Diogo Gomes

Diogo Gomes is a Portuguese model born in Lisbon and raised in Monaco, where his first sporting ambition was to become a professional footballer. He returned to Portugal at eighteen, learning Portuguese as he explored the country of his birth, before an encounter in a Lisbon shopping center introduced him to modeling.

In a 2020 interview with NiT, Diogo recalled being approached by Just Models scout Rita Diogo at Centro Colombo in August 2019. He was buying food for his cat while his girlfriend had her nails done. A visit to the agency led to castings for ModaLisboa and Portugal Fashion, and he practiced his runway walk at home.

Five months after being scouted, Diogo walked exclusively for Louis Vuitton’s fall-winter 2020 menswear show in Paris. “They had believed in me, they knew my ability, so I had to be confident,” he told NiT, translated from Portuguese. The assignment provided an international starting point for the career that followed.

Designer advertising subsequently became a recurring part of Diogo’s work. Ferragamo cast him in its spring 2023 imagery and again for the spring-summer 2025 campaign, photographed by Juergen Teller. Giorgio Armani also became a continuing relationship, with holiday 2023 advertising followed by the fall-winter 2024 campaign, photographed by Carlijn Jacobs.

His photographic career has developed through magazine work and clothing imagery too, including GQ Italia, Dansk, and GANT’s spring-summer 2024 collection photographs with Philip Messmann. An AnOther Man story photographed by Gabriel Moses in 2025 added another editorial collaboration, while his runway work continued with houses including Kenzo and Giorgio Armani.

Movement remains a personal interest beyond those assignments. His Nest agency biography describes a longstanding aptitude for dance and a commitment to looking after his physical and mental health. It also records his admiration for artist Faith Ringgold and entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, offering a glimpse of the figures he looks to outside fashion.