Become a Model: Tips & Advise

Modeling is a very large industry. Supermodels, or highly successful models, only represent a tiny fraction of models and modeling jobs although they do attract the most attention and publicity. Many women dream of becoming a successful top model but like other creative fields such as acting and singing, the competition for model places is fierce and disappointments are many.

Fortunately, the modeling world is vast and there are opportunities for everyone regardless of age, sex, weight, height, ethnicity or skill set. Modeling jobs cover a variety of fields including fashion, art, glamour, print, web, children, family and the list goes on. Most magazines, books, television commercials and other media related fields all require models based on their own particular needs. However becoming a model is not an easy task based on looks, and looks alone. To become a successful model will require a positive attitude, the ability to accept rejection, commitment, determination, hard work and a good working relationship with their model agency.

Beginners should have their photos up on a portfolio hosting site for models. These websites are generally free to join and upload photos and can get you a lot of exposure. I would recommend having memberships and profiles at ALL 3 of the following websites:

Miss Online
Model Mayhem
One Model Place

The first two (Miss Online and Model Mayhem) are totally free. The third is mostly free but you do get constant messages to upgrade to the “gold membership” (which I don’t think is worth the money).

Miss Online doesnt censor profile pages for content. You can add links to your other modeling profiles as well as your myspace page, etc. I’d use Miss Online as the profile link to send prospective agents because it saves alot of time typing in different websites. They go to the Miss Online profile and can link to your others. Simple.

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Моделирование 2.0 - Самый горячий Новый Участок Моделирования

Мы недавно написали о версии бета нового Участка мисс Онлин Моделинга. (Вы можете прочитать пост, названный “Лучше всего Новый Участок Моделирования 2008).

Хорошо, новый участок был выкачен, и волнение об этом новом участке огромно. Это - первая истинная социальная организация сети, или сеть 2.0, вебсайт, посвященный женским моделям.

Члены имеют полный контроль над их опытом. Они могут импортировать фотографии непосредственно из flickr, полностью настроить их страницу профиля моделирования и для тех, кто снимает на пробеге – они могут послать это непосредственно от их сотовых телефонов до их страницы мисс Онлин Профайл.

В отличие от одного образцового места, которое ограничивает содержание, имеющее отношение к внешним участкам, мисс Онлин приглашает это. Когда модели подписывают и создают профиль, есть вопросы, которые просят напечатать в их OMP #, ММ #, Страница Myspace, и т.д. Создатели надеются, что эта стратегия приведет к их вебсайту, становящемуся центральной страницей логина для всех моделей. Почему посылают связи агентов 10 различным вебсайтам, когда Вы можете только дать им, ваша мисс Онлин ЕРЛ и вся та информация находятся в странице.

Место богато с пользовательскими особенностями от демонстраций слайдов, к таможенным значкам профиля, виджетам и, получать это, ОБРАЗЦОВЫЙ РАЗГОВОР! Они только что включали БЕТУ - ВЕРСИЮ Образцового Разговора относительно места. Это - комната для дискуссий непосредственно на вебсайте, где пользователи могут взаимодействовать. Модели могут дать и спросить относительно, сообщают от других моделей, или агенты могут обсудить детали работы в реальном времени с моделью. Больше нет пользование электронной почтой в течение многих дней.

О, и сделал я упоминаю - ДЕВОЧКИ КУРЯТ ГОРЯЧИЙ!

We’ve recently written about the beta version of the new Miss Online Modeling Site. (You can read the post entitled  “Best New Modeling Site of 2008).

Well, the new site has been rolled out and the excitement about this new site is huge. This is the first true social networking, or web 2.0, website dedicated to female models.

Members have complete control over their experience. They can import photos directly from flickr, totally customise their modeling profile page and for those who take pictures on the run–they can send it directly from their cell phones to their Miss Online Profile page.

Unlike one model place, which restricts content pertaining to external sites, Miss Online invites it. When models sign up and create a profile, there are questions which ask to type in their OMP #, MM #, Myspace Page, etc. The creators are hoping that this strategy will lead to their website becoming the central login page for all models. Why send agents links to 10 different websites when you can just give them your Miss Online URL and all of that info is in the page.

The site is rich with user features from slideshows, to custom profile badges, widgets and, get this, MODEL TALK! They’ve just included the BETA release of Model Talk on the site. This is a chat room directly on the website where users can interact. Models can give and ask for advise from other models, or agents can discuss job details in real time with the model. No more emailing for days.

Oh, and did I mention –THE GIRLS ARE SMOKING HOT !

Guess who … Elyse Taylor and Nicole Trunfio.

The Chic Model Management stablemates are currently sitting pretty after scoring this new European advertising campaign for fashion giant Guess - and will be featured billboard big on the Continent in the coming months.

Taylor, who features alongside Megan Gale and Miranda Kerr in the latest catalogue for David Jones, is on a roll, with talk she’s also about to bank a major cheque as a face for one global cosmetics company.

Smells like a winner to us, hint, hint.

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See the sexy slide show below.

Source: NYMag

Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe in “The Last Sitting”

Photographs by Bert Stern

• By Amanda Fortini

In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose.

