Last year alone, prominent photographers were accused of sexual harassment; an industry veteran called out casting directors who refused to see models of colour or who used underage models; and, according to one report, a large group of models was allegedly forced to wait in a darkened stairwell for hours while the casting directors went to lunch.
After joining Ford Models in May , Chief Creative Officer Christopher Michael enlisted famed art director Fabien Baron — who had worked with Eileen in the past — to oversee the rebranding of the agency. Another major change Michael spearheaded was to do away with the old-fashioned method of categorising the models by age or body type.
Heading up the Ford office in Paris, Alexis Louison works with partners who scout new talent. While some new models might have a superstar like Karl Lagerfeld fall in love with their look and cast them immediately, others need time to learn to move, to pose, and to see if they even like the work. To avoid throwing them in at the deep end, Louison sends them to so-called development markets, such as Tokyo, or his favourite, Singapore — widely considered to be like a finishing school for runway walkers.
Wood got his start while studying fashion and realised he cared more about the models than the clothes. I work on how to amplify their voices. Yorkshire-born Fran Summers has just turned 19 and, after being discovered in a Westfield shopping centre, has already appeared in Prada campaigns and on Vogue covers. She runs around town at a frantic pace, trying to go to as many appointments as possible in the few short days leading up to Fashion Week — up to 10 a day.
At the casting appointments, she may be asked to demonstrate her runway walk, which she says has been a learning curve. Crystal Renn has been in the Caribbean frolicking at the Cove Atlantis with some dolphins. To go along with her beachy getaway, she's made a c.
A truly gracious and nice guy, he thankfully had no hard feelings about us turning him into Kermit the Frog. With that behind us, I asked him about the issue du jour, underage models walking in New York fashion week, and the CFDA's latest stance. Show Packages: think of them as baseball cards for the fashion set. For casting directors, they're pertinent to their jobs in the days leading up to Fashion Week, but for the rest of us The biggest agencies are rolling out their strongest lineups this season In fact, very few women--no matter what the.
Corinna Ingenleuf is a fresh face out of Hamburg, Germany and new to the Ford Models board but she's already got a Fashion Spot thread devoted to her--which generally bodes well for a model's future success so does the fact that she did Pringle of Scotland's resort look book. One commenter noted that Ingenleuf's got "Bieber hair" but we think she's got Bieber face, too. So does Australia's The Vine, who first noticed that this new model was a dead ringer for the Biebs.
Hey, we're game. What's striking about Ford's latest promotional push is that it's simply comprised of beautiful high-fashiony images of models who happen to not be straight size that means they are not a 0 and can be anywhere from a size 8 to It seems to be and hopefully is part of trend of incorporating models who aren't 0s and 2s--not just Crystal Renn--into the high fashion world, beyond catalogues.
Gary Dakin, the head of Ford's plus board, has been with the modeling agency for the last 13 years. In that time span, he says the market has changed dramatically for plus size models. Linchuk has been signed with DNA since , and in those five years DNA says they have "invested heavily in promoting, marketing and managing Linchuk's career and professional image, preparing her for and helping her choose modeling assignments, shoots, etc.
All was well in DNA's house until April 15 of this year, when Linchuk suddenly announced her desire to leave the agency. The piece goes on to cite an interview Renn did for Plus Model Radio radio in which she said, "Because of my size currently, I straddle this line between the two worlds--I guess you could say I'm a plus size straight size model.
I am four inches smaller than a plus size model and four inches bigger than a straight size model. After yesterday's news of Paul Rowland and team leaving Supreme and moving to Ford, we suspected that more reports of changes would surface.
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