
{"id":170949,"date":"2026-07-19T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=170949"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:27:19","slug":"introducing-pro-news-and-the-mdc-talent-watch-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/introducing-pro-news-and-the-mdc-talent-watch-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Pro News and the MDC Talent Watch Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Models.com has always been the industry&#8217;s working platform: where images are seen, credits checked, and the people shaping fashion&#8217;s visual language are discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, we&#8217;re expanding what the platform does for Pro members with two new additions: <strong>MDC Talent Watch Reports<\/strong>, our new data analytics tool, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/pro\">Pro News<\/a><\/strong>, our new editorial section. Together, they give the industry a single home for both the information and the analysis behind how creative talent gets discovered, valued, and worked with.<\/p>\n<h2>MDC Talent Watch Reports<\/h2>\n<p>Built into your Pro membership, MDC Talent Watch Reports combines two complementary data sources to provide a recurring view of fashion&#8217;s creative landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on Models.com&#8217;s database of verified industry professionals, Talent Watch distills rankings, bookings, casting frequency, agency mappings, and creative-team compositions into actionable industry intelligence. Need to know who&#8217;s working, who&#8217;s emerging, and who&#8217;s making headlines? It&#8217;s all there.<\/p>\n<p>Talent Watch also tracks off-platform activity across Instagram, cataloguing the moves, moments, and rising names driving the industry&#8217;s conversations.<\/p>\n<h3>Launching with:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/reports\/view\/menswear-report-spring-summer-2027\">Spring \/ Summer 2027 Menswear Cheat Sheet<\/a><\/em>. Covering the latest Menswear shows in Milan and Paris.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/reports\/view\/couture-fall-winter-2026\">Couture!<\/a><\/em> Covering the Paris Couture season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together they offer an immediate overview of the creative talent shaping the current runway cycle.<\/p>\n<h2>Pro News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/pro\">Pro News<\/a> is a new editorial section for Models.com Pro members.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding Models.com&#8217;s reporting on the creative talent marketplace, Pro News covers the trends, moves, and conversations shaping the industry with in-depth analysis and insider perspectives on the people, systems, and moments defining fashion today. Updated regularly with commentary from an expanding roster of contributors, it offers a deeper understanding of the forces behind the work.<\/p>\n<h3>Launching with:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pierre A. M&#8217;Pele (PAM BOY)<\/strong> on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/casting-as-politics-the-negotiation-of-beauty\">Casting As Politics: The Negotiation of Beauty.<\/a><\/em> The agents, casting directors, and creative directors quietly redrawing the lines of who belongs on the runway.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zo\u00eb Yasemin<\/strong> on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/in-the-age-of-ai-what-is-a-photograph-proving-now\">In the Age of AI, What Is a Photograph Proving Now?<\/a><\/em> How proof has migrated from inside the image to the credit block around it, and why provenance is becoming the value.<\/li>\n<li>Coming Thursday: <strong>Madeleine Rothery<\/strong> on <em>Fashion&#8217;s Conversation With the Body Has Never Been More Complicated.<\/em> The designers, casting directors, and image-makers building the infrastructure that co-authorship between garment and body actually requires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More from our contributor roster will follow in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Available to Models.com Pro members from July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Stephan Moskovic<br \/>\nEditor-in-Chief, Co-Founder &amp; CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching today are two new additions for Pro members: MDC Talent Watch Reports, our new data analytics tool, and Pro News our new editorial section on trends and analysis of the creative talent marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15361],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170949"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171026,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170949\/revisions\/171026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}