Canadian Models

[Nader]

Gah, another model was discovered at Tim Hortons and I can't remember who! Maybe it was Tegan or Madeleine that I read an article about on modelresource.ca. Gah... if only I could remember. I think it was an Elmer Olsen discovery. I think it was Tegan.

Yeah i think it was tegan too.. she's gorgeous and so underrated (i think she was actually working in timmy's when it happened too)

andi is also somewhat underrated

 

[thetaryn]

This is an article from Elle Canada (sept. 05) about models from Alberta. All the girls mentioned (except Lisa) are from Mode Models. I really loved this article and wanted to post it somewhere and I thought this forum was the most appropriate.

Little model on the prarie by: Doris Montanera

Cue the chorus. Picture the poster from the Sound of Music and a woman with clear, radiant skin, looking a little like a young Julie Andrews, twirling on a mountaintop. You can almost hear the yodelling. This is the image that is selling the current crop of Alberta beauties to the world- Heather Marks, Tricia Helfer, Lisa Cant, Marla Boehr, Brenna Rose, Julie Dunstall, Claire Cormeau and Agnieska, to name a few.
"They're milk-fed mountain models," says Mode Models' president Kelly Streit, an 18-year veteran at picking potential out of a crowd. He says that the clean air, along with the Canadian work ethic, is helping Calgary replace Rio on the modelling radar.
Pretty pixie Heather Marks was only 12, with a mouth full of metal, when Streit spotted her at The Calgary Woman's Show. Just turned 17, she has scored ad campaigns for Marc by Marc Jacobs, Just Cavalli and Moschino, as well as editorials in Italian and American Vogue, W, i-D and Harper's Bazaar. The camera loves her.
Streit's successes are garnering him a great rep as a scout with the right eye. "I see two dimensionally," he says. "When I look at a face, I can see what she's going to look like in pictures." He found Tricia Helfer in the '90s, and he hit the bulls'-eye a couple of years ago at the Calgary Stampede: when he saw Marla Boehr walking around the Midway, he chased her down- something he does quite often. "We had a little model search happening at the Stampede," he says. "It was something Marla had never thought of doing." Now Boehr's chart is lit up with ad campaigns and top runway gigs at Louis Vuitton and Prada. "She has arresting features-tall and birdlike. She's level-headed and incredibly patient," says Streit. "People love to work with her because you can put her in a corner for hours and she doesn't complain."
Unlike the buxom, bronzed Brazilian clones, there's no one look coming out of Calgary. High-rise cityscapes and oil-rich slicks aside, it's all about a stampede of eclectic, picture-perfect images of wholesomeness.

 

[Simone]

She isn't new I don't think, but I think Rachel Roberts is so very pretty.

 

[oicicup]

lisa cant!

 

[Chelsea3c]

Yeah i think it was tegan too.. she's gorgeous and so underrated (i think she was actually working in timmy's when it happened too)

andi is also somewhat underrated

Haha, It's true! Tegan WAS working at Tim Hortons when she was discovered!
The scout ordered a coffee from her and noticed her unique features but decided to walk away. After taking a sip of her coffee and realizing that Tegan put too many sugars in it she went back and the rest is history as they say!
The scout later said that putting too much sugar in her coffee was the best thing that's ever happened to Tegan hehe

Didn't Linda Evangelista get some backlash from te fashion world for her "I don't get out of bed in the morning for less than $10 000" comment?
Anyway, I love them all! They all have very unique, individual features!

 

[lola belle]

Oh my god, I just found out Estella's from Peterborough! Hahaha. The Chanel girl from Peterborough ... I it.

I really like her, Daria, Shalom and Tegan. Speaking of which, has anybody else noticed how our Canadian models all have really, really cool names? I swear I'm going to have to change mine if I ever actually get off my *** and send out pictures ...

 

[Chelsea3c]

Haha, it's true! Are there many Chelseas in the modelling world right now? lol

 

[Dadum]

I adore Jessica Stam. She got a very unique look, followed by Daria and Heather

 

[Chelsea3c]

I'm disappointed with what Jessica Stam's done with her hair
It looks the same way Lindsay Lohan's does, I don't think it suits either of them.

 

[violet]

Yasmin is my favourite run-away Canuck model for sure. She's got a natural grace to her that Stam, Marks don't have. Daria I disliked for quite sometime but some of her recent editorials have been really impressed me.

Re: Stam... she's a natural blonde, who looks good as a redhead... Her agent got her to dye her hair red to escape looking too 'generic'. Lindsay on the other hand is a natural redhead who can't pull off the blonde look.

Others...Lisa Cant bores me... and Maria Dvirnik, don't understand the fuss.

Other than Yasmin, I much prefer the previous generation of Canadian models...Eve Salvail, Shalom and Linda namely.

 

[American Aries]

I like Daria and Heather... I got to know Heather because of her distinctive walk on the runways! I kept saying to myself, "Who is that girl??"

 

[Chelsea3c]

Re: Stam... she's a natural blonde, who looks good as a redhead... Her agent got her to dye her hair red to escape looking too 'generic'. Lindsay on the other hand is a natural redhead who can't pull off the blonde look.

Are you sure? Well if she really is a true blonde then her new dye job isn't looking too great
I still like her though, she's got an amazing look and she always seems to have this attitude about her on the runway and in editorials

 

[yourbestfriend]

I dont know if she was a natural blonde, but she was blonde when she was scouted..her first polaroid has blonde hair

 

[fouroclock]

all Canadian models has gorgeous eyes

I just realized that. That is, if by saying eyes you really mean eyes and you're not using innuendoes et al.

To me it's always a contest between Heather and Daria, but Heather wins mostly. Then Dvirnik, and Stam, Agnes, Yasmin, Lisa Cant, and so on.

 

[OriginalSin]

I dont know if she was a natural blonde, but she was blonde when she was scouted..her first polaroid has blonde hair

wow i had no idea!....well that girl needs to go back and dye her hair red!!!!

the red really made her stand out, and her eyes 'pop' more
(not literally...just realized eye and pop should not be used in the same sentence hahahaha)

 

[yourbestfriend]

Her first polaroid, looks like she's shed some inches since then

jessica's thread

 

[Kanna]

linda evangelista, the greatest canadian model ever imho

I strongly agree with you.
And I'd like to add Daria W. Linda and Daria are just *perfect*.
I love them.

 

[Nader]

Madeline Berrevoets is becoming one of my favourites... I think she looks so unique and has the gorgeousest eyes.

 

[dewi]

daria werbory

 

[marqueemoon]

Her first polaroid, looks like she's shed some inches since then

jessica's thread

I'm pretty sure she's not a natural blonde. The scout who discovered her said Stam was suffering from a bad bleach job at the time. I'm guessing her hair is naturally light brown.