Commonwealth University school.

In May 2019, he start a collaboration as influencer with Bentley and works for Cartier Foundation in Paris.

On 23rd September 2019, Marco organizes a charity Gala in his home town, at the foot of Valle dei Templi and he calls it The Heart Med Gala. Many guests including supermodel and singer Sam Way, Italian Actress Melania Dalla Costa, The American philanthropic and physicist Adam Shulman and other important guests including representatives of the United Nations organization.

In March 2020, Castelli launched the campaign he calls Rinascita. Deciding to support the foundation friends for Central Africa Carla Maria Pagani against the fight caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Feb 2021, he was called by Adriana Volpe to participate as an entrepreneur in the television program TV8.

Awards

 * He was included in the top of models 2015 ranking by Models.com
 * On 17 august 2018, he received a plaque of merit for international goals from the municipal of Porto Empedocle