Model Casting S/S 2025

[Armani]

Noticing a TON of models slowing down this season… the common denominator being PG between just about all of them. Seems to have dropped a lot of girls from his radar.

 

[penny609]

22 newcomers booked as Prada-exclusives? Would have been funnier with 40 or 45 of them, like a full cast of new models, straight out of the blue or almost... At least that would have made sense in its nonsense
It's some kind of a bitter reminiscence of that season they had Adina Forizs opening (with even less than a little dozen of one-hit-wonders back then). Did they call Russell Marsh for advice before the show this season? Did he answer them, while knitting, that they should go for the most random they can?

Seriously, september used to be the most exciting month of the year. Times ago. Magazines, show packages, shows and then my 4th and last yearly trip to Paris at the very end of the month. Sure, everything wasn't perfect at all back then. Far, far from it. There were many things I deeply disliked from this era (like "models of color" basically meant booking Chanel Iman to look less racist, or hearing every single day "she's not doing the shows, she's too fat this season" and so on). Today we do have that diversity in terms of color, size, look, age etc. and most of what we get is pure gimmick...

Perhaps it's big time to re-think the whole thing as a whole. Seasons don't mean much anymore (fashion or weather) and a lot of people/brands/magazines just aim to look/sound/seem appealing for some 15 seconds on social medias.

There are still tons of beauty out there, tons of interesting things being done for whoever loves digging a tad deeper. Honestly, when it comes to models, there are more amazing faces than ever before, every single agency's got at least 2-3 ones about whom I would have loved to say "I scouted them" yet meanwhile talent has never been wasted like this. If there weren't the "for my eyes only"-option in my mind, I'd say it's all gloomy and depressing. Or heartbreaking?

 

[lanvinray]

I miss the good ol days when we have unforgettable exclusives from Prada & Gucci
Abbey Lee & Karlie for Gucci or Sasha, Gemma & Irina K for Prada

 

[franceslions]

So many new faces and no excitement in sight.
To me the most impressive new faces are Stella Hanan and Noemi Kassa, the
most beautiful girl at Bottega (look 65)

 

[MyNameIs]

I miss the good ol days when we have unforgettable exclusives from Prada & Gucci
Abbey Lee & Karlie for Gucci or Sasha, Gemma & Irina K for Prada

2000s was THAT decade for model watching.

 

[lhhbl]

Where’s Sora Choi?

 

[Cute]

Where’s Sora Choi?

In a Vogue Korea article she mentioned that she wanted to start a family and her Instagram bio says respite so she’ll probably be gone a while.

 

[lhhbl]

In a Vogue Korea article she mentioned that she wanted to start a family and her Instagram bio says respite so she’ll probably be gone a while.

Thank you! She really slowed down but I hope she can fulfill her new dreams 🧡

 

[TomBlanksFullFatMiuMiu]

What a great season without all those nepo babies, except at Versace
Wish every fashion month can be like this

 

[nouvellebeaute]

Penelope Ternes is my favorite new girl

Too bad her attitude kinda sucks. (Known from personal experience hihi)

 

[vogue22]

the gag is penelope is not even a fresh face aha she's been booking and busy since 2019 but that yves saint laurent ad campaign catapulted her to new heights!

 

[vogue22]

Bella is rumored to walk the Yves Saint Laurent spring 2025 fashion show on september 24th as a worldwide exclusive!

btw bella just arrived in paris to walk the show as an exclusive as previously stated!

 

[vogue22]

Alex Consani had a very poor season in Milan.. No versace, gucci, D&g, prada, fendi...
Tiktok is ruined her career lol
The fact she's nominated for model of the year is a big joke

its clearly obvious that piergiorgio has been snubbing her for the longest time since her breakout season..🙄 when was the last time this man casted a trans model for more than 2 shows? probably 7 years 😅

 

[vogue22]

Honestly u guys care too much about Prada's exclusive girls when we all know those exclusive contracts no longer hold much weight.
Prada doesn't have the same power to create industry superstars as they once did.
When was the last time a Prada girl’s career skyrocketed after walking their show?
It was probably Anok Yai, six years ago, and she wasnt even an exclusive!

