The Model Agency Mega Thread

[Cold]

Madisyn, Carl and the rest of the team at The Lions seem like they're going a pretty good route.

Hope to see Alana Bunte, Mariana, and Ji Hye join Louie there. Their chances of doing anything relevant again might not be as good anymore.

 

[woemwoem]

^ Does it mean that some faces from Women Paris will shift to Ford?

I have no idea. Women Paris is still a very strong agency and Ford Paris just opened shop so it's too early to tell if they will be just able to poach girls from the big agencies there. Having an agency head with bona fides still means little if the rest of the booking team isn't any good and right now there's very little to go on, obviously.

 

[Cold]

Ford's manifesto is focused more on new faces. I don't see them poaching anytime soon.

 

[woemwoem]

Even with a Paris agency, Ford still needs a network of ally agencies in Europe in order to feed the new faces to Paris. In NYC, it has the other offices in LA, Chicago, Miami. Lexi came from Ford Chicago and Miriam from Ford LA. Who does it have in Moscow or Poland or the Netherlands, etc.? Or in other areas like China? It seems as though it also killed off its Supermodel of the World contest and during Rowland's time, there were reports a lot of the agencies that Ford had relationships with and who fed the SOTW contest were quite upset with Ford for the way the contest was being handled and marginalized. I don't know if those relationships have been repaired or if Ford has forged new relationships with other foreign agencies.

 

[Cold]

So far, I only know Q6 in Portland and Dulcedo in Canada. I don't know how they filter their foreign scouting either but it seems majority of their newest recruits are scouted in the US. With their Paris branch now open I think they'll slowly expand their European scouting from there.

The strongest Dutch and Danish agencies are partnered with Women/Supreme and DNA.

 

[lebigt]

Subscribed.

 

[la.vie.in.mode]

from models switching agencies thread:
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/showpost.php?p=12181231&postcount=327

 

[Freespirit]

Nathalie Models rumor ??

On switching models website i saw this info:

Women/Supreme and Elite/The Society part of the same group now in Paris and NY, Women Milan being not part of this deal, IMG bought by William Morris Agency, a new Ford agency to be launched soon in Paris, The Lions NY with now Ali Kavoussi+Louie Chaban, Next NY with Kyle Hagler as new President, new Special Bookings division at Elite London, rumor on the Nathalie/Women union in Paris... 2014 should be full of surprises !

Can someone shed light on the mentioned in red message ? Nathalie/Women rumor ????

 

[pellucid]

Agency News

Nathalie Models will be merging with Women Paris. Nathalie Cros-Coitton, owner and founder of Nathalie models, will be running the newly merged Parisian agency. The company owns a majority stake in Elite Model Management, which owns the powerful Elite Paris-Society NY network. Right as the New York agency shake-ups seem to be dying down, now it seems like Paris is in for quite a few changes…

The Nathalie girls will join Women on their own board, and gradually all the girls will be phased into Women Management.

modelnewsdaily

 

[Freespirit]

Wowwww never seen that one coming. Nathalie is such a cool agency here in Europe... oh well
Explains why Malaika jumped ship to another agency...

modelnewsdaily

 

[woemwoem]

Wait a minute. The owner of Nathalie owns a majority stake in Elite Worldwide, whose owner just bought Elite Paris/Women NY/Supreme/Society? So now Women, Supreme and Society in NY, as well as Elite Paris/WomenParis/Nathalie are owned by the same company?
Whoa, that is meta.

 

[Cold]

NYMM is bound to lose all their stars to Women with this merge.

 

[mainstay]

NYMM is bound to lose all their stars to Women with this merge.

I highly doubt that. If any of this is true, this will only strengthen NYMM as they have the strongest relationship with Nathalie in Paris. Women has girls spread around Paris as it is.

 

[Freespirit]

NYMM is bound to lose all their stars to Women with this merge.

wouldn't it be interesting if NYMM merged into women nyc ?

all is possible...just saying

 

[mainstay]

Received this via e-mail:

PGM GROUP announces its intention to merge its model management businesses of NATHALIE and WOMEN MANAGEMENT PARIS in a combined agency.

