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She's doing NAF NAF campaign !
Very nice pics where I've noticed her for the first time !!
For more pics go to / all pics are from
http://www.nafnafgroup.com
Very nice pics where I've noticed her for the first time !!
For more pics go to / all pics are from
http://www.nafnafgroup.com
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Flare (CA) March 2005
Dress Revival
Photography by Michael Williams
Morgan Hanbury
www.bwgreyscale.com
Dress Revival
Photography by Michael Williams
Morgan Hanbury
www.bwgreyscale.com
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The Handbury Tale
November 2004
Morgan Handbury's Buffalo Jeans
billboard overlooking Times Square
Even in New York's Paramount Hotel - temporary home to a lot of beautiful, stylish, young women - when Morgan Handbury enters the lobby there's no doubt who the model is.
Tall, thin and graceful, in person Morgan only somewhat resembles the picture on the Buffalo Jeans billboard in Times Square. But it's definitely the same girl that shows up in the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue and was modelling Victoria's Secret's new line on ABC's The View, last week.
Most followers of the industry wouldn't know Morgan's name. Although she's been modelling internationally for years, she's managed to make a good living without making the splash other Canadians have made.
Her story could have begun when she was 15. At the time she was repeatedly approached by scouts and agents in Toronto malls. But at the time it didn't feel right. "I was a late bloomer. I wasn't ready and my mom was against it, saying I had to finish high school first."
Two years later, high school complete, interest in the redhead hadn't waned. She was stopped twice in one day by scouts from different agencies and decided the time was right. "I went around to all the agencies, and decided on B&M." She's been with them ever since.
After modelling successfully in Toronto, South Africa, Asia and Europe, Morgan first came to New York following September 11th. It ended up being an incredibly difficult time. The agency she had worked with in Paris had shut its doors, denying Morgan thousands of dollars in owed commissions and leaving her so broke she was washing her clothes in the sink and not eating. "There was no work, the city was dead -- and of course I thought it was just me."
"At one point I hadn't eaten in three days, and across the street was a little Chinese bakery where they made these buns - pineapple buns they called them - which were 60 cents. I had 20 cents American but lots of Canadian change, so I took the Canadian coins and put them in dirt so they couldn't see it was Canadian. I went over and said 'I'll take this bun' and threw the money in his hand and ran away."
"I called my mom that night and said 'I can't do this anymore.'"
"And the thing is, the guy at the bakery loved me and I'm sure I could have had free stuff. Or I could have gone out with promoters and eaten for free, but when you're down and out the last thing you want to do is go for dinner. I just wanted to sit in my own apartment and cry myself to sleep."
"So I figured if you can't make it in New York, get out and go somewhere where you did work." Morgan left Manhattan and didn't return until last year.
The lure of the world's richest modelling market brought Morgan Handbury back to Manhattan last September, and she still thinks it's an honour to be working there. As she tells the story, living in New York isn't as difficult as constantly travelling and living out of a suitcase. But it is "so lonely."
"When you first come here you're poor and everyone is so fake. People only want to be friends if you can give them something."
"It's easy for models to party here, but you're only popular until a whole new group of girls come in, and then you're done. You either can do it or you can't. I've seen girls crack."
For Morgan to find success in New York this time, finding the right agency was obviously important, so she set aside one week to visit all the agencies in person. "I went into Supreme during fashion week, and Roman [Young] said 'we really like you but no one takes new models during fashion week. We want to wait.' I really liked them, but I thought I would end up with New York Models - they're edgy but also commercial - they're a good agency."
"But Roman called me that night and said 'We've been talking about you all day and we'd like you to join.' I like that they thought about it. They didn't just say 'sign a contract - we need another girl.' A lot of agencies will take a lot of girls and make money off charges, and make money off this and that. I didn't want to be with a big agency - I wanted something more like B&M. I wanted something in New York's top five, which Supreme is."
Her decision seems to be paying off. She's busier now than she ever has been. In trying to arrange our interview, I first reached her in San Francisco where she was running to catch a flight back to New York for another booking. The week before she was in San Jose - for a few hours - before flying back to New York for a booking. In addition to the Buffalo Jeans campaign she's done Abercrombie & Fitch, US Glamour Magazine and Nylon Magazine to name but a few.
"Oh my God… lately I've been so happy to have any weekends off." Weekend off? Even on the Saturday we met to talk about modelling, she delayed our chat so she could get to the gym. "In New York you can work everyday, especially when you're a new model because you do tests on the weekend even though you've been working all week."
Now, although she would like to slow down, the opportunities keep her going. "It's stupid but I've just started to make good money. Until now it was good travel and good fun, but now that I'm making good money it's hard to imagine leaving the business."
