Models Switching Agencies

[Faith Akiyama]

^Shifted over from One alongside Denisa.

 

[taben]

Thanks

 

[Plato's_Cave]

Yeah, they're all from the same mother agent. I imagine relations got a bit frosty, since Mirka and Sasha left too (they didn't have the same booker, right?).

I only like a couple of One's new girls, and they're not doing a very good job with the newish ones. Currently they pretty much just have Aline. Claudia Seiler more or less bombed her second season, and I'm not sure how Gantz, Eden etc. will do. But that's OT for this thread, sorry.

That's how I feel about Ford too, yaars. From the outside, at least, it looks like it's getting too crowded.

 

[Starry_Night]

I'm not crazy about one's new girls either. I'm really only a fan of Irina Gorban. It'll be interesting to see what happens with one now that they've lost Denisa and Michaela. Admittedly they still have girls who are bigger than both Denisa and Michaela, but I wonder if they'll lose any more girls.

 

[*Bianca*]

Dorith Mous: Trump NY -> Next NY

 

[model_mom]

^Thank you!

Every single time I look at the Ford "Image" board it feels like they've added about six of seven new, and slightly indistinguishable, girls from the last time that I looked. The problem being that if they're trying to make stars out of all their new girls, I worry about what kind of time they'll have to push some of their more established acquisitions.

The problem with Ford is that they try to cover all their bases in case one of their players hit it big, but when that one model hits they tend to forget the rest of the team.

 

[cold_sun]

Julia Stegners about to change to IMG according to her thread....any idea why ?

 

[tocceve]

^And another question would be which cities. I guess she will stay with Marilyn Paris and I know that there are models who are signed with IMG and Women (different cities of course) so will she be with IMG New York and Milan or oinly with one of them? And what could that mean to her career? Sorry but I'm a bit confused, Women has always been so proud of Julia and I can't see why IMg wants her now. Maybe it's the Maybelline contract.

 

[WerbowyStegner]

She's a 'money' girl duh she brings in money

 

[yourbestfriend]

Madeleine Blomberg - IMG ---> Marilyn

For how long now I don't know..

 

[Starry_Night]

Julia is now officially on IMG's website.

 

[smartarse]

UPDATE: Agencies battle over models Agnete Hansen and Natalia Andrade

BY JOSE MARTINEZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, August 15th 2008, 3:30 PM

Tracy for News Agnete Hegelund Hansen


Hands off our sexy models!
Ford Models is suing a rival firm for allegedly poaching a Brazilian beauty and a Danish delight from its stable of lovelies.
The agencies are locked in an ugly dispute over the contracts of models Agnete Hegelund Hansen and Natalia Andrade, who allegedly broke their contracts with Ford to jump to Next Management.
Hansen, a blue-eyed Danish stunner who's appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, is accused of violating an exclusive contract with Ford last month by following her manager and another Ford employee to Next Management.
In the suit filed late Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Ford says it invested handsomely in Hansen to convert her from an "unknown" into "one of the industry's most popular and recognized models." But she is accused of jumping ship right as she's about to enter the "big money territory" of beauty and fragrance company contracts.
"Next induced Ms. Hansen to breach her contractual obligations with Ford Models and positioned itself to reap the rewards of Ford Models' investment," the suit alleges.
Hansen first came to Ford's attention in 2005 when an agency in Copenhagen connected her to the famed Manhattan firm.
Last year, according to the suit, she agreed to a deal with Ford for six-figure modeling jobs - paying the firm a 20% commission and a 20% service fee.
Natalia Andrade, a Brazilian who's posed in sizzling ads for lingerie and Jimmy Choo shoes, is accused of trying to follow
Hansen out the door by e-mailing Ford on Monday to inform the firm that she was seeking a new agency.
Her attempt to quit came only a week after Karen Chanti, her booker at Ford, bolted for Next Management.
"Next attempted to induce Ms. Chanti to cause and induce models... including Ms. Andrade, to leave Ford Models," the suit says.
Next and a lawyer for Ford Models did not return calls.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2...agencies_battle_over_models_agnete_hanse.html

 

[Patches]

I wouldnt blame Ford.....

