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More Updates From Paul Rowland's Supreme-to-Ford Agency Switch

fashionologie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:19:06 PDT

>> Last week, the New York modeling agency scene experienced a great shakeup when Women and Supreme founder Paul Rowland and Ford women's division head Caroline Poznanski essentially switched places. The fallout is expected to take weeks to settle, but in the meantime, some models have already started switching agencies to stay with their original management - Tao Okamoto and Hanne Gaby Odiele among those reported yesterday, and today, word comes of more movement: Lakshmi Menon has followed her agent Poznanski to Supreme, while Ranya Mordanova, Daiane Conterato, Karolin Wolter are all said to have moved from Supreme to Ford.

Fashionista cites a source saying that Chanel Iman, too, has left Ford to follow her booker to Supreme, while it appears that Jacquelyn Jablonski is staying put at Ford for the time being. But the source also notes: “No one is clear if models are moving back and forth - it’s all up in the air.” In the same vein, The Imagist reports: "A new wrinkle emerged this morning around the allegation that the former head of one of the world's most powerful agencies is set to join a certain Dream Team currently in formation."

Musical Chairs at Modeling Agencies As Supreme and Women Founder Paul Rowland Leaves for Ford

fashionologie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:33:37 PDT

>> Last week, rumors of a major shift in the New York modeling agency setup floated around; eventually, it came out that Paul Rowland, the founder of Women Management and its Supreme offshoot, was leaving Supreme to head up the women's division at Ford.

According to Page Six's industry insider, Rowland, who sold the company which he founded in 1988 a few years ago, "had a huge salary there, but wasn't really getting along with management. So basically, he just left." Ford "cleaned house and canned everyone," says another source, to make way for Rowland and the agents he was bringing with him.

Caroline Poznanski, meanwhile, who ran Ford's women's division until Rowland's arrival, has been chosen by Supreme to take Rowland's old job. "It's one big game of musical chairs," reports the source. "There were rumors around that Supreme was just going to close, but instead they hired Poznanski and absorbed some other people who had been let go from Ford."

One booker notes: "The models at these places are in a tailspin. A lot, including [Ford girls] Chanel Iman and Jacquelyn Jablonski, don't know if they're staying or going. There will likely be a spate of lawsuits because both Paul and Caroline are trying to bring their girls over, but they have noncompetes in their contracts."

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Hanne-Gaby Odiele, Iris Strubegger, Tao Okamoto Go Balletic for Supreme's New York Show Package

fashionologie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:17:40 PST

>> Couture kicked off in Paris today, but back in New York plans are being laid for ready-to-wear fashion week - just two and a half weeks away. Supreme Management released their show package for New York Fashion Week today, with the likes of Alana Zimmer, Hanne-Gaby Odiele, and promising newcomer Reina Montero captured in darkly balletic portraits by agency founder and photography dabbler Paul Rowland. Missing from the lineup are Cecilia Mendez, Flo Gennaro (who just walked Dior couture runway today), and last seaons' Prada closer Kate Kosushkina, but perhaps they'll pop up anyway. Full show package at Models.com.

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fashionologie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:06:21 PDT

>> THE MODELIZER - Karolin Wolter, who topped a number of Fall 2009 newcomer lists after opening Jil Sander, took a risk yesterday - especially in the middle of her first campaign casting season - and cut her hair off. Is doing the chop the new way of being at Supreme? It wasn't that long ago that Iris Strubegger debuted a similar crop. [Supreme Management Being]

fashionologie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:43:01 PST

>> THE MODELIZER -She's a little Coco Rocha, a little Lily Donaldson, and now she's also the newest winner of the V Magazine/Supreme model search. All 16 year-old Canadian Addison Gill can hope for is to follow in the successful footsteps of previous winner Amanda Laine; Supposedly, she's already well on her way: According to Models.com, you can "Brace yourselves for a full fledged Addison moment coming very soon." [Daily Feed]

fashionologie — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:57:03 PDT

>> THE MODELIZER -Legendary model Veruschka is in town, celebrating the arrival of her new eponymous Assouline book before jetting off tomorrow because she doesn't "get into fashion" anymore. You can take the woman out of fashion, but you can't take fashion out of the woman - she may not be interested in attending shows, but Veruschka did stop by the Supreme offices to shoot a few polaroids. [FWD, Of the Minute]

