Models Switching Agencies

[Toni Ahlgren]

I've always wondered how @Armani can do this week after week, like how it is possible to keep track of all these changes. Especially when 95% models aren't exactly top tier.

 

[tapenerd]

^She is God 💕

 

[Armani]

I've always wondered how @Armani can do this week after week, like how it is possible to keep track of all these changes. Especially when 95% models aren't exactly top tier.

A mixture of agency websites + Instagram accounts, Models.com's agency database, and switching-models.over-blog. If I get notice of a switch from an agent or model, I don't post them here until the change has been confirmed publicly through the agency in one way or another.

Meadow Walker: CAA Fashion -> Next NY. (cc; @nouvellebeaute)

Hannah Locsin: Supreme NY -> State NY.

Johanna Feldmeier: Cover -> Monster Paris.

Birgit Veegen: IMG Paris -> Monster Paris.

Awa Diallo: Women Paris -> Monster Paris.

Liu Huan: Elite London -> Select London.

Marie Teissonniere: Next London -> Linden Staub.

Dana Rumphorst: Elite Milan -> Fabbrica.

Marie Loridan: Fashion -> The Agency.

Teti Mar: The Agency -> back to Independent. (just over a month after switching to the former...)

Rianne Ten Haken: Women Milan -> The Lab.

Karyna Maziar, Mayne Filipak now with Elite NY.

Katie Robinson now with Marilyn NY.

Alice Sofia, Eva Pujatti now with Monster Paris.

Holly Nicole now with Milk.

Isabella Melo back with Women Milan.

Aaliyah Buford, Esther Heesch no longer with Next WW.

Elodie Christ no longer with The Industry NY.

Rachel Goff no longer with City.

Charlie Reynolds, Naomi Apajok (could see her moving to Select) no longer with Milk.

Megan Williams no longer with Premier.

Ksenia Lifanova no longer with Elite Milan.

 

[proseccotabis]

Thank you both, @jeremydante + @nouvellebeaute (and @tapenerd + @penny609 for the constant support & longstanding contributions on this forum!!), for your very kind words :,) As someone who's been keeping up with agencies and models alike since my high school days, I'm more than happy to do this out of love (and to stay as current as possible with updates myself, admittedly). It's become a passion project for me, and I always find myself returning to it, no matter how busy life gets at times... 😇

Here's the Milan updates I missed out on getting to yesterday:

Ala Sekula: Women Milan -> Fashion.

Lena Hamm back with Select Milan.

Izzy Cowdell now with Fabbrica.

Axelle Doue, Elise Swain, Nolwenn Marie now with Why Not.

Yanita no longer with Fashion.

Thank you so much for your work! It doesn’t go unnoticed.

 

[Armani]

Missing Milan updates - days are getting busier, so the updates are a bit slower...

Chane Husselmann: The Lions NY -> Ford NY.

Natalia Napieralska: Metropolitan -> Women/360 Paris.

Esther Heesch: Next Paris + Milan -> Monster Paris + Milan.

Elodie Christ: Select Paris -> Monster Paris.

Sofia Mathiassen now with Oui.

Agnes Lagercrantz now with Silent.

Jasmine Tookes no longer with The Lions NY.

Anna Virzi no longer with The Face.

Marika Ota no longer with M+P.

Cindy Bruna no longer with Storm London.

 

[Freespirit]

Missing Milan updates - days are getting busier, so the updates are a bit slower...

Chane Husselmann: The Lions NY -> Ford NY.

Natalia Napieralska: Metropolitan -> Women/360 Paris.

Esther Heesch: Next Paris + Milan -> Monster Paris + Milan.

Elodie Christ: Select Paris -> Monster Paris.

Sofia Mathiassen now with Oui.

Agnes Lagercrantz now with Silent.

Jasmine Tookes no longer with The Lions NY.

Anna Virzi no longer with The Face.

Marika Ota no longer with M+P.

Cindy Bruna no longer with Storm London.

Monster Paris ?? Thats gonna be very interesting!

 

[Armani]

Vitoria Mota: Next NY -> Official.

Juliette Andrews: Wilhelmina NY -> VNY.

Arya Bendkhale: Marilyn Paris -> Cover.

Bakhita Lual: Oui -> Girl.

Jessie Craig: Select Paris -> Elite Paris.

Tais Benatti: Monster Milan -> Fashion.

