Models Direct’s Hair Models Selected For Studio Photoshoot

YUKO Mayfair Salon & Academy, a company that specialises in Japanese hair straightening, recently came to Models Direct looking for two female models with natural non-highlighted hair to front promotional images for their hair products, including a new product that YUKO is releasing this autumn.

How To Help Your Child Model Find Success

Models Direct has worked with child models for over twenty years and are used to offering advice to parents who would like to give their offspring the best chance of finding this type of work. Here are our top tips on how to help your child model to find success.

Model Diversity Continues To Rise

Models Direct have always been great believers in an inclusive attitude to fashion and modelling, so we always watch the catwalks and campaigns with great interest when fashion week comes around and over the last few years we have been very happy to note a trend towards the use of more diverse models within the fashion sector.

Jayne Pierson Uses Ballet Dancers Not Models At LFW

Last Sunday at London Fashion Week, high-end ready-to-wear designer Jayne Pierson showed her Spring/Summer 2012 Collection, ‘The Mobius Strip’, in a stand-alone show at The Show Space.

The team at Models Direct not only loved the collection, which was inspired by “an intercultural world, organic structures and morphing textures”, but we also loved the fact that the Welsh designer chose prima ballerinas to model her pieces down the catwalk.

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.