Model agency: Become a model & book in Milan
Milan, home of fashion. Few cities in the world are as fashionable as they are. Twice a year the Milan Fashion Week takes place there, bringing hundreds of the biggest fashion brands and designers to the city. There are regular fashion shows by the hottest designers in the world. CM Models supports you on your way there. As an international model agency we offer you the know how about modeling.
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Every year hundreds of young models are drawn to Milan in particular. Media representatives, designers and tourists also travel to Milan year after year. Every year the city inspires with the Milan Fashion Week and sets new trends in the fashion world. As a model you have a lot of chances but also a lot of competition. The right contacts of the management, the network, all this determines your personal strengths, how far you get. To make sure you take the right step, only a few clicks are missing for your model application for Milan!
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Apply now as a model with CM Models. For jobs in advertising productions, fashion and magazines. Send us now your Polaroids with current measurements, we are looking forward to your application!
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Models in Milan: Application, Booking, Agency
As a model and media agency we have many services for advertising agencies and brands, such as small video clips for Youtube and Co. Quick selection? Read a little more about Modelagentur here. We take over your Fashion Show with our Know How as Fashion Show Agency. Model search and some extra attention? Here you can find more about our Casting Agency. We are happy to give your team a first media consultation for digital strategies and campaigns: contact.
For advertising agencies, casting agencies and photographers
Everything from a single source: mediation, booking, organisation – that is the advantage of our agency. The fewer agreements are required during production, the less valuable time is wasted. You will find the perfect casting cast in our card index. Our project and marketing managers are committed to efficiently providing you with models in the capital city. Smart campaign management, strong media and an exclusive contact network in Berlin. Our models convince in every job! Because often models are already booked for normal commercial photo shootings who bring unique talents with them, such as dancing skills, musical talent or even sporting interest. Also spontaneous talking belongs to it – Multitalents!
Become a model: Prerequisites
Models in Milan are under particular competitive pressure. One of the basic requirements is height. For years, a minimum size of 1.75 m has counted as one of the tickets for a professional model career (as a rule, there are always exceptions, but more rarely). Even if the exceptions like Kate Moss are always making headlines, these models are still the exception of the rule for a professional model agency. As a second criterion, age is also a decisive factor. Most newcomers start modeling at the age of 16 to 20. Some models are also discovered earlier. These are usually occasional part-time jobs, which always require the consent of the parents until they reach the age of majority. Other features also play an important role in modeling. First and foremost, this includes pure skin with invisible pores and well-groomed hair that makes a variety of different looks possible.
If you have exactly these basic requirements and have been thinking about working as a model for a long time, you can take the first step into your modeling career with an application to a Milan model agency. This requires both a formal cover letter and pictures taken by a professional photographer. Anyone who has already worked as a model usually has a model folder that should not be missing at any job interview. Serious agencies require neither for the exception in their card index nor the creation of a sedcard money from their models. The expenses count as an investment, since the agencies also earn money with the later bookings of their models. Another basic requirement for working as a model is to prove discipline. This is valid for every kind of booking as well as for the castings completed before.
Casting Planning and Help
We make the perfect selection possible with experienced bookers and a professional team. Our Casting Agency takes care of the entire organization for your casting in Milan: model, influencer / actor or show presenter. As an agency for models for Milan, we always strive to create the perfect production result for our clients. We ensure serious placement of jobs in TV series, feature films and advertising for high-quality brands.
Our casting agency team takes care of the complete project for your team in Milan: placement research, casting and project management. Our casting agency for models offers a high-quality international casting network.
Jobs & Booking for advertising and fashion
As a model, the tasks are extremely varied. In advertising it starts with shootings for Instagram, for example product photos as hand models, when you get better online shop photos and with a lot of practice also the first commercials. Then there’s the huge field of fashion: from lookbooks for star designers to fashion shows.