"The thing with New York is the rent is really expensive - you can't even believe it - but everything else is cheap if you know how to do it. You buy your food from a deli, get a $20 metro card that lasts a week - and as a model you make that back in a day with all your castings. You don't need a car, so you don't worry about gas or insurance."
"Now that I'm here I'm really appreciating it because there's great shopping, great restaurants, great subways… I would never have a family and settle here, but for now I'm making American dollars. You have to live poor here for a while, to really appreciate it when you start to get money.
MORGAN HANDBURY
Agency: B&M Models, Toronto; Supreme, New York
Astrological Sign: Cancer
Q: Favourite campaign you've done
A: Buffalo Jeans. It was awesome, because it's a Canadian campaign but they cast it here. Shooting something for Canada is really special for me. I got to go to Montreal and shoot with these amazing photographers. We went to this mining town up north for a week and it was great. The catalogue is stunning. I don't really like a lot of pictures of myself, but those all came back so beautiful.
Q: Favourite all-time Model:
A: Kate Moss. She made modelling a little less pretty.
Q: Favourite of the newer models:
A: Natalila Vodianova or Daria Werbowy
Q: Always travels with:
A: Lots of shoes and clothes. You have to learn how to pack into one suitcase. That's the trick.
Q: Best beauty secret:
A: Always wear cream on your face against the sun, even in the winter. I use Oil of Olay, everyday.
Q: Staying in shape:
A: Go to the gym, eat right. I don't eat desert. But if you're craving something, have it.
Q: Best thing about modelling:
A: The best part of modelling is the travel. I once shot a bridal thing, where we did a Club Med cruise to a different island every day. And I mean - they're paying me to travel! Are you crazy?
Q: Best place you've visited:
A: South Africa.
Q: Best thing about New York:
A: The shopping! Whenever I have a break between castings, I'm shopping.
Q: Worst thing about New York:
A: It's a hard city. It's really tough on you. It's dirty. There's no space.
Q: How much longer in New York:
A: I'd like to stay for another year. If it's longer, that's fine. Maybe two years, but I want to get out and travel.
Q: Will you continue with modelling after New York?
A: I would love NOT to, in a way, but it's good money.
Q: Your next career:
A: Now that I've been modelling I could never work for anybody else. I could never do the 9-to-5 thing. I'd have to open my own business like a wine bar or something, in a city not as big as New York - like Toronto.
MORGAN HANDBURY on:
Advice for new models:
Don't start young - finish high school. I don't care what anybody says in this business, if you can't finish high school first you shouldn't be modelling. Things can change quickly. When you turn 18 you might not be able to model anymore - you're hips have gotten big, or your face changes, or any normal thing - what are you going to do? If you're going to start young, stay in your home town - don't travel to New York.
High school for me was the best years of my life. It would suck to give it up, just to model. Those years are really important, when you have your first crush and first kiss and all that stuff. You don't have to be old -- seventeen - start from there.
Advice for working models
Have fun with it because it might end tomorrow. Go travel. Try to make as much money as you can.
Finding an agency in New York
If you're lucky a few will like you. A lot will say no even to the most beautiful girl. It's such a hard industry. I had about four that showed interest, so I chose from there.
Nudity
If you're comfortable with it, do it.
I'm really strong, and I know what I will do, so if someone says 'take your top off' I have no problem saying no. And I don't care what they say. Abercrombie & Fitch asked me to go nude. Why would you want to go nude for Abercrombie & Fitch?
I know girls that came home crying because they got naked, and they didn't want to. They got touched in a weird way. If you don't like it and you don't feel comfortable, don't do it. Who cares what they say? Let them call your agency.
In Paris, they're mean. They yell 'What's wrong with you? Take your top off. It will be beautiful.' I just tell them I don't care.
Especially at castings I don't understand why they ask you to take your top off. They aren't even paying you yet. But some girls will get naked and they don't know where those pictures are going.
Why Canadians are so successful
Personality. Canadians are really friendly, down-to-earth and fun. Everywhere I travel people love Canadians. I'm not the most beautiful girl, but I think Canadians are doing well because of their attitudes. Like Daria - she stayed real, which is really difficult in this industry. You've got to hand it to her.
B&M Models in Toronto
They're a great agency for me, because here in New York I'm with Supreme, and they're strong and they're powerful, but with B&M I call them when I need advice.
Supreme Models in New York:
I'm really lucky, because I love the way Supreme treats me.
The current redhead craze:
I think redheads look really good with bangs. In New York they are big - and in Europe - and I really hope they don't get too big because it's great to be the token redhead in the city. I've always called myself the token redhead.
Getting to the gym:
For any model, even if you've got a great body - even if you're 15 - you should be going at least four times a week.
