Getting to the top - What is takes to become a model

There are quite a few models that have gotten to the top under my management. There is a girl right now working doing all the shows in Europe New York and in Miami.  I remember when she came to me over 5 years ago...I told her then she was going to do great..but she needed to get certain things done. I am so proud of her when I see her doing so well, she stuck with it...maybe the fact that I believed in her gave her the strength not to give up..she is very grateful. 

 I found a young man who was 16 at the time, and after years of coaching finally became the top model in the world and maintained that status until he changed careers.  Now he is a successful producer. 

There is a model that I started when he was 16 who wanted to be an actor.  I slowly built his career and now he is a man in Hollywood working on film and still modeling.

What I am trying to say is that these people stuck with it!  They believed that I believed and it took time years for some.

It was years for me before I started working, I was obsessed and I make sure that the kids I coach and represent are obsessed.  I have managed over 100 models at a time and very few have the perseverance to keep moving forward no matter what.  If you want to be a star and believe you have what it takes then contact me, I love helping models . 

I pay it forward and so far I have been very successful in doing so.  Never give up, work hard study the magazines and the photographers, get emerged in the business and you will attract the work!!

Age is Just a Number

Lately I have been volunteering at a senior center here in palm Beach...I have met many seniors in their 80's and 90's.. because my eye cant help but photograph people after so many years of doing that,  I look at these ladies and try to see what they looked like 50 years ago.

I am sure some where quite beautiful! When I get to know them better I will ask to see their pictures...This has brought a new reality to my thinking. Models are 13 these days and work till they are 25 and some much more but most of them think they are old at that age. 

Because of the business, they forget that in the real world 80 is old...it is normal in the business to hear from agent things like -  well he is to old or she is to old.. From volunteering at the Center I now see that there is not to old..that is only in our business.. 

These ladies I bet are still the ageless age of youth on the inside..they glow from the inside out and love the fact that they are alive and are full of gratitude..I went there to be of service to them and instead I am being enlightened....

Since the business does have an age requirement one must take advantage of those years and make wise decisions about the money they make..if you can leave the business with enough money to start your life after modeling then you will not feel the slump of the business and you will not find it hard to survive .. 

Do not become one of the models that is begging for any kind of work you can get...Take it from someone who made all the mistakes..it is not pretty when they tell you you are over and you have nothing to fall on except memories...save your money and pay yourself a salary open a corporation and keep an account of all your business dealings...

Remembering Fashion Week

Fashion week always makes me nostalgic about the times that I walked the runway. Print work is with a few people and is very rewarding..but walking in shows is like theater -  live with music and lights and an audiences, it was one of my favorite things to do when I was modeling..

I was blessed to do all the great shows in Europe and and in New York..I remember being booked for the first Calvin Klein runway show..it was a who is who of modeling must of being over 40 models and all were famous..it was a magical day..and still brings back great memories...

Modeling is fun and hardly work for those that love the business, you have to love it, you need to ask yourself would I do it for free? If the answer is yes, then you are in the right business...Shows are so exciting and fast ,the clothes the girls the makeup the music its all magical, hope you get to experience the top shows one day..

My love for helping models

Today is Monday and it started with the usual thoughts..hoping that I am aligned with the Universal thought and I am expressing myself in that way...

I love to help models,  its in my blood.  It is rewarding when they actually look me up and send an email saying nice things like -  I am so grateful that you are taking the time to help me.  When someone does that it warms my heart and I get so happy that someone took the time to learn about me and my accomplishments..

When I was starting out a lot of people helped me so I try to give back and do the same they did for me..I have started many wonderful people. I never did it for the money but for the satisfaction.  I knew what I knew was right from starting movie stars to supermodels to fashion photographers and designers ..and many others that I have no idea how I touched them.  

The other day I got a call from California and it was a kid that I had helped and gave confidence to. He called to tell me that he was a major recording star now and that I had been instrumental in him believing in himself... Well talk about karma, I really needed that. It had been over 2o years since I had seen him and he found me and wanted to tell me thank you. Before that call I was in total despair about my future. Then today a young model asked for my advice and a great young man also asked me to manage him..so all its good..

I suppose I better think of the mismanagement fees that I never thought of before since the Models Brotherhood that I am hoping to start will need money to get going..Peace