Model Management
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Model Management is a modeling agency
Modeling agency
A modeling agency is a company that represents fashion models, to work for the fashion industry. These agencies earn their income via commission, usually from the deal they make with the model and or the head agency....

 based in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany. Founded by Heidi Gross in 1990, it has been one of the most successful German agencies since it opened its doors.

It covers the entire range of high fashion and top commercial models. Additional features of the agency are press and PR work as well as scouting. Model Management works with Elite Model Look where they discovered top model turned actress Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger
Diane Kruger is a German actress and former fashion model. She is known for roles such as Helen in Troy, Dr. Abigail Chase in National Treasure and its sequel, Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds, Anna in Mr...

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Model Management has been instrumental in promoting the careers of Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer is a German model and occasional actress, who reached the peak of her popularity during the 1990s, initially due to her resemblance to Brigitte Bardot. Schiffer is one of the world's most successful models, having appeared on over 500 magazine covers...

 and Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...

, two of the best known faces in the business. Model Managements' celebrities also include Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los...

 and Inés Sastre
Inés Sastre
Inés Sastre is a Spanish model and actress.-Early life:Sastre's career started at the age of 12, when she was selected for a fast-food commercial with McDonald's. Her first movie appearance occurred in 1988 in El Dorado by Carlos Saura. In 1989, she was awarded the look of the year by the Elite...

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People represented by Model (past and present)

  • Iman Abdulmajid
  • Alessandra Ambrosio
    Alessandra Ambrosio
    Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model. Ambrosio is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret and was chosen as the first spokesmodel for the company's "PINK" line...

  • Drew Barrymore
    Drew Barrymore
    Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered...

  • Malgosia Bela
    Malgosia Bela
    Małgosia Bela is a Polish fashion model and actress.Bela became a successful runway and editorial model in the late nineties, appearing on the covers of many international editions of Vogue, including Vogue Italia and Vogue Paris...

  • Gisele Bündchen
    Gisele Bündchen
    Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find success...

  • Jeisa Chiminazzo
    Jeisa Chiminazzo
    Jeísa Chiminazzo is a Brazilian model.- Personal life :Chiminazzo grew up in Muçum, RS, Brazil, born to parents Ernani and Ivone of Italian and German descent. She has two sisters, Grace and Jéssica...

  • Charlott Cordes
    Charlott Cordes
    Charlott Cordes FMD - profile of Charlott Cordes is a German fashion model from Hamburg, Germany. She was co-winner of the Elite Model Look 2003 in Germany. Cordes placed among the top five at the international final of the contest in Singapore...

  • Emina Cunmulaj
    Emina Cunmulaj
    Emina Cunmulaj , is an Albanian-American model.-Biography:Cunmulaj was born in Michigan, United States to Albanian parents, but moved to Montenegro at the age of four in 1988...

  • Janice Dickinson
    Janice Dickinson
    Janice Doreen Dickinson is an American actress, author, fashion photographer, model and talent agent.Initially notable as a model, she has described herself as the first supermodel. One of the most successful models throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she expanded her profession to reality television...

  • Dewi Driegen
    Dewi Driegen
    Dewi Driegen , is a Dutch model. She is a quarter Indonesian from her mother's side.Driegen was discovered at the age of thirteen by an Elite Model Management Amsterdam modeling scout but decided to stay in school...

  • Susan Eldridge
    Susan Eldridge
    Susan Eldridge is an American model.-Career:After attending the Model Search America Contest in Seattle Washington, Eldridge moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management...

  • Magdalena Frackowiak
    Magdalena Frackowiak
    Magdalena Frackowiak is a Polish fashion model who began appearing on international runways in 2006....

  • Manon von Gerkan
    Manon von Gerkan
    Manon von Gerkan is a German model and actress. who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s. She is the daughter of German architect Meinhard von Gerkan and a former girlfriend of American illusionist and stunt performer David Blaine.- External links :...

  • Esti Ginzborg
    Esti Ginzborg
    Esti Ginzburg, alternate spelling Ginsberg, Ginsborg, is an Israeli model and actress.Ginzburg started modeling at the age of eight with a milk advertisement and at the age of 14 signed a contract with modeling agency Elite Models...

  • Julie Henderson
    Julie Henderson
    Julie Patrice Henderson is an American model known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has also done advertisements for such notable clients as Benetton.- Career :...

  • Vanessa Hessler
  • India Hicks
    India Hicks
    India Amanda Caroline Hicks is a former fashion model, 521st inline to the line of succession to the British Throne.-Early life:...

  • Elizabeth Hurley
    Elizabeth Hurley
    Elizabeth Jane Hurley is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los...

  • Ashley Judd
    Ashley Judd
    Ashley Judd is an American television and film actress, who has played lead roles in films including Ruby in Paradise, Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy, Where the Heart Is and High Crimes...

  • Heidi Klum
    Heidi Klum
    Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...

