Elite Model Management

Elite Model Management

Elite Model Management, modeling agency.

Elite Model Management has offices in New York, Milan, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Toronto, Barcelona, Seoul, Singapore and Cape Town. It manages 500 female and male models.

 

Élite Model Management
John Casablancas sourrounded by models

Elite Model Management was founded by John Casablancas in 1971 in Paris. Six years later, the head office was moved to New York. The agency is divided into several sectors: there’s the one most closely linked to the world of fashion services and the one that deals more with superstars. There are many well known models in it: Claudia Schiffer, Amber Valletta, Linda Evangelista, Isabella Rossellini and Valeria Mazza. The agency also represents some film celebrities such as Nastassja Kinski, Ornella Muti and Brooke Shields, and also takes care of finding faces and actors for commercials, TV and theatre. In 1983 Casablancas launched Look of the Year with Élite Model Management: a sort of competition in which 75 competitors from 56 countries took part. At the beginning of the new century, it launched the new faces of Natalia Semanova and Gisele Bündchen, Roberta Scotto and Sarah Caloge.