London Promotes – Equity Models

Victoria Keon-Cohen, Chair of Equity’s Models Committee, has just invited us all to share in London Promotes; a campaign for London Fashion Week. It’s about the work the Model Programme – an alliance between Equity, the Models’ Union, the British Fashion Council, Association of Model Agents and the Greater London Authority – is doing to ensure that London is a healthy and safe place for models.

Models Direct Supports The BFC’s Model Programme

Models Direct fully supports the BFC’s Model Programme and all the efforts being made to ensure models’ safety and wellbeing while on modelling jobs. Let’s just hope that the rest of the industry takes these recommendations on board, and that further headway is made.

Models Direct’s Child Models Enjoy Photoshoot For ADHD Campaign

Advertising agency Tap Creative recently came to Models Direct looking for two ‘real’ looking child models aged 8-12 to front an ADHD medication campaign for Flynn Pharma – a company that aims to re-energise tried and trusted branded pharmaceutical products.

9 year old Alex and 11 year old Gemma fit the company’s requirements perfectly and the pair were booked into a 2-day photoshoot in Cambridge.

A Model’s Guide To…

In partnership with the British Fashion Council (BFC) and the London Development Agency (LDA), and with support from Dance UK, Equity has produced a series of online leaflets called ‘A Model’s Guide To’.

Plus Size Model Search With Velvet d’Amour

As Models Direct has said before, modelling competitions can be a fantastic way to kick start your modelling career.

That’s why earlier in the week we let you know about a great hair modelling competition in the West Midlands, and now we’re letting you know about a plus size model search for fashion photographer Velvet d’Amour’s new fashion magazine Plus-Size-Tall.com.

Model Poppy Delevingne Becomes Young Ambassador For The BFC

Yesterday, Models Direct found out that top British model Poppy Delevingne has just been appointed as Young Ambassador for The British Fashion Council (BFC).

We think this is great news for the internationally successful model, and can’t wait to see her in a role that will involve supporting the British Fashion Council as it promotes British fashion design talent to a global market.