Behind the Image is an ongoing MODELS.com series taking a more personal look at both established and emerging creative talent. Nicole Bentley, photographer Hometown: Perth, Western Australia Based: Sydney, Australia Representation: M.A.P…
How Yasmin Warsame Balanced Motherhood in Pursuit of Modeling
Longevity is not an easy thing to come by in a modeling industry so focused on the new. New debuts, new exclusives, new faces from far-off locals – it can feel like…
Greg Chan on Demystifying The Mother Agency Route
Starting off in the modeling industry as a budding model can be bewildering and often challenging to navigate without the right guidance and mother agent rooting for your ascendance. Longtime top male…
How The Hinton Group is Defining Culture with Impactful Moments
Invoking meaning into the art of connection must be as delicate, as it is impactful. Much like us all, the styling machines behind dressing Vice Presidents, First Ladies, Congresswomen, starlets, and Civil…
Mamé Adjei on Expanding The Hiring Pool Through The Black Beauty Roster
For years, Black models and actors have resorted to handling their own hair & makeup on set or bringing personal products due to a lack of expertise from the hair & makeup…
Hugo Comte’s Cinematic World Comes to Life in The Book
Photo courtesy of Hugo Comte Studios | Model – Ana Jorge The intimate intensity of Hugo Comte’s subjects can be unsettling when you first glimpse them. Zoomed-in cropping means muses are purposely…
Sherry Shi on how the Airplane Test Can Secure A Model’s Career
After debuting in 2018, newly minted hot-lister Sherry Shi broke new ground at fashion week during a year that was structurally unstable. In September with New York closed off from the rest…
Staying Power: Brooke Shields Reflects on Creating Iconic Images
Before Brooke Shields‘ eighteenth birthday she was already an indisputable part of American film lore and fashion. Her influence over the decades has spanned way beyond movies into an expansive career in…
Carré Otis on Speaking Up and Trusting Your Instincts
In 2011, Carré Otis published Beauty, Disrupted, a memoir in which she made serious sexual assault allegations against agency boss Gérald Marie. Almost ten years later, in the wake of the #MeToo…
Baba Diop on the Power of Protest and Fashion’s Duty to Speak Up
If you can bear to even utter the number 2020, one of the most traumatic parts of the past year came from the public witnessing of state-enacted brutality against Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna…