I can't sleep...so after I make the usual computer website-weblog rounds (Dlisted.com first, followed by Gawker.com, then, if I'm feeling particularly brainy, NYtimes.com), I dilly dally on Jezebel.com, and come across a post about America's Next Top Models: Where are they now? I'm always wondering where the ones I thought should win—or thought had a chance on hitting it big in high fashion—are.
Contrary to popular belief, ANTM isn't a career squasher—if you possess the high fashion genes. Some of the girls they let onto that show...I mean, come on! They don't have a chance at being anything more than a promotional model for Paulie Girl's Beer! But there are always those few who really do have the look (and, let's not forget, the age) to make it big.
ANYA
(Source via Elite)
Anya from Cycle 10 signed with Elite, even though she didn't win, and is being primed for the big time on their Development Board.
FATIMA
(Source via New York Model Management)
Iman doppleganger and Cycle 10 stunner, Fatima, signed with New York Models and is on their highest board: Editorial.
KATARZYNA (AKA KAT DOLL)
(Source via Elite Paris)
Katarzyna, also from Cycle 10, signed with Elite Models Paris—a fabulous move to build up her portfolio with more cutting-edge editorial images. What I find funny is that they changed her name completely—it's now "Kat Doll." If ever there was a stage name! Anyway...She's found on the Image Board—which I gather is a bit edgier.
So, it would seem Cycle 10 boasted a bunch of "winners"...no?
Aside from ANTM, I already keep a steady eye on model agency websites (for inspiration for work), so as I made the rounds looking at agencies to see how Tyra's kicked-off babes are fairing, I decided to look at some agencies I often use for booking models to see how one of the models I worked with is doing. Her name is Payton, and when I worked with her, she was 14. Very young...but absolutely stunning. Payton was a real trooper and great consummate professional.
Any-hoot, on the agency website, I saw that they actually used images from the shoot I directed in her portfolio. This is unusual as it seems that not many models want to show they worked in a nail magazine (hey, I guess I can't blame them...). Here's a screen capture:
PAYTON
I made that headpiece...I still have it actually. I wore it for Halloween this year. I didn't look as angelic in it as she did, but I looked pretty darn good. I was a "garden party."
I think the birds added a slightly scary touch to it, don't you think?
But besides how not-as-hot-as-Payton I looked in that headpiece, I was still psyched to see that her agency advised she use images from a shoot I dreamt up. Even if they cut the polishes out of the image—which they did. (I always tell my exec editor not to put the polishes on the same page as the model image, but she won't listen to me! We squabble about it all the time...friendly squabble...but I'm right.)
And look out for Payton. I see big things in her future!
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