Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca

His father wanted his sons to speak English and experience the change of seasons, so he sent them to St. John's Military School in Salina, Kansas.

Anaya-Lucca attended Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri, and received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Economics in 1983.

Since then, he has lived in the East Village of NYC where he is represented by Defacto Inc.[2] In 1988, Anaya-Lucca took a job as a salesman in the Men's Clothing Department at the Ralph Lauren flagship store in New York.

[8][9] In addition to his long-term work for Ralph Lauren, Anaya-Lucca's other clients include: Calvin Klein, Emporio Armani, Brooks Brothers, Nautica, Kohls, FAO Schwarz, Victoria's Secret, Lord & Taylor, Gap, Louis Boston, Bloomingdales, Wormland, Saks Fifth Avenue, Oxford Clothes, Oscar de la Renta, Barry Bricken, Country Road, Joseph Abboud, Bergdorf Goodman, Hickey Freeman, Faconnable, Marks and Spencer, JC Penney and Hugo Boss.

[1][10] Some of the models he has photographed are: Sean O'Pry,[11][12] Garrett Neff,[13] River Viiperi, David Gandy,[14] Gabriel Aubry, Alex Lundqvist, Nacho Figueras, Oriol Elcacho and Oliver Cheshire[15] as well as Valentina Zelyaeva, Bridget Hall, Joan Smalls, Behati Prinsloo, Filippa Hamilton, Magdalena Frackowiak, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel, Bekah Jenkins and Emily DiDonato.

[16] In December 2009, Anaya-Lucca was featured in a solo art exhibition, "Adam and Eve", in the Luis Perez Galeria in Miami, Florida.

Anaya-Lucca was hired to shoot the special "Olympic Edition of the Ralph Lauren Label" which featured Ryan Lochte, Jonathan Horton and other athletes.

Anaya-Lucca in 2010
Anaya-Lucca (left) with fashion designer Ralph Lauren in 2013