Posted by: Richard Wheeler
on May 19, 2009
What led you to become a model agent?
It was an accident. I was hired by a friend who started a new division at Next. They needed some temporary assistance and I was unemployed at the time, so my friend asked me if I would be able to help out for a couple of months until they're able to find a permanent replacement. 12 years later, I'm still chugging along.
Name your favourite 3 faces at the moment?
That probably wouldn't go over well. It's like naming your favorite kids. I love them all equally.
A memorable moment of being a model Agent?
Wow, that's a tough one. There are so many to choose from. I guess the most memorable one, not because it was so shocking, probably because it happened very early in my career, was when we got a call from a woman who submitted images of her son for representation. She called us to follow up and see what we thought of him. The agent she was speaking to said that he felt the guy was not right for us. So the mother said: do you think his nose is too big, we can get him a nose job. It was jarring to my system to think that a mother would be so desperate to have her son model that she would offer to get him a mutilated. Perhaps he really did indeed want to model, but it just seemed like the mother was living vicariously through him. This happened my first week at Next and I still think about it to this day. It was also probably the single most influential factor on how I view this business and my place in it.
Posted by: Richard Wheeler
on May 18, 2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Model as a Muse: Embodying Fashion
The Tisch Galleries, 2nd Floor
May 6, 2009 – August 9, 2009
The Model as a Muse, spring 2009 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the reciprocal relationshipbetween highfashion and evolving ideals of beauty,focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras.
The exhibition features approximately 80 masterworks of haute couture and ready-to-wear. Fashion editorial, advertising, and runway photography plus large- scale projections from feature films are used throughout the galleries to contextualize the fashion zeitgeist.
A book, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, written by Harold Koda and Kohle Yohannan, accompanies the exhibition. It is published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press – $50 for the hardcover; and, at Met locations (including metmuseum.org), $35 for a paperback edition.
Also, a T-shirt designed by Marc Jacobs on the occasion of the exhibition is available for purchase in red or fuchsia in the Museum's on-site shops and www.metmuseum.org for $35
Posted by: Richard Wheeler
on May 04, 2009
Emperors New Clothes sat down with model Allison Hagen to get to know a bit more about this southern girl. While she might seem shy at first, we were there at the Met Shoot running around and getting crazy.
* What got you started in the Modeling Industry?
Long story short, I got started in modeling because I was doing musical theatre growing up. Initially, I wanted to become an actress but I started this way because it just kind of happened. I was in Hollywood for a convention and the manager I have today saw me and gave me his card and told me to have my parents call him. So I thought about it and the summer after my junior year of High School I was living in New York City and starting a career.
