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Skinny Image Makes Male models strugglingThe same scene replays twice a year each year in Paris and Milan. Young men in skinny jeans and the latest sneakers and T-shirts line up at top fashion houses hoping for a flush catwalk job.At the venerable house of Ungaro on a sunny day in June, designer Franck Boclet and his trusted assistant Damien Amsallem turned up early to work for the label's 24-hour "casting" - finding 15 male models with the right look and right body to carry off their new collection to catwalk perfection at Paris Fashion Week, starting Thursday. "There are lots of candidates this year," said Amsallem ahead of the June 25-29 Paris Men's Fashion. "It must be the crisis. Even models who've done major advertising campaigns for perfumes like Chanel are looking for work."  In all more than 100 young men from London, Moscow, Tokyo, Paris and elsewhere turned up, crowding corridors and milling on stairs clutching press-books and lists of the several dozen other Paris designers casting for models that day. "It's one casting after another," said Montreal model Felix Bujo. "You run around from house to house looking for work and eat on the hop. This is our life, travelling the world from one fashion week to another looking for jobs." It was no go for him at Ungaro's however. Nor for 20-year-old six-foot-one design student Harvey Newton-Haydon and six-foot-three history student Jamie Conday, both fron Britain. "This is our first try at modelling," said Harvey. "We have to get to Dior and Prada. They're casting this afternoon, but we don't know our way around." Ungaro's Boclet first and foremost was on the look-out for twins. "There are four lots of twins listed with the modelling agencies," he said. "But so far I've found just one pair." Why twins? "My designs are based on duality," Boclet said. "I hate people who dress as if they have a single personality. I want to show a man as a dandy in a suit and as a rocker in leather, highlight both sides of his personality." Lining up as a duo were 23-year-old twins from Portugal, Jonathan and Kevin Ferreira de Sampaio, former physical education students spotted at university two years ago by a fashion talent scout and hired by Dolce & Gabbana in 2007. The pair, who have never looked back since, epitomise the new boy on the catwalks, not the big beefcake type but a man with some muscles and a physique, unlike the chicken-chested undernourished sexually-ambivalent figure all the rage in the early 2000s. "We plan to go back to university soon but for now have work," said one of the brothers, paid anything from a minimum 500 euros to several thousand for a show, which is way less than female models are given normally. After marking down the twins for two of his 15 slots on offer, Boclet ushered in candidates one after another, checking their portfolios and briefly saying hello. "No! No! No! Too Latin. Too classical good looks!" he said after waving off a couple of extremely good-looking young men. "I'm not looking for perfection. I want boys who aren't too beautiful or too ugly." Bastien Bonizec, a tall skinny 18-year-old with a shock of long red hair, caught his eye and was asked to "try on a jacket and walk". "Fine, take his picture," said Boclet, laying the photograph alongside other pre-selected candidates. "Some of the boys are way too slim, they barely look like adults, but I need them to fit perfectly into a size 48 jacket," said the designer. "Others don't have thighs, they work on their upper bodies but not on their legs." Setting the pictures on the desk side-by-side, Boclet and Amsallem weeded out faces to assemble 15 types who as a group would best show off the label's spring-summer collection. "We've got three red-heads, two blond men, the twins have brown hair and we have a dark-haired Asian. Let's find some more red-heads," said Boclet. By the end of the day, Ungaro had two pairs of twins and five red-heads among the 15 male models selected to sashay in the designs. Source : AFP
05:13 AM, July 21, 2009
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Male Model - Get Beat Up by a LocalDid you know that on Friday nights in New York City there's a place where you can go to watch male models get punched in the face by local boxers? It's true! It's called Friday Night Throwdown and there's video.Paper magazine, our most salient cultural explorer, sent an operative to the underground boxing event, which squares local brawlers off against those cheekboned, preening men that stand and pout for a living. It's odd that a fashion model would participate in any activity where balls fly at his nose he could potentially permanently damage his moneymaker, but oh well. We just hope that at some point one of the assaulted fellows begins to shriek "Not in the face! Not in the face!" Because, let's be honest, that's what we'd be shrieking too. And we're not male models. By Richard Lawson
08:57 AM, July 15, 2009
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Online Model World-Free Membership Account For ModelsAre you interested in becoming one of the most famous models in the world? Do you want to be a member on a professional online modeling website? If your answer to either of these two questions is affirmative, then you should definitely keep on reading. Online Model World is offering free membership accounts to all prospective models, wanting to help them succeed in their future careers. Talk about a great opportunity that one cannot simply refuse.Modeling is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world, bringing one into the spotlight and guaranteeing important returns for all completed projects. The tough part about becoming a model is being recognized and appreciated for all existing qualities. Online modeling websites such as Online fashion models World give prospective models the chance