{"id":170949,"date":"2026-07-19T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=170949"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:28:45","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>Today we&#8217;re launching two new additions for Models.com Pro members: <strong>MDC Talent Watch Reports<\/strong>, our new data analytics tool, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/pro\">Pro News<\/a><\/strong>, our editorial hub for trends, analysis, and commentary on the creative talent marketplace.<\/p>\n<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>Together, Talent Watch Reports and Pro News create a single destination for the data and editorial insight behind how creative talent is discovered, valued, and booked.<\/p>\n<p>As AI is reshaping how images are made and raising real concerns across the creative community, our focus at Models.com remains what it has always been: on human creativity and the people behind it. Both of these new additions are built to spotlight the individuals whose vision and work shape fashion.<\/p>\n<h2>MDC Talent Watch Reports<\/h2>\n<p>Included with every 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 industry conversation.<\/p>\n<h3>MDC Talent Watch Reports are 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> &#8211; 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> &#8211; covering the Paris Couture season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Together, these reports 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 Models.com&#8217;s new editorial destination for Pro members.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding our coverage of the creative talent marketplace, Pro News examines the trends, shifts, and conversations shaping fashion through in-depth analysis and insider perspectives on the people, systems, and moments defining the industry 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>Pro News is Launching with:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pierre A. M&#8217;Pele<\/strong> debuting in his new role as a Models.com editor-at-large with <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>Contributing Editor <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>Contributing Editor <strong>Madeleine Rothery<\/strong> on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/shrink-to-fit-fashions-conversation-with-the-body-has-never-been-more-complicated\">Fashion&#8217;s Conversation With the Body Has Never Been More Complicated<\/a><\/em>. The designers, casting directors, and image-makers building the infrastructure that co-authorship between garment and body actually requires.<\/li>\n<li>Contributing Editor <strong>Robyn Mowatt<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/in-brooklyns-indie-hip-hop-scene-fashion-and-music-converge-effortlessly\"><em>In Brooklyn&#8217;s Indie Hip-Hop Scene, Fashion and Music Converge Effortlessly<\/em><\/a>. Music serves as the unifying force in Brooklyn\u2019s indie hip-hop scene, where fashion creatives have cultivated a thriving community.\n<\/ul>\n<p>More from our contributor roster will follow in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find as much value in these as we&#8217;ve put into building them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephan Moskovic<\/strong><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":17,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171166,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170949\/revisions\/171166"}],"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}]}}