In recent years the agency has diversified into media (through Ford Media) and other professions related to the fashion industry (through Ford Artists).
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After leaving the company, Katie Ford went on to become Global Ambassador for Free the Slaves, an anti slavery/anti human-trafficking non-profit organization. She was succeeded in 2007 by John Caplan. The Ford couple began the business in their home, and their daughter Katie Ford took over as CEO in 1995 after working in the agency for 16 years. In 1980 it launched the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest, which still attracts over 60,000 candidates from around the world every year. The agency has represented countless models and celebrities. Like many of the original agencies of the 1970s, Ford must now compete with numerous other agencies such as Women, IMG, and DNA. Teenage models who were far away from home were traditionally invited to stay with the Ford family.įord was “the” New York modeling agency until Elite under John Casablancas opened a local office in 1977, ultimately resulting in the “model wars” of the 1980s. One of the first modeling agencies, Ford was also the first to pay its models for completed jobs before the agency itself had been remunerated.
It was established in 1946 by Eileen Ford and her husband Gerard W. The Ford Modeling Agency, or Ford Models, as it is now more frequently known, is a modeling agency based in New York City with offices worldwide. Elite Model Look, its modeling competition with over 350,000 contestants in more than 55 countries, is an annual event that scouts for and launches new models.Įlite represents or has represented such notable models as Carol Alt, Alessandra Ambrosio, Tyra Banks, Gisele Bündchen, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Karen Elson, Eva Herzigova, Angelika Kallio, Liya Kibede, Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima, Elle Macpherson, Paulina Porizkova, Huggy Ragnarsson, Coco Rocha, Stephanie Seymour, and Tatiana Sorokko.
Elite manages over 800 models from all over the world and can also provide international coverage through the 36 agencies in its network.
Elite was founded by John Casablancas and Alain Kittler in Paris in 1972 and was by bought Nicholas Farrae in 1990. It is a subsidiary of Elite World SA, which is based in Paris. Elite Model Management is a large modeling agency with its headquarters in New York City.
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