Premier Model Management is one of the world's leading model agencies, founded in 1981 by former model Carole White

Carole White

Carole White is a former model, who founded and manages Premier Model Management.- Early life and Career :White was born in Deal, Kent in 1950 but raised in Ghana...

 and her brother Chris Owen.

The model agency, based in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, has been instrumental in discovering, nurturing and building the careers of some of the industry's greatest names including Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...

, Christy Turlington

Christy Turlington

Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped...

, Linda Evangelista

Linda Evangelista

Linda Evangelista is a Canadian model. She has been featured on over 600 magazine covers and has garnered work on numerous modeling assignments with companies, most recently with L'Oréal.- Early years :...

, 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...

, Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford is an American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s...

, Nadja Auermann

Nadja Auermann

Nadja Auermann is a German model and actress. Fashion designer Valentino once commented on her physical resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. A New York Times fashion columnist, Guy Trebay, wrote of her "ice maiden visage and pole vaulter's legs".-Biography:Auermann arrived in Paris in 1990, signing...

, Tatjana Patiz, 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...

, Kristen McMenamy

Kristen McMenamy

Kristen McMenamy is an American model. She is known for her unconventional, androgynous appearance.-Career:Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, McMenamy's modeling career mainly spanned the years 1985 to 1998, when she worked for many of the world's top designers and international fashion houses...

, Karen Mulder

Karen Mulder

Karen Mulder is a Dutch former model and singer. During the 90s, she had a successful modeling career and was recognized as a world-class "supermodel" by various media...

, Kirsty Hume

Kirsty Hume

Kirsty Hume is a Scottish model who came to prominence in the fashion world in the 1990s. A columnist likened her appearance to a Botticelli angel....

 and more recently Hannah Holman

Hannah Holman

Hannah Holman is an American model.-Early life:The child of a schoolteacher mom and farmer father, Hannah was born on March 12, 1991 in Leamington, Utah.-Career:As of April 29, 2011, Hannah is Models.com ranked #30 for Top Models...

, Tao Okamoto

Tao Okamoto

Tao Okamoto is a Japanese model who was the face of Ralph Lauren.-Career:Okamoto's first agency was Elite to which she signed on in 2006. She made her first runway debut on the Emanuel Ungaro and Martin Grant shows in Paris that same year. The next year, she walked her first New York Fashion Week...

, Katrin Thormann, Karmen Pedaru

Karmen Pedaru

- Early life :Karmen Pedaru was born on 10 May 1990 in Kehra, Estonia. Born into an athletic family, Pedaru became interested in sports at a very early age. From the time she was six, Pedaru played a variety of sports, including basketball, soccer and handball...

, Anna Jagodzinska

Anna Jagodzinska

Anna Jagodzinska is a Polish fashion model. She has appeared on the covers of American, Italian, Australian, Chinese, Portuguese, and German Vogue, L'Officiel, Revue de Modes, and Japanese Numéro. As of March 2009, she was ranked #8 among models at the website models.com.Jagodzinska was born...

, Amanda Laine

Amanda Laine

Amanda Laine is a Canadian model. She was named one of the top ten newcomers in 2008 by models.com.- Early life and career :...

 and Julia Nobis.

Premier Model Management runs five divisions; Women, Men, Future Faces, Premier Division and Special Bookings.

The Premier Women's division's image and reputation has become synonymous with cutting edge editorial with clients including British, Italian, American and French Vogue

Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...

, Elle

Elle

Elle may refer to:*Elle, Central African Republic*Elle , a fashion publication*Ellé, a river in France*Elle , a female given name*Elle , a Sri Lankan game similar to baseball*Ælle of Sussex, a Saxon king...

, LOVE

Love

Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...

, Pop, Dazed & Confused, i-D

I-D

i-D is a British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. i-D was founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980. The first issue was published in the form of a hand-stapled fanzine with text produced on a typewriter...

, 10, Wonderland

Wonderland

-Literature:*Wonderland , the setting of Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*Wonderland , a 1971 novel by Joyce Carol Oates...

 and V Magazine.

The Future Faces division is responsible for discovering and developing new talent. Scouting is very important to the agency with their international scouts discovering models like Alice Gibb, Leomie Anderson, India Farrell, Amanda Laine

Amanda Laine

Amanda Laine is a Canadian model. She was named one of the top ten newcomers in 2008 by models.com.- Early life and career :...

 and Heidi Rock.

The Premier Men's division looks after some of the world's top male models including Tony Ward

Tony Ward

Anthony or Tony Ward may refer to:*Tony Ward , American model, actor, fashion designer and photographer*Tony Ward , Irish rugby union player and footballer...

, Baptiste Giabiconi

Baptiste Giabiconi

Baptiste Giabiconi is a French male model from Marignane, France. He is currently the male face of Chanel, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld.-Career:In 2008, Giabiconi signed with DNA Model Management New York....

