V/Supreme Model Search: The Finalists

[Chalice]

A "mother agency" contract is international. The agency won't promote a girl internationally without one.

The non-NY agency's purpose in life is to get girls signed in NY, so they certainly intend to get their cut, and the contract has to be binding and enforceable.

The wording was very clear:

Models under contract with a modeling agency or who have earned more than $25,000 in modeling fees in any one year during the last ten years are ineligible.

note it's

or

not

and

I was actually HAPPY to see the girls we call "ringers", especially the Canadian ones. Obviously Supreme prefers the foreign models to have a mother agency. I was wondering if it would have been better for Canadians to go to NY directly, and save them the 10%.

 

[iluvjeisa]

I like Samantha. She was the only one of them who got a lot of interesting shades on her face, though, while the others received more natural light.

 

[yellowetpink]

I like a few of them. To say I think it's silly that they are so young is wrong, because I'd be saying it out of jealousy that I couldn't do that.

May the best win

 

[novella]

As I said a dozen times before in the last thread....
IF ANYONE HAD ACTUALLY READ THE RULES AND GUIDELINES TO THE CONTEST!!
You would notice that it clearly states the girls running on the website are not the only ones. Models could enter by snailmail, email, go in person, whatever. The votes on the website are only "popular vote" and that means whoever won that would get selected to simply do a shoot in NY and yadda yadda. Not sign a contract with the agency. Do you honestly think the agency would just allow random unprofessional people on the internet to select who they should sign for them to market? That's insane. So the online stuff doesn't count in the real run, it was more or less just V's advertising. Supreme had full rights to sign girls who didn't receive a single vote because they're the judges, not the voters.
Votes = popular vote for prizes
Judges for actual contracts = the agency
so no, just because the girls everyone voted for didn't get picked doesn't mean it was rigged. Just means you didn't read the info about said contest.

Actually, I read the rules and guidelines. The rules stated that you couldn't be under contract with an agency. It's fine if a contestant was with an agency prior the contest, but she still has to be unsigned and earned less than "$25,000 in modeling fees in any one year during the last ten years."

As some adept posters have pointed out, some of the finalists were already signed with agencies, that Kasia is probably Polish and she is/was with a Polish agency. Poland is a country that's ineligible to compete in the contest. She could be Latvian, but some of us doubt it.

Moreover, some of the finalists were removed from their agency's blog or web site as *Bianca* reported earlier in this thread. I personally think that looks pretty shady.

Of course Supreme has the right to pick and choose who they want for their agency! These contests do give Supreme publicity, but it's a double-edged sword as it also brings unwanted attention from the wannabes that are too old, too short etc. I agree that it would have been better that they didn't encourage the ones who clearly don't make the cut during the popular vote. To be fair, that part of the contest was free reign and it's another part of the competition. As Chalice said so eloquently, "It's not that the winner was pre-selected was the issue, it's that Supreme ran a public contest and then took winners from its usual source of models, the agencies. Boooring...."

We're all entitled to our opinion and I think there is some merit to what I'm saying. I stand by what I said---I'm just glad that I wasn't the only one who felt that way!

 

[smokebreak]

"Moreover, some of the finalists were removed from their agency's blog or web site as *Bianca* reported earlier in this thread. I personally think that looks pretty shady."

When a model is released from a contract with an agency it could take anywhere from a day to a few months to remove the model from their websites. The agency would not benefit from removing a model from their website if she was still with them and I highly doubt they would care that much about covering their ***es to remove her for the sake of a contest.
What I'm saying is they probably let her go. She could have canceled the contract, they could have made arrangements for her to go to Supreme and they would then act as financial mother agent but not physical (meaning they get a cut of the percentage for basically finding her but they do not represent her to clients and give full control to Supreme) Even quitting from the agency and then resigning with them after the thing was over would make more sense

 

[|PerfectTonight|]

Yeah and the funny thing is that everything happens within the same time range. Oooops!

 

[*Bianca*]

The agency would not benefit from removing a model from their website if she was still with them and I highly doubt they would care that much about covering their ***es to remove her for the sake of a contest.

Eh I dunno, but it was hinted at in her thread by someone who seems to have strong connections with Avant that she was removed to stop "conspiracy theories".

Anyway, it's all said and done now.

I'm hoping some of the other girls will get signed to NY agencies this year too, particularly Amanda and Sam.

I've started to notice some of the non-finalists pop up on smaller agency sites...but it's possible they were there all along and I just didn't notice them.

 

[Chatoyant]

Eh I dunno, but it was hinted at in her thread by someone who seems to have strong connections with Avant that she was removed to stop "conspiracy theories".

Yes, someone from Avant, I've been told by a reliable source.

The same person who started Kasia's thread like this...

height: 179 cm
bust: 82 cm
waist: 60 cm
hips: 85 cm

age: 15
nationality: Polish

Agency: Avant Warsaw http://avantmodels.pl

 

[Chatoyant]

But whatever, all these competitions are rigged to some degree.

 

[novella]

^ Exactly!

Anyway, it is said and done. I really saw a lot of potential in Amanda and I hope that she'll get signed soon if she hasn't already.

 

[*Bianca*]

Amanda is now up on Supreme's site!

 

[samanthay]

I actually really like Kasia's look. Very pretty and Amanda was nice, as well!

 

[Fontenrose]

According to modelresource.ca today, Amanda won the search:

And here she goes...

In December Modelresource made mention of the fact that three Canadians were among the top five in the V Magazine / Supreme Management model search.

The winner of that contest was Elmer Olsen's Amanda Laine, a 15-year-old from Central Ontario, that was discovered at a high school basketball game, by the mother of Audrey Gair.

After four days of shooting the looks for Prada, Laine was whisked off to Milan on a last minute confirmation, and made her Milan debut just yesterday afternoon.

Pretty cool, eh?

Keep watching this one

catwalking via modelresource.ca

 

[|PerfectTonight|]

So happy for Amanda!
I was rooting for her totally. How many of the contestants did Supreme sign? 2-3?

 

[1FashionVictim]

I think it was only Kasia and Amanda.

 

[Destined]

She's pretty

 

[|PerfectTonight|]

02.26.08 WINNER'S CIRCLE
Meet Amanda Laine, winner of the 2007 V A Model! search. Miuccia and Nicolas are already entranced

There’s reality fashion, and then there’s the reality of fashion. Just two months after she first set foot in New York City, Amanda Laine, the 16-year-old Canadian winner of the 2007 V A Model! Search, is already staking out a name for herself on the European runways. After star turns in Milan at Prada and Marni last week, Amanda sealed the deal this morning when she took look five at Balenciaga in Paris. And that's not the last you'll see of her in city of love and light—but mum's the word for now.

As the grand prize winner of V A Model!, Amanda receives a three-year contract with Supreme Management, as well as a shoot to be published in V—to be photographed as soon as she gets off the international catwalk circuit. You're witnessing the meteoric rise of a new fashion face. Stay tuned for part two of the star factory in September 2008.

Amanda Laine backstage at Marni and Prada, Fall/Winter 2008
Photography Greg Kessler

Beautiful!

 

[Destined]

that close up is fantastic!

 

[The Clotheshorse]

amanda is totally taking over the world!
opened mcqueen and miu miu,
closed vuitton!
WOWOWOW

 

[*Bianca*]

And it begins again! I hope they handle it better this time around

Starts May 15, 2008 and ends July 16, 2008

http://www.vmagazine.com/vamodel_intro.php