 

[smartarse]

Continuation: A MODEL 'MEDDLE' MUDDLE... FORD SUES 'POACHER' BIZ

Goodness. Did Next take all the Ford agents? lol

A MODEL 'MEDDLE' MUDDLE

FORD SUES 'POACHER' BIZ


By DAREH GREGORIAN


CLASHING: Danish poser Agnete Hegelund Hansen was lured fromFord Models to rival Next Management, Ford charges in a Manhattan suit.



Posted: 4:10 am
August 16, 2008
It's a catwalk fight!
Ford Models has filed suit against rival Next Management, charging the agency stole one of its top models and is trying to swipe another.
Execs at Next have "engaged in a scheme to undermine Ford Models and cause damage to its New York Women's Division" by raiding staff and persuading them to bring their models along, Ford charged in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The suit says Next's conduct is "unlawful" and "an attempt to gain an unfair competitive advantage against Ford Models."
The firm wants a court order de manding Next keep its hands off their models.
The suit says Next already man aged to get Danish dish Agnete Hegelund Hansen to walk away from her Ford contract earlier this year, and is trying to coax Brazilian bathing-suit model Natalia An drade to follow in her footsteps.
A spokesman for Next - which represents supermodels Daniela Pestova, Molly Sims and Petra Nemcova - said the company doesn't comment on litigation.
The suit says Next put its "scheme" into action earlier this year, when it hired away Craig Lockner.
He had been Ford's "point per son" in handling Hansen, a leggy 20-year-old blonde who started working for Ford in 2006.
"Prior to Ms. Hansen's relation ship with Ford Models, she was un known as a top model and lacked the reputation with clients and photographers to secure high-level bookings," the suit says.
Ford introduced her "to a Who's Who of the fashion industry" - introductions that "were instrumental and critical to Ms. Hansen's growth and success in the modeling industry," the suit says.
Now that she's become "one of the industry's most popular and recognized models," Next used Lockner to bring her to them, the suit says.
The suit notes that Hansen announced she was jumping ship on July 9 - just five days after Lockner quit.
"Ford Models expended substantial resources, time, and effort and tapped significant professional relationships on Ms. Hansen's behalf and as an investment in her career," the suit says.
Now that she's poised to break into big-money territory with cosmetics and perfume ads, she's been stolen away by a company that knows she's under contract with somebody else, it says.
The suit says Next is now trying to do the same thing with Andrade, who told them in an e-mail earlier this week that she was "seeking new representation."
The e-mail came one week after Andrade's booker, Karen Chanti, suddenly quit Ford. The day of the e-mail, Chanti "began working as a regular employee for Next."
Ford responded to Andrade's e-mail with a reminder that "she had a binding contract with Ford Models through at least January 2010, and that Ford Models intended to hold her to that contract."
Andrade has been linked romantically to former Paris Hilton and Mary-Kate Olsen man-snack Stavros Niarchos.
It's unclear whether she will follow Hansen's lead and simply ignore her contract. A lawyer for Ford did not return a call for comment.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162008/news/regionalnews/a_model_meddle_muddle_124684.htm

 

[modelfanamber]

Looks like Cicely Telman has gone from Ford to Trump.

 

[FashinKid90]

uh oh..they better be good to chanel and her agents

 

[Starry_Night]

two things from Fashionista:

Karen Elson to Women, Too?
Aug 22, 2008 @ 1:05pm

So right on top of Agyness' departure comes another:

We were just told that Karen Elson is also leaving DNA to join the major women's board at Women.

Hopefully, Linda, Karolina, Stella, Natalia etc will stay put at DNA -

Otherwise, what's happening to them?

And does this mean DNA will be totally without a redhead?

Agyness Deyn to Women, Come December?!
Aug 22, 2008 @ 9:05am

Thanks to agency spies for telling us this:

Agyness Deyn is indeed hopping agencies to Women starting this December.

Though DNA will still represent her - and make their commission off her - through this show season, she's actually slated to appear in Women's Show Package, which will soon be on COACD, no doubt.

The move follows several high profile jumps in the past few months - Agnete bailing from Ford, Daisy Lowe parting ways with IMG, and Naomi Campbell doing... well, who knows what.

And this news is also good because it confirms one other thing:

Agyness will be walking in the catwalk shows this season! Yay!

fashionista

 

[Fontenrose]

mdc via starry night in show packages thread

 

[Starry_Night]

Christina Kruse switched from DNA to Women

 

[Nathy Passos]

Camila Finn switched from Ford to Ten (Brazil)
and she's not with Ford Paris and NY anymore..
=)