Modeling agencies represent fashion models. These agencies are not only responsible for training and assisting models with layout portfolios, they focus on. All business related matters as well. From the moment a model is signed on, agencies handle scheduling photo shoots, meetings and setting up travel arrangements, they take charge and handle all necessary steps to get the models to the shoots. This works and is beneficial to aspiring models because it allows for more of their time to be spent focusing strictly on the photo shoots.
Most models that work without the assistance of an agency find themselves struggling to get their foot in the door; they attend open call auditions and have to compete with hundreds of other aspiring models sometimes waiting long hours only to be turned away before getting an opportunity to be seen or even exchanging a few words and photographs with the designers..
While persistence and passion play an important and crucial role in obtaining the job, agencies work hand in hand with photographers advertising agencies and fashion designers. They have status in the industry which at the end of the day could lead to more opportunities and less “Goodbye and Good Luck’ or as international supermodel Heidi Klum would say while dismissing aspiring fashion designers on her hit reality show ‘Project Runway’ “Auf Wiedersehen".