Mode and fashion show
Many young models first think of the fashion show! Did you know? Before you start at a fashion show, your first bookings are usually in the showroom. Designers present their fashion in the showroom. Customers take a look at the parts you present as a model. Here you get to know designers, customers but also punctuality and discipline. If you convince your customers and therefore also your agency, you will also get jobs for shows. If you also have the perfect measurements, you can also work internationally and travel from Milan to major cities such as Paris, London and New York. Here you can run for the greatest designers in the world. A real dream for every new model from Milan!
Advertising, online shop and social media
Advertising is a multifaceted field full of different challenges. Beside the already mentioned photo shootings for Instagram but also online shops there are much bigger challenges. Just think of an outdoor shooting where you have to run, laugh and interact with 4 other models at the same time. All 5 models must always be on point when the camera is released, so that your photographer is guaranteed to have strong photos to choose from. Commercials are even more challenging, think of speaking roles, acting and of course travel planning.
Influencer Marketing and Concept
Since we work a lot with fashion and advertising agencies and young models, Instagram, Youtube but also Tik Tok is always very close. That’s why many customers in Milan come back to us for influencer marketing and concept. Social media marketing goes much deeper, from concept and strategy to building reach, content creation and, of course, monitoring. But at the beginning there is always the analysis.
We check and analyse the proven media indicators and opportunities for your advertising campaign in Berlin or nationwide, also for later reports (monitoring = quality evaluation of the individual campaigns). When it comes to advertising campaigns and concepts for multimedia marketing, we as a media agency take a very close look at possible opportunities and potentials within the target group. With 3.5 million, Berlin is thus one of the largest German cities – better, Berlin is the largest city and thus also holds the most potential.
Every day users from Berlin alone give 2,369,905 Likes, send 5,266,455 messages to friends and family or upload 184,326 pictures daily. In addition, there are 2,501,566 interactions in social networks every day – key figures above key figures. To advertise the right target group here is a real feat! Companies, whether fashion or more traditional industries, invest statistically over 370 million euros, only in online advertising, only in Berlin. Almost half a billion euros for digital advertising every year. At prime time, around 7 p.m. – 8 p.m., there are even 739,207 users parallel in the social networks – the best advertising time, just like on TV. Berlin thus has a decisive influence on the use of media in Berlin. This is why influencer marketing is also gaining influence. We help you to find the right way.
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Become a model – fashion, advertising and magazines
A not insignificant part of the profession consists of waiting times, working hours that often last well into the night and the persistence in poses for the perfect picture. All this is as much a part of the work as a model as the make-up and hairdressing of the hair. Since the young girls or male models are only a part of a whole team, it is necessary to write back one’s own ego and very quickly show a professional work attitude in order to be really successful as a model. Therefore the punctuality of a model is one of the keys to success. This is especially true for outdoor shootings, where often only little time is left to exploit the perfect lighting conditions. Discipline and punctuality have been the cradle of many German models not only in Milan.
Not to be underestimated in a life as a model is also the ability to take criticism to heart, but not to lose the fun at work because of the frequent rejection during the castings. Often those responsible already have an exact picture of the models for their campaigns in their heads, where even small details can be the deciding factor for a rejection. For a successful modeling career it is therefore a great advantage to build a network. With the contacts to photographers or other persons from the fashion industry or advertising it is easier to remain in the memory and be so with a future project in the shortlist. The dependence on castings is far less strong through the network than without these additional opportunities and possibilities.
Minimum size: dimensions and weight
The “right” measurements and the “perfect” weight are always an issue for models, right from the first second. There is no one ideal picture, different areas demand different basics. For high fashion, slim and big applies, for commercial (advertising) the conditions are already more flexible. The requirements also vary depending on whether you only want to work nationally or internationally. Roughly the sizes can be divided in such a way. The closer you are to these dimensions, the better the requirements – apart from personality.
