Elite Model Management

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Elite Model Management (Elite) is a modeling agency founded in Paris, France, in 1972 by John Casablancas and Alain Kittler.^[1] Elite today manages over 800 models from 5 continents, making it the biggest modeling agency in the world. It offers international coverage with 36 agencies in its network. Its contest - the Elite Model Look - is a model scouting organisation with over 350,000 contestants in more than 55 countries, and is considered to be the world's most famous modeling contest.

Elite World S.A. is the parent company of Elite Model Management. The headquarters of Elite World S.A. are in Luxembourg. The board of Elite Wold S.A. comprises Bernard Hennet, Andrew Gleeson and Thomas Röggla. Mr Röggla owns over 25% of the shares in Elite World S.A. and is currently the biggest shareholder. The board members are holding more than 50% of the share capital in total.

1 Fashion models represented by Elite (past and present)
2 Links with America's Next Top Model
3 Celebrities represented by Elite (past and present)
4 Elite international locations
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Fashion models represented by Elite (past and present)

[edit] Links with America's Next Top Model

Elite is currently the modeling agency which the winner of the popular CW Network Show America's Next Top Model. Currently, the winners they have signed are:

Elite have also signed girls who have not won America's Next Top Model, these include:

Samantha Francis - Contestant on Cycle 8, placed 12th
Shannon Stewart - Contestant on Cycle 1, placed 2nd
Ann Markley - Contestant on Cycle 3, placed 4th
Mollie Sue Steenis-Gondi - Contestant on Cycle 6, placed 9th
Sarah VonderHaar - Contestant on Cycle 8, placed 8th
Megg Morales - Contestant on Cycle 7, placed 10th

Some girls have left Elite, these include:

Sara Albert - Contestant on Cycle 6, placed 4th
Nicole Linkletter - Winner of Cycle 5, originally signed with Ford Models, currently signed with Nous^[2]
Kim Stolz - Contestant on Cycle 5, placed 5th

Elite have also signed girls who have won Top Model in another country, these include:

Alice Burdeu - Winner of Cycle 3 of Australia's Next Top Model
Lauren McAvoy - Winner of Cycle 3 of Britain's Next Top Model
The winners of Spain's Next Top Model, also known as Supermodelo, are in these agency

[edit] Celebrities represented by Elite (past and present)

[edit] Elite international locations

Elite's headquarters are in Paris and the agency has a large network of international offices. The United Kingdom is the only country without an elite model management reason being that the british equivalent to elite is Models 1 so there would be to much competition so Models 1 and elite are affiliated and considered as one. Aside from US offices in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Chicago, there are Elite Model Managements in the following locations:^[3]

[edit] References

^ Elite Model Management Lux. S.A. - Investment Research page 4 - August 25, 2006
^ Grand Forks Herald
^ Elite Model Management

[edit] External links

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