The photos endure partly as artifacts—as the last visible evidence of the living woman (a legacy reinforced by Stern’s decision to publish the contact sheets Monroe herself had crossed out in red marker). But the pictures are also remarkable for the raw truths they seem to reveal. In them, we see an actress whose comedic talents were overshadowed by her sex appeal, a woman who is cannily aware of her pinup status, yet is also beginning to show her 36 years. In many shots, she is obviously drunk. This was an unhappy time for Monroe. Notorious for her on-set antics, she had been publicly lambasted by Billy Wilder after Some Like It Hot, then fired from the production of Something’s Got to Give; she’d endured two recent divorces and, in 1961, a brief stint in a psychiatric ward.

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MILAN FASHION WEEK

Prada: Erotica and old lace

By Suzy Menkes

Source: International Herald Tribune, France

Milan Fashion Week | Giorgio Armani

(EPA/Daniel Dal Zennaro)

The Fashion Telex: In which the editors of T: The New York Times Style Magazine file almost-real-time dispatches from the show of the moment. This week, the Telex comes from Milan’s women’s fashion week.

Anne Christensen, women’s fashion director, reporting from Milan on Giorgio Armani —

Armani opened the show today with a man in a brown velvet suit, setting a very different tone this year. The show was a mix of all his favorite international references — from the Chinese, to the Spanish, to the Indian. There were velvet harem pants, Spanish-lace shawls and more. I liked best how the collection was street ready. Lots of flats. No girls teetering high heels like the rest of the shows!”

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(Damien Meyer/Getty Images)

(Damien Meyer/Getty Images)

Source: The Moment NY Times

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Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks are models of success

Tuesday, February 19th 2008, 4:00 AM

A 34-year-old mother of three being named the world’s sexiest model sounds unlikely, unless that woman is Heidi Klum, who also happens to be one of the most successful global brands in the industry.

“The icon they call Heidi Inc. is no mere sexy mortal, but a force of nature. All hail!” gushed the Models.com Web site that crowned Klum top model and named TV diva Tyra Banks fourth sexiest model.

It’s no wonder these two TV titans took down the competition. Klum and Banks are more than runway strutters, they’re brands who’ve changed the face of the modeling business as we know it. “They’ve broken the mold and diversified, successfully doing things they’re actually good at,” says image consultant and former model Sandy Dumont.

In the ’90s, supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell tried to break away from the runway with roles on the big screen. (Anyone remember Crawford’s flop, “Fair Game”? We thought not.) But Klum and Banks redefined the model slash actress cliché and instead created a platform that actually flies: model slash host.

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SI gets semi-naked

By Tom Purcell

Source: Statesman Journal

February 19, 2008

You’ve got to give the Sports Illustrated people points for being honest.

It’s February, you see. In many parts of the country, it’s bitter cold. The Super Bowl is over and baseball is yet to begin. We men don’t know what to do with ourselves.

Our minds unoccupied, we lack direction. We dwell randomly on negative things — our post-holiday flabbiness, old girlfriends who didn’t work out and, for some, girlfriends who did.

But one thing — the smile of a beautiful, scantily clad woman — can make us forget our woes. SI has been helping us forget since it published its first swimsuit issue 44 years ago.

But this year it hit the mother lode.

The cover features Marisa Miller, a 29-year-old stunner who cut her teeth modeling for Victoria’s Secret. As her curviness spills off the page, she gazes at us with angelic calm. She makes us feel like everything is going to be all right.

And maybe it is going to be all right.

Surely you know the origin of the swimsuit issue. The editors came up with the idea to boost magazine sales during the dead of winter.

It’s been driving feminists batty from the start. They say it exploits women, and it does. They say it is wrong for men to view women as mere objects, and it is. But what angers them most is that the cover models often go on to fame and fortune just because they are gorgeous.

Then they marry a multimillionaire, eventually divorce him, and live happily ever after on a considerable pile of dough.

The evolution of the swimsuit issue is also worth noting. The early issues were simple and mild. But in the late 1970s — thank you, Cheryl Tiegs — things really started heating up. The swimsuits got scantier and the models more beautiful.

That trend continued until the late 1990s, when something went terribly wrong. The 1998 issue, for instance, featured bony women with frowns on their faces. It had more feature stories than photos — such as interviews with beautiful female meteorologists who were covered up with more clothing than a winter mannequin at Macy’s.

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Heidi Klum named sexiest model in the world

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She beats off competition from Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen

She may not have the iconic status of Kate Moss or the instant recognition of Naomi Campbell, but Heidi Klum has won the coveted top spot to be named ’sexiest model in the world’.

The German supermodel, who is married to singer Seal, was voted the accolade by industry website Models.com. Heidi, 34, was praised for her natural beauty and her spin-off products.

‘The icon they call Heidi Inc is no mere sexy mortal, but a force of nature,’ a spokesperson for Models.com tells the Daily Mail. ‘All hail she of the cascading hair, the shimmering skin, the impossible body and the effervescent personality.’

Gisele Bundchen, 27, came second, while Brazilian model Adriana Lima, 26, was third.

America’s Next Top Model star Tyra Banks, 34, and Karolina Kurkova rounded off the top 5.

But fashion icons Naomi Campbell, 37, and Kate Moss, 34, failed to crack the top 10, coming in at 12th and 18th respectively. Naomi was the highest ranked British model.

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