Source: Model Resource
November 2004
Morgan Handbury's Buffalo Jeans
billboard overlooking Times Square
Even in New York's Paramount Hotel - temporary home to a lot of beautiful, stylish, young women - when Morgan Handbury enters the lobby there's no doubt who the model is.
Tall, thin and graceful, in person Morgan only somewhat resembles the picture on the Buffalo Jeans billboard in Times Square. But it's definitely the same girl that shows up in the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue and was modelling Victoria's Secret's new line on ABC's The View, last week.
Most followers of the industry wouldn't know Morgan's name. Although she's been modelling internationally for years, she's managed to make a good living without making the splash other Canadians have made.
Her story could have begun when she was 15. At the time she was repeatedly approached by scouts and agents in Toronto malls. But at the time it didn't feel right. "I was a late bloomer. I wasn't ready and my mom was against it, saying I had to finish high school first."
Two years later, high school complete, interest in the redhead hadn't waned. She was stopped twice in one day by scouts from different agencies and decided the time was right. "I went around to all the agencies, and decided on B&M." She's been with them ever since.
After modelling successfully in Toronto, South Africa, Asia and Europe, Morgan first came to New York following September 11th. It ended up being an incredibly difficult time. The agency she had worked with in Paris had shut its doors, denying Morgan thousands of dollars in owed commissions and leaving her so broke she was washing her clothes in the sink and not eating. "There was no work, the city was dead -- and of course I thought it was just me."
"At one point I hadn't eaten in three days, and across the street was a little Chinese bakery where they made these buns - pineapple buns they called them - which were 60 cents. I had 20 cents American but lots of Canadian change, so I took the Canadian coins and put them in dirt so they couldn't see it was Canadian. I went over and said 'I'll take this bun' and threw the money in his hand and ran away."
"I called my mom that night and said 'I can't do this anymore.'"
"And the thing is, the guy at the bakery loved me and I'm sure I could have had free stuff. Or I could have gone out with promoters and eaten for free, but when you're down and out the last thing you want to do is go for dinner. I just wanted to sit in my own apartment and cry myself to sleep."
"So I figured if you can't make it in New York, get out and go somewhere where you did work." Morgan left Manhattan and didn't return until last year.
The lure of the world's richest modelling market brought Morgan Handbury back to Manhattan last September, and she still thinks it's an honour to be working there. As she tells the story, living in New York isn't as difficult as constantly travelling and living out of a suitcase. But it is "so lonely."
"When you first come here you're poor and everyone is so fake. People only want to be friends if you can give them something."
"It's easy for models to party here, but you're only popular until a whole new group of girls come in, and then you're done. You either can do it or you can't. I've seen girls crack."
For Morgan to find success in New York this time, finding the right agency was obviously important, so she set aside one week to visit all the agencies in person. "I went into Supreme during fashion week, and Roman [Young] said 'we really like you but no one takes new models during fashion week. We want to wait.' I really liked them, but I thought I would end up with New York Models - they're edgy but also commercial - they're a good agency."
"But Roman called me that night and said 'We've been talking about you all day and we'd like you to join.' I like that they thought about it. They didn't just say 'sign a contract - we need another girl.' A lot of agencies will take a lot of girls and make money off charges, and make money off this and that. I didn't want to be with a big agency - I wanted something more like B&M. I wanted something in New York's top five, which Supreme is."
Her decision seems to be paying off. She's busier now than she ever has been. In trying to arrange our interview, I first reached her in San Francisco where she was running to catch a flight back to New York for another booking. The week before she was in San Jose - for a few hours - before flying back to New York for a booking. In addition to the Buffalo Jeans campaign she's done Abercrombie & Fitch, US Glamour Magazine and Nylon Magazine to name but a few.
"Oh my God… lately I've been so happy to have any weekends off." Weekend off? Even on the Saturday we met to talk about modelling, she delayed our chat so she could get to the gym. "In New York you can work everyday, especially when you're a new model because you do tests on the weekend even though you've been working all week."
Now, although she would like to slow down, the opportunities keep her going. "It's stupid but I've just started to make good money. Until now it was good travel and good fun, but now that I'm making good money it's hard to imagine leaving the business."
"The thing with New York is the rent is really expensive - you can't even believe it - but everything else is cheap if you know how to do it. You buy your food from a deli, get a $20 metro card that lasts a week - and as a model you make that back in a day with all your castings. You don't need a car, so you don't worry about gas or insurance."
"Now that I'm here I'm really appreciating it because there's great shopping, great restaurants, great subways… I would never have a family and settle here, but for now I'm making American dollars. You have to live poor here for a while, to really appreciate it when you start to get money.