they are looking for, the opportunity to be appreciated and hires for different projects. They understand how hard it is to become a world-renowned model, allowing them to post information about themselves and build a profile that everyone can browse.Upon becoming a member at Online Model World, one will be given full access to all prospective clients and be given the chance the contact them easily. fashion are presented with a number of advantages as members on the website, advantages that they will discover step by step. They will start by building a model portfolio, adding as many photographs and videos as they desire (there is no limit whereas such matters are concerned). As members, they will have the possibility to apply to any of the modeling jobs, customize their web page and even have their own model channel. These represent just few of the benefits offered as members to all models, regardless of their age or previous experience.In order to respond to any of the existing job offers, all models have to do is to use the internal email system. This is the best way to contact prospective employers and it always guarantees the privacy of both parts. Professional online modeling website respect the need for privacy, so there is no need to worry that private information will be disclosed. As for the payment, this is usually performed through Escrow as a direct and secure method.Models can really benefit from building a profile at Online fashion modeling, being easily contacted by prospective employers and specialists working in the field. They can upload custom content on their page, read the articles introduced on the online modeling website and are given complete access to the employer directory. Considering all the benefits offered, could they honestly wish for something more?You probably understand the important to being a member on a specialized website. Online Model World knows everything there is to know about entering the world of fashion, offering a free account to all prospective models. How prepared are you to discover and build your own portfolio on modeling sites?By Victory Elissabeth
07:45 AM, July 13, 2009
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Another Hot Top Model in the eye of Keeper Niki MihaylovThe youth national footballer Niki Mihaylov doesn't suffered a lot after he split with the sexy hot model chalga singer Nikol.The keeper who plays in Holland is now with another hot girlfriend - the ex top model Ralitsa Toshkova.The beauty is so mad about the football player that she is ready to give him a child. Both live together in Holland since they met a couple of weeks ago, but obviously for Ralitsa their relationship is in more serious phase.Niki explained to his three years older girl that he is too young for family and kids.For now their love may be expressed only in tattoos, he believes. Because of him Ralitsa left the model business in Bulgaria. She even refused a Playboy offer.
09:34 AM, July 11, 2009
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Black Models have a BoostThe figurative and sometimes real "Whites Only" signs in the fashion models are starting to come down in the wake of Barack Obama's election win, male models tell the New York Times. Fashion shows in the US and Europe are starting to more closely resemble the real world's diversity, the models say, and scouts are beginning to pay a lot more attention to African-Americans."It’s totally about Obama, said an African-American model from Dallas, who remembers his agent telling him "If Obama does become president, there’s going to be a lot more work for you guys." In New York, where the fashion modeling industry employs an estimated 175,000 people, many hope the new trend will see a surge in homegrown talent on the catwalks. Rob Quinn Source: New York Times
09:34 AM, July 11, 2009
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Craig drops his spy gearJAMES Bond hunk DANIEL CRAIG the nude model swaps covert for overt operations – as he perches naked on a bed for his new role.Craig, 40, stars in Flashbacks Of A Fool as ageing Hollywood star Joe Scott who is trying to come to terms with his past following a childhood pal’s death.  It will have female fans dying to give him more than just a Quantum of Solace.
04:02 AM, November 4, 2008
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Tips for Male Models
The modeling industry is famous for female supermodels, in every types of advertisement requires female models. Before some times modeling contest did held only for female just like miss universe or miss world. But now a big change is create in modeling world male model also needed for advertisement with female. And modeling contest also held for male models. If you are a boy with attractive looks and good height and your physical criteria will be match this measurements, height 5’11 to 6’2 and weight according to height or may be 170 pounds and age between 18 to 25 years then you should be a male model.
Always contact a best and famous modeling photographer. Many times we notice that attractive face guys have left and simple look personality shine. Therefore you need a good photographer as he gives you a perfect look according modeling agency requirements. He makes your chance easy to entering in glamour world. A male model is not shown in body builder appearance. So find out what type of plus size modeling suited to you. There are any types of modeling glamour, commercial, ramp walk and fashion model. You can choose according your personality and give photo shots in every type of wears and poses.
After it you need to hire a good agent or manager. He/she know everything about this field and help you to do your best and can arrange a good job for you easily. To become a top male model you need confident and hard work.
09:03 AM, March 14, 2008
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