Debates about beauty and the brain have revolved around whether we “think beauty” or “feel beauty”. A lot of marketing money goes towards understanding how people’s brains respond to images. What we do know is that it takes a good few seconds for stimuli to enter into the cognitive portion of the brain, where we [...]
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Model Scouting: Right Time, Right Place
Model Scouting Not every model is aware of their unique, perhaps ‘unusual’ beauty and it often takes the trained eye of a modeling scout to pick these candidates from a crowd. What is true is that many famous models are scouted young – usually in their early to mid teens. In fact, Lara Stone, Kate [...]
Next Models as Artists
According to Telegraph UK, in July, London’s Whisper Gallery will host a Next Models art exhibition featuring Tali Lennox, Harry Gilliam, Polly Brown and Mark Waddleton. The exhibition entitled Identity, investigates the issues of real versus perceived identity in society; a topic models are no strangers to. Remarking on the upcoming exhibit, Faith Kates, co-founder of Next Models [...]
Model Sanctuary Relaunch
In 2007 British supermodel Erin O’Connor opened London’s Model Sanctuary headquarters to provide models with a safe haven to receive “discrete health guidance and educational support” from nutritionists, psychologists and fitness experts. Despite much protest and disappointment, Model Sanctuary closed in February. Now, months after O’Connor’s SOS plea, the British Fashion Council has taken over the not-for-profit organization and is proudly relaunching. [...]
Agents Blamed for Lack of Black Runway Models
When Vogue Italia EIC Franca Sozzani talks you listen (and by talk we mean blog). Ever-so controversial within the modeling industry, besides ‘The Great Cover Debate’ and the Vogue Health Initiative, is the use of black models on the runway and their industry impact. Surprisingly, according to Sozzani, AGENTS are those being credited for the [...]
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