, Chad White, Benoni

Benoni

-Places:* Benoni, Gauteng, a city on the East Rand in South Africa** the Benoni meteorite of 1943, which landed in Gauteng, South Africa*St. Benoni, Nova Scotia*Benoni Ross House-People:*Benoni Beheyt*Benoni Whitten*Benoni Irwin*Sydenham Benoni Alexander...

, Jakob Wiechmann and Lucien Thomkins with regular editorials featuring in magazines such as GQ, GQ Style, Arena Homme Plus, L'Officiel

L'Officiel

L'Officiel is a French fashion magazine. It has been published in Paris since 1921 and targets upper-income, educated women aged 25 to 49. As of 2006, it had a circulation of 101,719. A men's edition of L'Officiel and eleven foreign editions are also published...

, V Man and Numero

Numero

Numero may refer to:*Number*Numero sign*Numéro, a French fashion magazine*Numéro#, an electro-pop duo from Montréal*The Numero Group, an American reissue record label...

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The Premier Special Bookings represents a host of international actors, musicians and television presenters such as Sophie Ellis Bextor, Mylene Klass, Amber Atherton, Caprice

Caprice

Caprice, from the Italian capriccio, may refer to:- Art and entertainment :* Caprice , a film starring Mary Pickford* Caprice , a film starring Richard Harris and Doris Day* Caprices , a 1942 French comedy film...

, Holly Valance

Holly Valance

Holly Valance is an Australian actress, singer, and model, who has dual United Kingdom citizenship. Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours...

, Nadine Coyle

Nadine Coyle

Nadine Coyle is an Irish singer, songwriter, actress, and model who rose to fame in the early 2000s as a member of the band Six before becoming a member of successful girl-group Girls Aloud. The group amassed a joint fortune of £25 million by May 2009...

, Nicky Hilton

Nicky Hilton

Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Hilton is an American businesswoman, fashion model, socialite, celebutante, heiress and fashion designer. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton and younger sister of Paris Hilton....

 and Tallulah Harlech.

In addition to representing some of the worlds top models and working with a host of international clients including Topshop

Topshop

Topshop is a British clothes retailer with shops in over 20 countries and online operations in a number of its markets. Its sales come primarily from women's clothing and fashion accessories...

, Chanel

Chanel

Chanel S.A. is a French fashion house founded by the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, well established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods . She gained the name "Coco" while maintaining a career as a singer at a café in France...

, Prada

Prada

Prada S.p.A. is an Italian fashion label specializing in luxury goods for men and women , founded by Mario Prada.-Foundations:...

, Miu Miu

Miu Miu

Miu Miu is a high fashion brand from the Prada fashion house, opened in 1993 and headed by Miuccia Prada. The name of the collection is taken from Miuccia Prada’s nickname.-Stores:...

, Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...

, Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton Malletier – commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton , or shortened to LV – is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label is well known for its LV monogram, which is featured on most products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes,...

, Dior

Dior

Dior can mean:* Christian Dior SA, a French clothing retailer* In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth legendarium:**Dior Eluchíl, a Half-elven of the First Age**Dior , a Steward of GondorDior is a surname, and may refer to:...

, Gucci

Gucci

The House of Gucci, better known simply as Gucci , is an Italian fashion and leather goods label, part of the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company PPR...

, Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein

Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....

, Givenchy

Givenchy

Givenchy is a French brand of clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics with Parfums Givenchy.The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy and is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter...

, Jill Sander, Burberry

Burberry

Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing, fragrance, and fashion accessories. Its distinctive tartan pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks. Burberry is most famous for its iconic trench coat, which was invented by founder Thomas Burberry...

, Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows...

, Fendi

Fendi

Fendi is an Italian high fashion house best known for its "baguette" handbags. It was launched in 1925 as a fur and leather shop in Rome, but today is a multinational luxury goods brand owned by LVMH...

 and Christopher Kane

Christopher Kane

-Biography:Kane was born as the youngest of five children in Newarthill, near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, to an engineer and draughtsman and housewife mother....

, Premier has also been involved in packaging and presenting 'branding' opportunities, creating and developing a range of fragrances and other branded products, most notably for Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...

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The Premier Brand name was launched onto UK and international TV screens with David Bailey’s ‘Model close up,’ Channel 4’s highest rated programme in 1998 which was sold to 48 countries.

In 2011, Premier Model Agency was the subject of a documentary series: "The Model Agency", produced by Maverick Television

Maverick Television

Maverick Television is a television and multiplatform production company with offices in Birmingham, England and London, England.Notable programmes produced include the health brand Embarrassing Bodies, the make-over show 10 Years Younger and How to Look Good Naked, all produced for Channel 4.In...

 for Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

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