Stephanie Quezada: Monster Milan -> The Lab.

Tamara Bujnakova now with Women NY.

Zhiqing Chen no longer with The Claw Paris + Milan.

Ana Barbosa, Anastasiia Britsyna, Aouatif Saadi, Daira Pi, Elisa Loehr, Evgenia Dubinova, Gaia Schiralli, Iman Kaumann, Josefien Rodermans, Kailee Lawrence, Kristy Ponomar, Laura Monsalve, Venuz Lee no longer with Supreme NY.

Mia Regan no longer with Ford Paris.

Doris Aseka no longer with The Claw Paris.

 

[Armani]

Willa Devereux: One NY -> Kev.

Lina Berg: Oui -> City.

Yurima Santana: Supreme Milan -> Women Milan.

Daseul & Dasol Kim: Tank -> Fashion.

Angelika Baranska back with Metropolitan.

Katie Robinson now with The Face.

Ming Xi back with Elite London.

Sokhna Cisse now with Established.

Liu Junyao now with Kult London.

Chol Khan now with Select London.

Sara Tekle now with The Hive.

Lis Altma no longer with One NY.

Daisya Collins no longer with State NY.

Blessing Orji, Eva Wu, Linda Novotna no longer with Metropolitan.

Joy van der Eecken no longer with The Squad.

Hannah Elyse no longer with Monster.

Ana Sofia Rusanoff, Anna Yuraeva, Daniela Rivera, Greta Suaya, Guo Feng Liang, Ridwan Ibrahim, Tasha Malek no longer with Select Milan.

 

[Armani]

Kris Lopes: Supreme NY -> Marilyn NY.

Ana Barbosa: Supreme NY -> Women/360 NY.

Ieva Laguna: Elite Paris -> Metropolitan.

Cecilia Wu: Women/360 Paris -> Oui.

Beck Hume: IMG Milan -> The Agency.

Ana Oliveira: Women Milan -> Select Milan.

Ebba Moberg, Hezhizi Liu, Irene Lorenzon, Melinda Kiss, Sophie Hyldtoft now with Oui.

Zhang Yunling now with Women Paris.

Hedvig Marie Maigre no longer with The Claw Paris + Milan.

Briana Michelle no longer with The Industry NY.

Harley Walker no longer with Metropolitan.

Chane Husselmann, Charlotte Touya, Zuzanna Kaczmarek no longer with Why Not.

Joanna Koltuniak no longer with Women Milan.

 

[marsnoop2]

@nouvellebeaute is CAA Fashion imploding? Josh Otten just moved to Next, and another booker Alex Cruz moved to No Smoking.

Next Management Aims to Up the Fashion Quota for Its Talent

Josh Otten, a former executive at CAA and IMG Models, has joined the company as director of talent.

wwd.com

 

[fenty]

Let's see if No Smoking is still a thing 5 years from now

 

[Cute]

Can someone post the unpaywalled article?

 

[Armani]

Can someone post the unpaywalled article?

Next Management Aims to Up the Fashion Quota for Its Talent​

Josh Otten, a former executive at IMG Models and CAA, has joined the company as director of talent.

Next Management’s newly installed director of talent Josh Otten has mapped out his plans to make fashion a larger part of the equation.

After taking a year off, he joined Next a few weeks ago, following a five-year run at CAA, where he was one of the directors of its fashion division. Prior to that, Otten worked at IMG Models for 13 years, where he also served as a director. That latter experience in the modeling world gave him not only an unfiltered view of the fashion industry but also the opportunity to recognize the need that young musicians, actors and athletes have for “fashion representation.” Given that, he said, “At CAA, I somewhat pivoted from working with models and fashion creatives to really focus on this next generation of actors, musicians and athletes to build them up in fashion and to focus on that aspect of their career."

Eager to combine his fashion and entertainment know-how, he said Next aligned with that “vision to incorporate the model agency way of building up a talent in fashion combined with the representation of individual traditional entertainment talent.” What that boils down to is helping actors, musicians, influencers, professional, Olympic and collegiate athletes, “and anyone, who is not a model, to have fashion be a real piece of the puzzle,” Otten said.

While all of those fields fall under Next’s talent umbrella, the change is Otten’s plans to bring “the Hollywood management style into the modeling world,” he said. Not interested in limiting fashion to an endorsement deal point of view, Otten said, “That is an old-school way of looking at the fashion industry.”