  • Josie Maran
    Josie Maran
    Johanna Selhorst "Josie" Maran is an American model and actress.-Early life:Maran was born in Menlo Park, California. She attended Castilleja School, an all-girls' school in Palo Alto, California. She is of Russian-Jewish descent on her paternal side. Her first cover was Glamour in 1998...

  • Juliana Martins
    Juliana Martins
    This article is about the Brazilian model. For the Brazilian actress, see Juliana Martins .Juliana Martins is a Brazilian model. She worked for Sports Illustrated, and contested in the 1997 Elite Model Look...

  • Ana Claudia Michels
    Ana Claudia Michels
    Ana Cláudia Michels is a Brazilian model of German descent.Michels started modeling in 1997 with the Mega Agency, when she was introduced to the owners by a friend. She has appeared in catalogs for Victoria's Secret and Le Lis Blanc, a noted Brazilian clothing company, as well as Calvin Klein...

  • Kate Nauta
    Kate Nauta
    Kate or Katie Nauta is an American fashion model, actress and singer. She uses the name 'Katie' in her modeling work, and the name 'Kate' in her film work.-Early life:...

  • Raica Oliveira
    Raica Oliveira
    Raica Oliveira is a Brazilian model known for her work with numerous companies, including Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent, Vogue, Chanel, Lancome, Victoria's Secret, Pepe Jeans, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, JLO, H&M, Elle, Marie Claire, TNG, Ann Taylor and XOXO...

  • Irina Pantaeva
    Irina Pantaeva
    Irina Pantaeva is a former model and actress.Pantaeva was born in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russian SFSR. She is an ethnic Buryat. In 1992, she moved to Paris to become a model...

  • Paulina Porizkova
    Paulina Porizkova
    Pavlína Pořízková-Ocasek is a Czech model and actress. At the age of eighteen years, she became the first woman from Central Europe to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated swim-suit issue. She was the second woman to be featured on the swim-suit issue's front cover consecutive times...

  • Bar Refaeli
    Bar Refaeli
    Bar Refaeli is an Israeli model and occasional actress, most known for her modeling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.-Early life:...

  • Coco Rocha
    Coco Rocha
    Coco Rocha is a Canadian fashion model.- Personal life :Rocha was born in Toronto, Ontario, and moved to Richmond and attended McRoberts secondary school, British Columbia at a very young age. Her family is in the airline industry. Her mother, Juanita, is a flight attendant and her father, Trevor...

  • Inés Sastre
    Inés Sastre
    Inés Sastre is a Spanish model and actress.-Early life:Sastre's career started at the age of 12, when she was selected for a fast-food commercial with McDonald's. Her first movie appearance occurred in 1988 in El Dorado by Carlos Saura. In 1989, she was awarded the look of the year by the Elite...

  • Claudia Schiffer
    Claudia Schiffer
    Claudia Schiffer is a German model and occasional actress, who reached the peak of her popularity during the 1990s, initially due to her resemblance to Brigitte Bardot. Schiffer is one of the world's most successful models, having appeared on over 500 magazine covers...

  • Victoria Silvstedt
    Victoria Silvstedt
    Karen Victoria Silvstedt is a Swedish celebrity model, actress, singer, and television personality.-Background:Born in Skelleftehamn, Silvstedt was raised in a family of five in Bollnäs, having one older sister and one younger brother...

  • Ali Stephens
    Ali Stephens
    Alison "Ali" Stephens is an American fashion model.-Early life:Stephens was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.Stephens participated in cross country running at East High School, placing second in her region in 2006.-Personal life:...

  • Lara Stone
    Lara Stone
    Lara Catherina Stone is a Dutch model.On February 19, 2010, she was tabulated as the world's number-one fashion model on the international modelling site models.com's Top 50 Models Women ranking, a position she maintains as of November 2011...

  • Yfke Sturm
    Yfke Sturm
    Yfke Sturm is a Dutch model.-Youth:Becoming a top international model was the last thing 15-year-old sports enthusiast Yfke Sturm expected until in 1997 the 5'11” teen was approached in her hometown of Almere, Netherlands, by a Elite Model Management scout. Shortly thereafter, she entered the...

  • Alina Vacariu
    Alina Vacariu
    Alina Văcariu is a Romanian actress and model. Among other work, she was Romania's Model of the Year in 1998 , which later resulted in signing a contract with Elite Model Management....

  • Jessica White
    Jessica White
    Jessica White is an American model and occasional actress and DJ.-Career:At the age of 16, White was scouted in her hometown of Buffalo, New York, and had gone to Personal Best modeling school at age sixteen...


External links

  • Model Management Hamburg in the Fashion Model Directory
    Fashion Model Directory
    The Fashion Model Directory is an online database of information about female fashion models, modeling agencies, fashion labels, fashion magazines, fashion designers and fashion editorials. FMD is often denoted as the IMDb of the fashion industry, for being one of the world's largest fashion...

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  • Model-Management.de Model-Management.de
  • Model Management at Models.com.
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