- Women
Body size for Fashion: 176 – 180cm / International
Slim figure, usually long hair - Men
Body size for Fashion: 186 – 190cm / International
Slim or slightly sporty figure
Model application: cover letter and photos
The most important rule is to always keep your cover letter short – best of all, always use the application form on the website. What’s the matter with you? Here all important information is already requested, so you can’t forget anything, but you don’t invest too much time for your model agency cover letter and your application. Because in a renowned and good model agency, sometimes 50 to 100 applications arrive daily. If there is only one scout in the agency, he has only a few seconds for each application, besides the actual agency work. That’s why you have to score by your photo, not by a long cover letter. You’ll learn how to do that here: Photos for application.
Model agency: Introduction and interview
The stage fright rises with every job interview, of course also with the presentation in the model agency. You have to know one thing, top agencies like ours and others are super sweet! What’s the matter with you? Photo shootings and video shoots are all about joy, fun and laughter – almost always. That’s why you need a trustful cooperation with your Model Management. That’s why you start friendly from the first minute and it stays that way! That’s why you don’t have to have stage fright, just be natural! Here are some more tips for your Photos for application.
Prerequisites: Modeling with ambition and discipline
Requirements for models are very different, depending on the market you want to work in. This is where you tell the difference:
- National, Intercontinental or International?
- High Fashion and Haute Couture or Commercial (Advertising)?
- Age and competition?
Best Agers over 60 have very little competition, New Faces is a different story! If you make it to cities like New York, Paris or Milan, you will also see it at castings. But there are also many in Berlin who want to become models. So the important thing for you is always patience, ambition and discipline. Because no one becomes a star overnight.
Fashion show: Haute Couture & Pret-A-Porter
You’ve never heard of High Fashion, Haute Couture or Pret-A-Porter? Then read through our basics here so that you know exactly what to expect when you next small talk or when you first visit the model agency.
Multi Talents – Also for international advertising productions
You shoot commercials as a model not only for the German market, often the commercials are also published in other countries all over the world.
Advertising spots for streaming, TV and cinema
Once you’ve done it, there are many doors open for you. A good modeling agency is your key to international partner agencies, advertising agencies, creative directors, casting agencies and many more. This is of course the step into international jobs, as well as here Janine and Mark for Henkell. A great success and your way to great jobs, trips and interesting people around models, photographers and many others.
Modeling in Milan
Milanese models who believe glamorous photo shootings and the elegant walk across the catwalk are the only facets of the profession quickly experience the other sides of the model’s everyday life. This refers, for example, to the competitive situation that awaits the predominantly young girls not only at the model agency, but also at the castings. In these cases, fixed appointments are only allocated in individual cases, which is why waiting times make up a large part of everyday life. Additionally a model earns money only with the jobs but not with the castings. However, there is no guarantee to land a coveted job with a casting. But one should not lose courage and think positively.
Between dream job and reality
The opinion as a model to earn a lot of money and lead a luxurious life in the shortest possible time, which is still prevalent today, becomes reality only for very few models. For the majority of models in Berlin or other cities, this profession is a full-time job that leaves little free time or room for other activities. Instead of starting out in an apartment of their own, the modeling career begins mainly with other models in a shared flat that can only rarely compete with the standard they are accustomed to at home. Life in these shared flats also includes constantly changing roommates, so there is hardly any time to get to know each other better or to make deeper friendships. As a model you are on the road a lot and have to be prepared for every situation. Have a look at the Model Basics about travel, castings and jobs.
Springboard to the international career between Paris and New York
Milan is still regarded by many models as a springboard to the international model metropolises like Paris, Rome or New York. Once here, the international competition of the most beautiful models from all six continents reaches a new level. Because each of the models that has made it this far has the same goal to run the big fashion weeks and present the latest collections of the most famous designers. Of course, only those models who have achieved exactly this goal with the help of a model agency, such as Gigi Hadid, become publicly known. The many unknown faces of the model industry are quickly forgotten. What distinguishes these lucky few today is not only their jobs but also the promotion of their own person in the social networks. From Instagram to Facebook, a successful modeling career today is associated with much more initiative than just photo shoots or catwalks. In the end, however, it is always the luck that decides which model people will still remember in 10 or 20 years.
