Phoebe Soremekun

Video | IMG Models

IMG Model Agency have their own YouTube video of some of their models and here it is....

Stunning Stunning | Honorine Uwera

Honorine Uwera's Career Highlights

1987

Born in Rwanda

OCT 2004

Debuts at the spring Akris, Costume National, Viktor & Rolf, and Yves Saint Laurent shows in Paris

2006

Appears in Nordstrom catalog

SEP 2006

Appears in Elle editorial

SEP 2006

Walks the spring Catherine Malandrino and Marc Jacobs shows in New York

OCT 2006

Walks the 30-year retrospective of Jean Paul Gaultier in Paris, wearing a gold lamé bodysuit from his 1992 collection

OCT 2006

Photographed by Steven Klein for Italian Vogue

2007

Appears in Nordstrom catalog

MAY 2007

Featured in Trace

JUL 2007

Appears in Mixte editorial

2007

Photographed by Peter Lindbergh for Moschino fall ad campaign

2007

Face of Moschino Hours & Minutes fall ad campaign

14 SEP, 2007

Attends the “Blacks in Fashion” discussion at Bryant Park Hotel with Iman and Naomi Campbell

The Top UK Model Agencies

From www.TellMeHowTo.net

If you really want to go far in modelling, you will need to get in touch with a major modelling agency. This is a key fact you need to grasp for modelling success.

UK Model Agencies

These modelling agencies all tend to be based in the London vicinity in the United Kingdom, and are as follows:

Select, Take Two, IMG, Models 1, Elite and Storm (amongst many others). The worldwide agencies that you might have heard of include names such as IMG, Ford, Next, Elite and Metropolitan.

There are also a vast array of smaller agencies that are always on the look out for fresh faces and fresh talent.

Useful modelling information

A useful resource for you may be:
The Association of Model Agents
122 Brompton Road,
London,
SW3 1JD

(for those readers that are UK based and an aspiring model) - they have a telephone information line at 0891 517 644. If you don't call, you will never know!

Britain's Next Top Model Launches

I love both the America's Next Top Model and Britain's Next Top Model shows and here's a clip from Episode 1 for you to enjoy.

Times Online | Top 20 Fashion Twitterers

It is unlikely that, when Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone set up their website, they profiled Diane von Furstenberg as a vociferous user.

But Twitter, just like Seventies NHS-style glasses, has started a recent love affair with fashionistas. Henry Holland, French Vogue and even stylist Rachel Zoe are on there, and here at Times Fashion towers, we have seen our followers surge over 11,000 users in just three months – all proving that its now fashionable to be internet geek. Using our unique knowledge, we have collated our top 20 fashion twitterers. They are a combination of our choices and those recommended to us by our platform-wearing army of followers.

1. Chic in Paris: twitter.com/chicinparis

Susan Tabak is a veteran style reporter who puts her contemporaries to shame on Twitter. Based in New York the author regularly reports gossip from parties, catwalks and even posted a picture of the diamond (we assume) earrings – a gift from her husband for their 25th wedding anniversary.
Sample Tweet: On my way to Chatulle Restaurant in Milan. I have never been before. Omg just David Beckham. He said hi to me. I nearly fainted.

2. Henry Holland: twitter.com/henryholland

Designer Mr Holland, the embodiment of all that is cool, trendy and current in the UK today, uses his Twitter to give readers an insight into his oh-so-now life. Reports from parties, LA restaurants and his shows drop celebrity names and reveal his concerns over a developing Blackberry addiction.
Sample Tweet: Just dancing in an aircraft hanger with Paris and Simon Rex really not much goin on

3. InsideDVF: twitter.com/InsideDVF

Diane Von Furstenburg is arguably the most web-savvy of all the big-name designers, with an active website showing backstage videos from her shows, a blog providing style tips and a ‘fan of the week’. The tweeting is no different.
Sample Tweet: Its official. DVF Fall 09- a dazzling progression of modern seductive nomad women- agree with diana ross's standing ovation

4. Fake Karl: twitter.com/fakekarl

The clue is in the name – this isn’t Karl Lagerfeld but rather someone imagining what the enigmatic designer would tweet. FakeKarl is in close contact with fakeanna (Wintour, that is)
Sample tweet: Travelling on my Chanel Broomstick. Even the sun is quilted
Second sample tweet: i looked into the mirror today and noticed i had no soul. nevermind

5. Show Studio: twitter.com/SHOWstudio

Show Studio is a fashion website set up by photographer Nick Knight. The Twitter feed has musings from reporters and up-to-the-minute reports and pictures from press days.
Sample tweet: Pressing issues once again today - in an hour or so we're heading to sample the coquettish delights of Marc Jacob's Louis Vuitton collection

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Kate Moss | Few Pounds Going In Right Places

Catherine over at the Frisky reports:  Over the past few months, Kate Moss’ body has been changing, and everyone, including Kate, has noticed. Back in February, Kate told New York that her body was finally developing. “I am a woman now! It’s true. No, honestly, I’ve never worn a bra in my life. Ever! It’s so awful, even my friends are phoning me up and saying Are you pregnant?’ And I’m like, ‘No! I just put on a couple of pounds, and they went in the right place.’” At the Topshop opening in New York last month, photos of Kate in a clingy green dress made us wonder again: Is Kate pregnant, or is she putting on more weight?

