Welcome to my website PETERMARCHAL.COM

My passion for models started when I was a young kid. A good friend of mine (Sander) started with making a scrapbook of the supermodels. When I saw it I really liked it and started my own book by cutting out the models from the magazines and catalog’s and gluing them into my book.
That went over in collecting the magazines and catalog’s. Trough the years my collection got really big almost 4500 items. At a certain point my collection got too big and I started selling a lot of stuff on ebay. I have now more then 1000 magazines/catalog’s left.

When I was 16 years old I went for the first time to Paris with my mothers and Sander. Accidentally we met Shalom Harlow and Stella Tennant in front of a diamond shop on the Saint Honoré. We were really excited and hysterical!
When I was 20 we started going to the Paris fashion week every year twice. We tried to sneak into the fashion shows by pretending that we were the assistants from the photographer, by just walking in at the last moment, by just moving the fences or by pretending to be the models for that show. When we got into the shows we also went backstage, though we weren't allowed there we still did it. That's also the place were we met a lot of models and designers. You can see the photo's from me with them in the photo galleries. Because we always managed to get into the fashion shows and backstage we were interviewed by a national dutch paper. After that we were asked to do an interview for the dutch television in a program watched by millions of people (Live and Cooking) and later on also for another really popular program (RTL Boulevard).
After doing quite a lot of interviews for magazines and television we were asked by few magazines to start writing for them. We got a dutch press card and that made it a lot easier to get into the shows.
These days I don’t work for the magazines anymore but I’m still going to the fashion shows every year. The new pictures and stories will be on this website. Have fun with them!!