Fashion models

What is a fashion model?

A fashion model is a woman or a man who wears clothes to display fashion. Meaning her/his role as a model, is to promote the newest fashion and trends.

How to become a Fashion Model?

While the education requirements to become a fashion model are rather flexible, there are many skills you’ll need to possess to forge a successful modeling career. You’ll need to be flexible, dependable, reliable, hardworking and capable of taking direction. Whether you are a runway model or acting in a television commercial, you need to understand and be able to convey the emotion and attitude of the brand you’re representing. However in relation to academics, the relevant associate’s degree or bachelors’ are, for example, fashion design, accessories design, fashion merchandising and photography. Those studies take about 2 to 4 years to achieve, depending on if it’s an associate degree or a bachelor’s degree.

Who can be a Fashion Model?

As in every modeling discipline, people aspiring to become a model, or in this case a fashion model, you should know and be very confident on why you would fit in this industry. This means, yes you do need a beautiful face and body, but as you may have noticed, it isn’t that uncommon to see people that are “good looking”, so why isn’t everyone a model? Well, the answer can be that while being a model, more specifically a fashion model, you will need to be the type of person that will succeed into capturing the public eyes; because you have an “added” value, a strong character within you traits and your physical aspect expresses something unique. This is what will make you become a successful fashion model. As mentioned before, it isn’t an easy job nor a career accessible to all. You must differentiate yourself, come with your baggage full of self-confidence, great appearance, healthy skin and hair, fitted body and be able to show what you are worth.

Jobs for Fashion Models

The career opportunity as a fashion model is a wide one. There are various areas where you can specialize, such as:

Photographic, advertising and TV commercial; where you will firstly pose for photographers or directors in a studio or any other location and you must take the directions from this same photographer or director and follow them strictly, for TV commercial modeling you will be asked to act or deliver some lines.

You can also become a professional in the fashion and catwalk modeling, where you will be working closely with stylists, make-up and hair artists, producers and directors. Much of your time will also be spent in going to castings for jobs, keeping your contacts up-to-date and looking carefully after your appearance.

If you want to be an in-house live model for designers and clothing wholesalers, you will be the figure showing the finished clothing to fashion buyers and private customers.

You also have the opportunity to become an alternative, pinup or gothic model.

And finally, you could also work in promotional modeling, where you will be demonstrating non-fashion items at product launches and trade fairs.

Looking for a Fashion Model?

If you are working as a model scout, photographer, or an agency director and you are interested into finding the perfect or perfects fashion model(s), you have chosen the correct path. Here on modelmanagement.com there are a high number of amazing fashion models that are awaiting for their career to grow and to have new experiences. Have a look at them, and believe us that you will not be disappointed. Also, don’t miss out on all the other different types of models you will be able to find every model style you are looking for; from glamour models to fitness models, to plus size models.