 

[fenty]

A Prada Exclusive used to mean so much, dare I say an exclusive contract with Saint Laurent triumphs over Prada

 

[FiveEasyPieces]

It's disgusting to see Girls like Daria Strokous and Vanessa Moody doing Z list shows like Elisabetta Franchi while Selena Forrest is doing Gucci and Versace just because she is part of the PGDM mafia.

Daria’s career definitely benefited from connections she made in the fashion industry outside modelling that raised her profile; I think models like her suffer because the figures that brought them to prominence are no longer influential, or because the model has taken a extended sabbatical. I doubt contemporaries of Daria like Karmen Pedaru or Kasia Strauss would fare any better, and Selena may face the same roadblocks down the line. It is a shame that Vanessa has been sidelined again immediately after her comeback.

I miss the good ol days when we have unforgettable exclusives from Prada & Gucci
Abbey Lee & Karlie for Gucci or Sasha, Gemma & Irina K for Prada

One thing I don’t miss about that era is that if there was an exclusive you didn’t find appealing, it was likely you’d have to tolerate them for a few seasons because there were so few new models able to break through. I’m not so sure those models would be able to now (maybe Abbey and Gemma, because they’re quite singular beauties).

 

[Cute]

Alex Consani had a very poor season in Milan.. No versace, gucci, D&g, prada, fendi...
Tiktok is ruined her career lol
The fact she's nominated for model of the year is a big joke

I’m quite shocked she only ever walked for Versace once. I thought that she was totally a PGDM girl.. she’s popular enough on social media that the tiktok generation loves and recognizes her right away so I feel like she should be everywhere. She was already popular on tiktok before she debuted at Tom Ford so I don’t think it ruined her career.

btw bella just arrived in paris to walk the show as an exclusive as previously stated!

I hope you’re right and she doesn’t just sit front row.

 

[penny609]

Honestly u guys care too much about Prada's exclusive girls when we all know those exclusive contracts no longer hold much weight.
Prada doesn't have the same power to create industry superstars as they once did.
When was the last time a Prada girl’s career skyrocketed after walking their show?
It was probably Anok Yai, six years ago, and she wasnt even an exclusive!

Indeed, too much attention paid to Prada's exclusive shenanigans, even back to those days it was considered as the ultimate booking of the season and the highway to superstardom. Sure, it did happen, in that very past, and some true standouts of the modeling world debuted as Prada-girls. But I read Irina Kulikova's name on this page and I wouldn't consider her a "Prada-made success". After the show, even six months or a year after, some tFS members were getting literally nuts and bananas as she didn't get a Vogue Italia cover by Steven Meisel. She's always had a huge fanbase here but a much lower impact on the fashion scene as a whole (though she can't be considered a "failure" or a bad model). Many others disappeared faster than they came or had to cope with B-list (or even C-list) jobs after their 15 minutes (now it's more like 10 seconds) of glorious spotlights during the most coveted show in Milan of those days.

 

[penny609]

What a great season without all those nepo babies, except at Versace
Wish every fashion month can be like this

When most see the glass as half-empty, you see it half-full. Quite like your state of mind and wish I could feel the same.

 

[penny609]

2000s was THAT decade for model watching.

Surely that was. Despite the less-appealing sides of modeling during that decade as I wrote before, the "process" and the excitement it used to bring was clearly miles and miles above what we have now. There was no Instagram and other tools (or toys?) like that and when a new face came out of the blue, you had to dig deep to find out who she was etc. I recall convos here with the likes of @Faith Akiyama or @mariemaud among others, trying to find out where this or that newcomer came from, what was her mother agency, does she have polaroids somewhere etc. Same with magazines, we didn't get a zillion covers for an issue, had to wait until it hit the bookstore shelves (unless some keen model agent gave us a hint every now and then) before have the delightful surprise (or sometimes big disappointment). We used to be true detectives and patient, passionate hunters relentlessly looking for what will thrill us for days. Now we just sit down and watch, squeezed or smashed by the overload of information available, even against our will.