Models Switching Agencies | Page 114 | the Fashion Spot

Models Switching Agencies

This obsession with newness is interesting. It makes modeling more about the agency and less about the model. Its like the models are merely flag-bearers for their agency... they walk their hundred yards and then pass the flag on to the next girl. I think the tough part of an agent's work would be telling the girl to let go.
 
It's more about the clients than about the agencies or models. Editors, photogs and designers are the ones who push this incessant need for new faces. When the business got flooded with all these bland non-descript girls, there were these theories that designers were reacting against the glamazon supermodels of the 90s who attracted all the attention to the detriment of the designers and their creations.
I think this obsession with new girls is a manifestation of the same pathology. If you have this constant flow of new girls, there's less of a chance that they will become the new supermodels.
 
Yes, and I get the impression too that there are magazine editors, photographers and even some bloggers out there who are forever competing with one and other for the kudos of "discovering the next big thing".
It's now become a sport!
 
If a small / new agency focuses on new faces, then it has decided to play in the transactional / commodity aspect of modeling as opposed to finding / developing / managing a few select girls and getting top bookings for them - think fast food restaurant versus four star restaurant. I don't think that another supermodel era is imminent, but I do think that the pendulum is swinging back towards models with personality and star power.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Yes, and I get the impression too that there are magazine editors, photographers and even some bloggers out there who are forever competing with one and other for the kudos of "discovering the next big thing".
It's now become a sport!

There is also a simply and rude economic reason which push the business in huge new girls turnover, it is that to avoid the girls to become the new supermodels, means that the tariff stay under control.
So i also think that it is an important reason why clients prefer to often renew the girls.

So automatically, this gives to agency a big need to have new things to propose all the time, but that need has always been there, it has just changed a bit in the last years.

The new faces blogging thing is a funny things, nowadays, it is clearly laughable. It started with few bloggers with good eyes, spending time to spot good girls. Now they all become lazy, they receive girls proposal in their mailbox sent usually by the worst mother agents for who blogs is the only way to be visible, so the level got down the pants. Except models.com who is still rather selective about what they feature (and who are anyway the only site really regularly checked by the industry) i hardly read any other blog nowadays.
 
There is also a simply and rude economic reason which push the business in huge new girls turnover, it is that to avoid the girls to become the new supermodels, means that the tariff stay under control.
So i also think that it is an important reason why clients prefer to often renew the girls.

So automatically, this gives to agency a big need to have new things to propose all the time, but that need has always been there, it has just changed a bit in the last years.

The new faces blogging thing is a funny things, nowadays, it is clearly laughable. It started with few bloggers with good eyes, spending time to spot good girls. Now they all become lazy, they receive girls proposal in their mailbox sent usually by the worst mother agents for who blogs is the only way to be visible, so the level got down the pants. Except models.com who is still rather selective about what they feature (and who are anyway the only site really regularly checked by the industry) i hardly read any other blog nowadays.

i thought agencies had to pay to get their girls coverage on models.com?
 
^^I don't know but if that's so then MDC would have absolutely no credibility. If an agency has to pay MDC to get a girl ranked, then the rankings are a fraud. I've heard that agencies from time to time have issues with MDC. They refused to list DNA girls as being with DNA for a little while about 2 months ago, but I've not heard that an agency actually had to pay MDC to get coverage for their models.
 
Well....indeed Ruby Jean from Elite is now at Ford!!!
 
Last edited by a moderator:
i thought agencies had to pay to get their girls coverage on models.com?

For new faces featured (what was before only at theone2watch) it is free.

But it is true that more specific agencies news are only published for agencies who pay membership, there are different package for agencies and obviously the more you pay the more your agency is featured.
 
Not surprising as it is the same case of Ruby Jean and Julia Nobis:


Bambi Northwood Blyth: Elite NY -> Ford NY
 
Was Bambi affiliated with Richard H. or the booker who specialized in new girls?
 
I believe he was Bambi's booker as well as Hannah Holman, but I wouldn't assume that just because we're seeing a bunch of Australian Elite girls at Ford that Richard is there as well.

In my opinion, he will go with whatever agency is best for his top money girls (namely Alessandra, but also Dree and Ana BB).
 
lots of drama at the ny agencies, expect more agents switching along with their models esp. @elite
 

Users who are viewing this thread

New Posts

Forum Statistics

Threads
215,577
Messages
15,308,069
Members
89,606
Latest member
Wassonreligion
Back
Top