Modeljobs: waiting time and professionalism
In the job a model everyday life in Milan consists again and again also of waiting times. For the model, this means sitting still for several minutes or even hours during make-up and styling or waiting for the set to be set up for a shooting. Anyone who loses patience here not only behaves unprofessionally, but also leaves a negative impression on the customer. This does not only apply to behaviour, however, since the body of a model must also become the figurehead of one’s own professionalism. To appear on the set with oily hair or skin impurities is therefore just as much a no go for a successful model as to let yourself go. This is what the customers expect from the models they book as well as from the model agency, since each shooting is usually associated with a tight schedule and an exact budget, which leave little room for a new casting. In this respect, everyday life on set has little in common with what casting shows convey to models. After all, in the real working world of a model, it is not the judgement of a jury that counts, but rather that the model fits the respective collection or advertising concept. Being in the right place at the right time is therefore the true catalyst for a long career as a model.
Apply now as a model with CM Models. For jobs in advertising productions, fashion and magazines. Send us now your Polaroids with current measurements, we are looking forward to your application!
Milan
Shopping in Milan
Whatever the lady, the gentleman and also the child desire made of real leather, they will find it in Milan. With the international leather goods fair Mipel – the Bagshow, a wonderful fashion highlight takes place year after year that attracts customers, dealers and fashion tsars from all over the world. But anyone who reduces Milan to shoes, handbags and other accessories in terms of fashion is mistaken. Many Italian fashion houses have their headquarters here and these include sizes such as Gucci, Versace, Armani or Max Mara. The Milano Moda Donna fashion fair takes place twice a year, in February and October. So all eyes look not only to Milan, but also to Milan when it comes to new collections of fashion and accessories. Nothing passes Milan by and Italian Modedesigner show the rest of the world not only how to make good fashion, but also how to bring it profitably to women and men. If you visit Milan, you shouldn’t go back home without a nice handbag or a pair of great Italian shoes. You’ll soon find all the tips about shopping here:
- Shopping in Milan
Hotels in Milan
Directly next to the Duomo, a wonderful gothic-style cathedral and very close to the fashion district is one of the most elegant shopping arcades ever. On top of the price of the already much too expensive café in the proximity of Italian sightseeings, one has to add a hot spot surcharge here once again. And yet there is hardly a better place in Milan to get out of the hectic hustle and bustle and simply enjoy it as an outsider than the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. To experience and enjoy the whole city it is worth to consider a hotel there. To make it easier for you to find a hotel, we have selected the best hotels for your short trip to Milan:
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Italian designer fashion
You can find the best designer pieces of furniture and designer goods in the streets of the golden triangle – Corso Matteoti, via Durini and via Manzoni, indeed, here are the prices are very high. Also in the area all around Brera which once was popular for artists you can find excluding boutiques and art galleries. Especially nicely you can wander through galleries in the pelican crossing via Fiori Chiari where are a few nice cafés. This area is also liked by antiquarians who build up booths here every third Saturday in the month. Also the classical art market taking place on week-ends on the shores of the channel Naviglio grandee is extremely liked. Read more about Model Agency in Germany. We will help you finding the best model for your fashion show in Milan!
Milan: Italy’s fashion capital of the north
Whatever desire the lady, the Lord and the child made of genuine leather, in Milan they will find it. The International Leather Goods Fair Mipel – the Bagshow place every year a magnificent fashion highlight instead, the customers, dealers and fashion czar attracts from around the world. But who reduces Milan in terms of fashion in shoes, handbags and other accessories, is mistaken. Many Italian fashion houses have their headquarters here, and this one counts the likes of Gucci, Versace, Armani or Max Mara. Twice in the year, in February and in October people meet to Fashion Fair Milano Moda Donna. So look at all the eyes not only to Milan, but also to Milan, when it comes to new collections in fashion and accessories. At Milan nothing passes and Italian fashion designers to show the rest of the world how to do good not only fashion but help deliver them profitably to the woman and the man. Visitors to Milan should not go without a nice handbag or some great, Italian shoes back home.
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