MORGAN HANDBURY
Agency: B&M Models, Toronto; Supreme, New York
Astrological Sign: Cancer
Q: Favourite campaign you've done
A: Buffalo Jeans. It was awesome, because it's a Canadian campaign but they cast it here. Shooting something for Canada is really special for me. I got to go to Montreal and shoot with these amazing photographers. We went to this mining town up north for a week and it was great. The catalogue is stunning. I don't really like a lot of pictures of myself, but those all came back so beautiful.
Q: Favourite all-time Model:
A: Kate Moss. She made modelling a little less pretty.
Q: Favourite of the newer models:
A: Natalila Vodianova or Daria Werbowy
Q: Always travels with:
A: Lots of shoes and clothes. You have to learn how to pack into one suitcase. That's the trick.
Q: Best beauty secret:
A: Always wear cream on your face against the sun, even in the winter. I use Oil of Olay, everyday.
Q: Staying in shape:
A: Go to the gym, eat right. I don't eat desert. But if you're craving something, have it.
Q: Best thing about modelling:
A: The best part of modelling is the travel. I once shot a bridal thing, where we did a Club Med cruise to a different island every day. And I mean - they're paying me to travel! Are you crazy?
Q: Best place you've visited:
A: South Africa.
Q: Best thing about New York:
A: The shopping! Whenever I have a break between castings, I'm shopping.
Q: Worst thing about New York:
A: It's a hard city. It's really tough on you. It's dirty. There's no space.
Q: How much longer in New York:
A: I'd like to stay for another year. If it's longer, that's fine. Maybe two years, but I want to get out and travel.
Q: Will you continue with modelling after New York?
A: I would love NOT to, in a way, but it's good money.
Q: Your next career:
A: Now that I've been modelling I could never work for anybody else. I could never do the 9-to-5 thing. I'd have to open my own business like a wine bar or something, in a city not as big as New York - like Toronto.
MORGAN HANDBURY on:
Advice for new models:
Don't start young - finish high school. I don't care what anybody says in this business, if you can't finish high school first you shouldn't be modelling. Things can change quickly. When you turn 18 you might not be able to model anymore - you're hips have gotten big, or your face changes, or any normal thing - what are you going to do? If you're going to start young, stay in your home town - don't travel to New York.
High school for me was the best years of my life. It would suck to give it up, just to model. Those years are really important, when you have your first crush and first kiss and all that stuff. You don't have to be old -- seventeen - start from there.
Advice for working models
Have fun with it because it might end tomorrow. Go travel. Try to make as much money as you can.
Finding an agency in New York
If you're lucky a few will like you. A lot will say no even to the most beautiful girl. It's such a hard industry. I had about four that showed interest, so I chose from there.
Nudity
If you're comfortable with it, do it.
I'm really strong, and I know what I will do, so if someone says 'take your top off' I have no problem saying no. And I don't care what they say. Abercrombie & Fitch asked me to go nude. Why would you want to go nude for Abercrombie & Fitch?
I know girls that came home crying because they got naked, and they didn't want to. They got touched in a weird way. If you don't like it and you don't feel comfortable, don't do it. Who cares what they say? Let them call your agency.
In Paris, they're mean. They yell 'What's wrong with you? Take your top off. It will be beautiful.' I just tell them I don't care.
Especially at castings I don't understand why they ask you to take your top off. They aren't even paying you yet. But some girls will get naked and they don't know where those pictures are going.
Why Canadians are so successful
Personality. Canadians are really friendly, down-to-earth and fun. Everywhere I travel people love Canadians. I'm not the most beautiful girl, but I think Canadians are doing well because of their attitudes. Like Daria - she stayed real, which is really difficult in this industry. You've got to hand it to her.
B&M Models in Toronto
They're a great agency for me, because here in New York I'm with Supreme, and they're strong and they're powerful, but with B&M I call them when I need advice.
Supreme Models in New York:
I'm really lucky, because I love the way Supreme treats me.
The current redhead craze:
I think redheads look really good with bangs. In New York they are big - and in Europe - and I really hope they don't get too big because it's great to be the token redhead in the city. I've always called myself the token redhead.
Getting to the gym:
For any model, even if you've got a great body - even if you're 15 - you should be going at least four times a week.
Source: Model Resource
I like her the first time I saw her. There is not enought natural redhair models. Monica Vaughan (also canadian) is really pretty. When my scanner will be ready, I will scan some other pix of her. She should have had more exposure. She lots better than some of the hot girls right now.
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All from Fashion Model Directory, except the last one...it's from Modelresource.
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From Fashion Model Directory and the B&M Models website.
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David Bitton Buffalo ad with Morgan.
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