With talent divisions in Paris, Milan, London, Madrid, Los Angeles and Miami, Next’s roster now includes Tommy Dorfman, Meadow Walker, Indya Moore, Corey Fogelmanis, Snow Wife and Adain Bradley. In addition, Next represents Amiah Miller, Sateen Besson, Abbey Lee, Diplo and Sage Elsesser.

At CAA, he learned “how to represent talent in a 360-degree way with their managers and agents to figure out ways that fashion can complement what these managers and agents are doing in the film space, music or whatever their core discipline may be.”

It’s not a matter of “working with celebrities, as you would a model, and just have their photos up on a website. It’s a holistic fashion approach working with their public relations teams, managers and agencies” — big or small — to figure out ways that fashion can complement their core disciplines, he said.

Indya Moore, Tommy Dorfman (obviously not models, but for the drama of it all...) : CAA Fashion -> Next NY.

Londyn Harris: JAG -> NYMM.

Aiden Curtiss: Next London -> Established.

Xia Yuancen: Viva London -> Established.

Miriam Saiz: Monster -> Why Not.

Yeva Savinykh: Next Milan -> Special.

Chane Husselmann: Why Not -> Monster.

Juli Kocemba now with Elite Milan.

Sophia Enggaard now with Why Not.

Lina Zhang no longer with Fusion. (Her NY agency since she started, no? Would be a huge win for Society if she switches there after Adut + Hoyeon.)

Diana Paskar no longer with IMG NY.

Diana Paskar no longer with Models 1.

Karo Mrozkova no longer with Elite Milan.

 

[woemwoem]

^^ Would make sense for L Zhang to go to Society since she's with Elite in Paris, Milan and a few other places, but also wouldn't surprise if she went to DNA, who is really parasitic when it comes to poaching top girls from other agencies. Sucks for Fusion who has been with her from the start, including when she really didn't work much after taking time out to start a family.

 

[Armani]

^^ Would make sense for L Zhang to go to Society since she's with Elite in Paris, Milan and a few other places, but also wouldn't surprise if she went to DNA, who is really parasitic when it comes to poaching top girls from other agencies. Sucks for Fusion who has been with her from the start, including when she really didn't work much after taking time out to start a family.

My other guess besides the aforementioned two would be Supreme, without a Parisian switch accompanying it....

 

[penny609]

Let's see if No Smoking is still a thing 5 years from now

What do they actually do? Apart from an empty Insta account and a website asking for some password, I don't see anything (even if that name strikes back to my ears over and over again for some time). Not sure that 'no communication' is still a way to work today, unless you've got nothing to communicate at all, perhaps.

 

[penny609]

Thank you @Armani for sharing the entire thing regarding Josh Otten joining Next. Just smirking at the "[he learnt to] represent talent in a 360-degree way" or at that "holistic fashion approach". I was just wondering about the lack of communication from that No Smoking thingy but this kind of ready-made wordings aren't any better...

 

[Armani]

What do they actually do? Apart from an empty Insta account and a website asking for some password, I don't see anything (even if that name strikes back to my ears over and over again for some time). Not sure that 'no communication' is still a way to work today, unless you've got nothing to communicate at all, perhaps.

I can never understand why No Smoking doesn’t maintain their website or social media accounts, though it definitely looks like they’d rather appear & operate as excessively exclusive for whatever purpose. Kyle Hagler started the agency, and is representing Anok Yai, Joan Smalls, and Karolin Wolter under it, but no other models to my knowledge. Given that Anok’s spoken out about mistreatment at Next and Joan about mistreatment at IMG, the agency could serve as a saving grace of sorts…

The Josh interview is rather hilarious when you consider how little he's actually accomplished with this maaaajoorrr industry shake-up + reimagining of the [entertainer], [creative], or [influencer] he was pushing so hard when CAA's fashion division was first introduced. Like… ok. 😕

 

[woemwoem]

No Smoking seems to be following in the footsteps of Bethann Hardison's agency from decades ago when she had a very small roster of models (mostly Tyson Beckford). Not sure how Hardison agency stayed afloat with such a limited number of models. With No Smoking Anok is raking in the bucks, presumably, but Joan Smalls is not at the same level she was just 5 years ago and Karolin models when she feels like it. It is really difficult if an agency doesn't have alliances with local agencies and mother agencies to constantly feed a pipeline of new girls.