On March 9th, 2010 The Imagist posted, in a scoop de jour, the following:
"TI is forced to contemplate that astonishingly radical shift that
rocked NYC this morning. In one fell swoop, three of the biggest
modeling agencies in NYC have been thrown into realignment."
Since then the rumors have been flying high. And the following are but a few of the interesting bullet points, coming from the TI
post, and now
the Fashion Spot. If you know something solid, do share, or
email me.
1- Paul Rowland might be moving to head Ford.
2- Supreme might shut down.
3- Mohammed, who heads up the Supreme Board, will be going to
Ford as well.
4- If not shut down "Supreme will be managed by an Italian, the Major one on the Italian market"
5- Louis Chaban will continue to head Women.
6- "This new owner of Ford is brilliant! He basically buys Supreme for the
cost of Paul, Mohammed and two other Supreme bookers and gets the money
maker from Women Direct to boot!! Impressive! For someone not from the
industry he is proving to be a brilliant player on the board. He and
Mr. Fortsman at IMG, as agency owners from outside the industry, are
true forces to be reckoned with."
7- "The newest is that a certain well known agent from the biggest agency
on the block is being approached to jump ship to fill in those empty
chairs now. This is a crazy time."
8- "As far as I know (got this from another agent), Supreme is
not
going to close down"
9- So we'll have Ford, Supreme, & Women as top agencies?
10- "The forth agency is non other than Elite. "the lady" should be running things over there and pulling it together."
11- "Ford, Supreme and Elite.."!
12- "i am so confused. what does this mean? who bought who? ford is now on
the womens team? paul rowland is now head of ford? i am soooo
confused!"
-ya me too13- "Hello No! Why? How is that going to work? Paul Rowland at Ford? Doing what???? How is that going to work? All those Supreme freaks at a money agency?
An Italian?
The lady? Supreme freaks? As much fun as this is, I think we should stop here before it really gets out of hand!
As already noted, these are ALL rumors, so make what you may out of them. But a new decade might be bringing us new powers in the high end fashion & modeling worlds. Though my bet is that it's the unnamed here, who will be the ones to reckon with.
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