Vanessa Traina and Harley Viera-Newton, Coming to a Runway Near You?

fashionologie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:18:25 PDT

»Vanessa Traina and Harley Viera-Newton have Elite+ show cards going out for Spring 2009 [Of the Minute]

»Paul Starr, makeup artist to Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Dolce & Gabbana, mysteriously passed away Tuesday [BellaSugar]

»Coco Rocha acts out for Barneys Fall catalog [The Cut]

»Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann has a new cause [FWD]

»Lakshmi Menon has some upcoming work in Vogue Paris [Models.com]

»Spring 2009 show packages galore: Supreme, Muse, Ford, Elite [Of the Minute]

One of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's New The Row Handbags Is Called the 'Twin'

fashionologie — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:55:27 PDT

>> They just pocketed their first CFDA Award nomination, but it hasn't been an easy road. With the stigma attached to celebrity lines, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen say retailers were originally skeptical about The Row and whether they were actually designing it themselves. “People would drill us about fabric, where we’d make it,” Mary-Kate told Vogue in the magazine's April 2011 issue. “The first season, customers bought it, so the stores came back. And drilled us again.”

Even though they were never formally trained, the Olsens maintain that their design education started long ago. "We had a collection with Walmart at twelve," Ashley notes, "Which was the upper tier of the tween market. It was before celebrity designers.” “And we were really designing it,” adds Mary-Kate. “It would be jeans, a bit bohemian, or with a little blazer. It was really fashion-forward.”

Now, with The Row, the Olsens are all about the finishing touches: they produce gloves with fingertips made in high-tech treated leather, so you don't have to take them off to use a touchscreen. And, they just debuted their first bags on The Row's Fall 2011 runway, which are finished with rectangular brass snaps boasting tiny The Row logos - "I’m obsessed with branding," Ashley says - and spans, Vogue reports, a "supremely supple, superdeluxe range of crocodile and snakeskin backpacks, computer bags, and clutches. One design, which ranges from mini-shoulder bags to totes, has two compartments sandwiched together, with textured skin on one side, suede on the other. It’s called the Twin."

So what does the future hold for the twins? “The thing about us,” Mary-Kate says, “is we think big. Huge.” Ashley, meanwhile, gets a little more specific: “I want to run a studio. I’d probably like to manage other people on their brands. It could be an artist. A young designer. It could be an existing brand.”

fashionologie — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:41:07 PDT

>> Chanel Iman Switches to IMG in Efforts to Become Household Name? - Chanel Iman, who has been with the same management since the beginning of her career - first at Ford and then following them to Supreme - has switched agencies to IMG. Iman, who signed a three-year contract with Victoria’s Secret last November, further increasing her presence on a national scale, has said in the past that she wants to become a Victoria's Secret Angel; IMG houses a number of Angels past and present: Heidi Klum, Miranda Kerr, Gisele Bundchen, and Karolina Kurkova among them. Many see the move as a bid by Iman to become a household name. “I feel like, with the move to Lincoln Center and Fashion’s Night Out going global, this season is all about change and evolving." said the model. "I have wanted that in my career as well, which is why I’m so excited to be with IMG now and working with such a great team. It’s the celebration of a new me." [DFR]

Tasha Tilberg, Ymre Stiekema Go '60s Avedon for Show Package; Irina Lazareanu To Make Runway Return?

fashionologie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:09:41 PDT

>> Spring 2010 show packages with New York Fashion Week just over a week away: Supreme went goth with the help of photographer Hanna Liden, Major Model Management enlisted the help of student artist Rachel Chiu to illustrate their roster, and Irina Lazareanu looks poised to make a runway return - her card is in the mix at Marilyn. But thus far, the most eye-catching rests with One Management - they had icons like Ann Catherine Lacroix, Tasha Tilberg, and Colette Pechekhonova, plus Prada favorite Ymre Stiekema, all done up '60s Richard Avedon-style, complete with helmet from his 1965 Harper's Bazaar cover. Accompanying video here.

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