Charlotte Hilton Andersen hopes Kate’s added pounds aren’t a publicity stunt or an attempt to hide a pregnancy, but a sign that our society is coming to its senses about the absurd standards we’ve set for women’s bodies. Can Kate make fat cool? Considering the girl’s still not the least bit fat, we think not. Provided she doesn’t take the usual celebrity route, and immediately lose all of her extra weight and “make a comeback,” or claim she’s a size 00, she’s setting a good example for women by being honest about her body. She has gained weight since her waif days, but she’s 35! She gave birth! Her metabolism isn’t what it used to be! And she’s not denying it or taking extreme measures (yet) to get back her body.

READ MORE HERE >>>

It's Either This Or Babysitting!

Modeling Agency 'Storms' New Media

www.YPulse.com reports:

Posted by casey on 09-09-2008

No matter how smart she is, no matter how many interests and hobbies she has, nearly every adolescent girl goes through a stage where she wonders what her life would be like if she was a model… and secretly wonders if she'll have an unexpected growth spurt and wake up tomorrow morning as a leggy six-foot catwalker. And it does happen, albeit rarely. A tiny number of "genetically correct" [by today's modeling standards] people graduate from high school, and instead of heading to college like most, jaunt to Milan, Paris, London, and New York to lead an unimaginable existence as a jetsetting supermodel. Stormstyle.com wants to appeal to the millions of girls who will only dream about such a life.

Storm Models, the agency behind famous faces like Kate Moss and Lily Cole, is launching a digital channel designed to give girls between the ages of 15-19 a behind-the-scenes peek at the fashion industry. In addition to bi-monthly "branded" editorials, the site will have daily reader-generated content (although I think it takes awhile to establish a regular audience that's comfortable enough to begin posting their own content). According to the press release, there will also be "content created by the youth team at LIVE! a magazine written, illustrated, produced and distributed by the young people of south London. All the contributors are mentored and supported by a team of journalists from a wide-range of publications."

Just clicking around the site, you might think that Stormstyle.com is a new fashion magazine - the format is creative and very entertaining. The content appears a little Teen Vogue, but with more of a model slant than celebrity focus. Style from fashion editors, product recommendations from makeup artists, and candid blogs from young models give the reader brief, but revealing glances into an industry that's fascinating but still rather foreign.

The debut of Stormstyle.com comes fresh off the heels of Vogue's Model.Live launch, which is a similar concept from IMG. Pretty young models frolic around in front of a camera, revealing bits and pieces of their behind-the-scenes world. Think "America's Next Top Model" without the TV - and Tyra. Like Storm's venture, branding plays a big part with Express.com as the primary sponsor. Bebo as the "publisher." We were told in an email from Model.Live's publicist that they have had "1.25 million interactions with the series since launch."

While the two have very different formats, they will essentially appeal to the same audience. Unfortunately for IMG, Storm's website is more hands-on, engaging and very imaginative. Pretty impressive for a modeling agency.

Models Younger Than 16 Face London Catwalk Ban

BBC's Newsround reports :  Girls younger than 16 could be banned from working as models at the next London Fashion Week in September.

The size of models used was in the news during London Fashion Week in February, because people were worried some models were a bad influence on young people.

Experts thought if people saw really thin models they might try to copy them, which may not be healthy.

Now a group set up by British fashion bosses has said younger models shouldn't be used on the catwalk.

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Really skinny models - sometimes called size zero - have been banned in some countries, including Italy and Spain.

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Size zero is the smallest clothes size in the US, and is the same as a UK size four.

At the moment girls in the UK won't be stopped from modelling just because of their size or weight, even though some people think that should happen.

It looks likely models younger than 16 will be banned though, as fashion bosses have said they will go along with the group's recommendations.

Model Agency Storm's Top Tips

BBC's Newsround went to meet Paula Karaiskos from top model agency Storm, who discovered stars like Kate Moss and Lily Cole.

Most of the models Storm sign up are adults, but they take on a few under 16s and say they look at every photo that kids send in.

Storm's top tips for modelling

1. You don't need to spend money on expensive photos. Holiday snaps or pictures of you at home are much better because you look more natural.

2. Don't wear loads of make-up in your pictures

Top tips for modelling WATCH Paula's top tips

3. Be careful replying to adverts for models. Phone the company and find out more about them. Proper agencies will ask you to meet them in an office, not a hotel or café.

4. If you are stopped on the street, never go off with a stranger - even if they are promising to make you famous! Arrange another time to meet them with a parent or guardian.

5. It might be worth waiting until you are 14 before you approach an agency, because your looks change a lot as you are growing up.