The Group's objective is to reinforce its strategy by building a strong network in the luxury and fashion segments. Given the strong synergies between NATHALIE and WOMEN MANAGEMENT PARIS, PGM will leverage on the strength of the two agencies with the final goal of ultimately merging the two operations, valuing the important relationships with all current stakeholders and partners.

"Since Women Management is such an iconic agency with a strong vision, I am thrilled to uphold the spirit, which made Nathalie well-known, with this even greater combination of agencies. The possibilities for growth with these two solid teams working together are outstanding. We will continue to provide the best service while fully respecting existing commercial relationships. It is truly a win-win situation from which Nathalie, Women and all their partners and collaborators will benefit", said Nathalie Cros Coitton, founder and director of NATHALIE, who will assume the role of Managing Director of the combined businesses.

From February 10 2014, the two offices will be centralized at the WOMEN MANAGEMENT PARIS offices (7, Bd de la Madeleine 75008 Paris). The transition will be a smooth and seamless process as the models, partners and clients of both firms will continue to work with the same people they have in the past.

We are all truly excited about the potential for the power combination to build in the years to come.


Best regards,


Stefania Valenti
PACIFIC GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
Group Chief Executive Officer



PGM is a talent management company focused on fashion services and luxury brands. Quality permeates the Group’s business. Its success is built on a consistent strategy of pursuing excellence through intra-group synergies, global growth, and a management style that nurtures heritage, ethical values, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Opened in 1999, WOMEN MANAGEMENT PARIS is the youngest branch of the WOMEN MANAGEMENT network. The agency's philosophy is to maintain the aesthetic vision that made WOMEN MANAGEMENT known and respected by the fashion industry. The goal of WOMEN MANAGEMENT PARIS is to create, establish, and maintain the careers of supermodels.

Part of PGM Group since 2005, NATHALIE was founded in 1995 and has over the years become the leading boutique agency in Paris. The agency has earned the reputation of providing strong and personalized management, it represents nowadays some of the most in demand faces in the industry.

 

[woemwoem]

The idea of Nathalie and Women Paris operating as two independent but allied agencies in the same market seemed unfeasible from the get go. We should expect Society and Women NYC to make a similar announcement sooner rather than later.
Now with Nathalie and Women Paris one agency, NY Model Management has lost its valuable Parisian pipeline. Nathalie/Women will most likely become part of Elite Worldwide and become a feeder network to Society/Women NYC. I expect to see more consolidation in NYC among firms like NYMM, Elite, One, the Lions, Ford, Marilyn, Silent, etc., the second tier agencies in order to create a critical mass. It will be required for some of these agencies in order to stay around.

 

[Freespirit]

yes woemwoem, its going to be very interesting to see how for instance NYMM is going to handling this situation.

Ford Models is opening shop in Paris, and probably will try to set up good ties with european agencies to attract promising new faces for their Paris & NYC office, I believe they have a former women management booker handling their business. So they are going the NEXT/MARILYN/IMG route

Women/Nathalie Paris/Elite 'conglomerate' already have super good relationships with many european agencies providing them with the faces of the future who will get the big shows/campaigns.

DNA/VIVA are fairing well together already and will probably need to continue to do so...they have no other choice i guess.

So that leaves OUI management or Silent as interesting partner for some NYC agencies...

I mean this as agency partnership/alliances for top new faces and potential stars for the big brands.. not your middle of the road model..

Interesting times indeed to stay on top.

 

[Cold]

The Lions have some pretty big propositions in the works. So far their strongest network is Silent in Paris.

 

[kab348]

Had heard Paul Rowland was starting an agency but couldn't post without evidence or frankly belief but this was on Yulya Shavyrina instagram this afternoon. Anyone know anything?

 

[la.vie.in.mode]

wow interesting news... anyone knows something?