Modeling Industry

Several Paris-based agencies are re-positioning their ships to head straight to the big bounty markets of NY

There is a certain clever big brand agency that has owners who admonish their staff to stay relevant when it comes to global financial news. That staff is required to be aware of all that dull matter as seen in the gray margins of...”The Financial Times”…“The Wall Street Journal” ..”Bloomberg News” .

Next Generation from Peter Damgaard on Vimeo.

As Copenhagen Fashion Week SS 13 cycles up today for its 6 day spin, TI's spotlight swings towards 2pm, The Copenhagen based management company founded in 1999 by Peter Damgaard and Michelle Jensen. On my visit earlier this summer I had wound my way to the courtyard offices of 2pm and found it an oasis of thoughtfulness crossed with great taste. During an al fresco lunch with Peter and his team of managers I was struck by the entirely holistic bent of 2pm's enterprise. There was something clean and fresh and modern in the merger of commerce and conscience that struck me as being so timely as to signal a future way of managing the new ideas emerging around fashion itself. After 10 years of being completely entrenched in the New York City way of model management, I was really moved by the display of critical intelligence welling up on a mother agent level. The true story, as Peter communicated , was not centralized, but thoroughly globalized and as such I followed up a few weeks later with the lingering questions our initial meeting triggered. This is what Mr Damgaard had to say.

Thanking Neal Hamil, Dustin Mayur, Carlton Gardner, Florian Acheron, Base Design, Qualls Benson, WeWorks and all the lovely mother agencies

The fast rising Xiao Wen at IMG flows effortlessly with the standard runway ideal.

Did you hear that very juicy tidbit about a certain venerable editor who rang up Angelica Cheung, the editor of Vogue China, to find out what her secret for those booming ad pages could be ?

Who will Blip? Who will Blur?Who will Blast?

Blip. That's the sound she makes across the fashionscape , an extremely brief episode of noise emitted in that one great first season of hers.

Is 2010 the year of breakthrough cover coups?

The Girl With The Endless Possibilities: Ms Caroline Brasch Nielsen

Even as the New York modeling houses rip down the curtains in the most dramatic display of strum und drang it has coughed up in 10 years, TI noticed a stealth streak this season on the part of venerable Elite.

In LA recovering from two epic Post-Oscar blowouts but hangover or not

The saddest press release hit TI today...