![]() Models of Los Angeles, whose professional roster includes frequent Vogue cover girl Tara Shannon and “Avon Lady” Sabine. ![]() “Everyone’s trying to find models with the natural, healthy look, and one of the best places to find them is California, and particularly San Diego.”Īnother international agency that regularly sends scouts to San Diego is L.A. “We send scouts to San Diego on a regular basis,” said Anselmo, whose agency represents such top models as Paulina Porizkova, Kim Alexis, Tatjana Patitz, and now Stephanie Seymour. Julie Anselmo, vice president of Elite in New York, agrees. People on the West Coast are generally more into health and fitness and beauty than anywhere else, and with San Diego’s perfect weather, people just tend to look good.” “I think it’s because of the natural environment down here. “I was just up in San Francisco, at a national convention for agencies like ours that are affiliated with Elite in New York, and everyone was coming up to me and saying that San Diego is a great place. “In the last few years, San Diego has earned a reputation as a premier model-development area,” said Fred Sweet, owner of San Diego Model Management, the agency that first signed Seymour in 1984. The reason is not just because Seymour is drop-dead gorgeous, but because San Diego is considered one of the best hunting grounds for future high-fashion models-of both sexes-in the country. It was just so very funny.”īeing approached by agents and photographers is something Seymour has grown accustomed to since moving back to San Diego last December-after three years of living in New York, the fashion capital of the world. I mean, I looked like a pig, with a face full of chopped beef and onions coming out of my mouth. As he walked away, my friend and I both started to crack up. “Only after I told him my parents would never let me go into modeling did he finally give up. “But he persisted, saying he was an agent and that I could make a lot of money. “I told him I went to San Diego State University and was too busy with my studies,” Seymour recalled. Two weeks ago, Seymour was munching on a hamburger in a sidewalk cafe in downtown San Diego when a sharply dressed young man approached her table and told her she should be a model. “The rewards are great,” she said, tiredly, “but the stress is even greater.” ![]() Seymour puts the figure at about $250,000, but said she could have made a lot more if she hadn’t taken so much time off to cool out. He said: “Apart from Linda Evangelista, no supermodel has ever thanked me when she got to the top.In press material provided by John Casablancas Model Center, the San Diego agency that first represented her, Seymour’s annual income is said to exceed $500,000. He described Heidi Klum as a “talentless German sausage” and Naomi Campbell as “odious”. Casablancas quit the industry and went on to denounce the women and their handlers who had come to dominate the catwalk and lucrative photoshoots as “spoilt pains” surrounded by “idiots and leeches”. Although he was not implicated in allegations of wrongdoing, in 2000 he stood down as chairman of the world’s biggest model agency following a controversial undercover BBC documentary about Elite, which showed the company’s European agents boasting of their drug use and sexual conquests of young models. The founder of the Elite Model Management agency was as famous for his playboy lifestyle and good looks as for the panache which revolutionised the comparatively staid world of international glamour in the 1970s.Īlthough he revelled in the company of beautiful women, he was later to publicly turn on some of his most successful protégés, on whose behalf he had helped negotiate stratospheric fees, and to rue his invention of the entire supermodel phenomenon. ![]() John Casablancas, the man credited with creating the era of the supermodel by launching the careers of Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista, has died at the age of 70. ![]()
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