Top Modeling Agencies
Some criteria for an agency to qualify as a top modeling agency are as follows:
1. The agency must be located in one of the top fashion capitals, for the simple reason that the most lucrative and prestigious modeling assignments can only be found there. These cities include: New York, Milan, Paris, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Rome, Los Angeles, Prague, Toronto, São Paulo and Barcelona.
2. The agency is well-known and respected in the fashion industry and has a good reputation, insofar as monitoring agencies or governing bodies in their respective country, like the Better Business Bureau in the US and the association of fashion designers and the group handling the city's fashion week.
3. The agency has directly provided a model with a lucrative assignment for a top fashion design house (for example Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, Prada, Valentino and Giorgio Armani among others).
Some of the top modeling agencies in the world are:
- Elite Model Management - New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Toronto
- Ford Models - New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Toronto, Chicago and Milwaukee
- IMG Models - New York City, Paris, London, Milan, Hong Kong
- Marilyn Agency - Paris
- Models 1 - London
- New York Model Management - New York City
- NEXT Model Management - New York City and Paris
- One Management - New York City
- Orange Model Management - Toronto, Montreal and London
- M Models and Talent Agency - Toronto
- Premier Model Management - London
- Select Model Management - London
- Storm Model Agency - London
- Viva Models - Paris, Barcelona and London
- Wilhelmina Models - New York City
- Women Model Management - New York City
- Why Not Model Agency - Milan
- Easymodelling - Geneva, Switzerland
Aside from "fashion" modeling, many agencies specialize in commercial advertising that do not require high fashion models. This can be located in any region where print ads are produced. They often fill calls for product packaging, catalogues, textbooks, billboards, etc. which require a more "real person" look or even a "character" look. Chicago, for example, has a large need for these types of models although little call for high fashion models.
Read more about this topic: Talent Agent
Famous quotes containing the words top, modeling and/or agencies:
“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.”
—Sherry Turkle (b. 1948)
“While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings—upon the spirit that animates mankind.”
—Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958)