When I first got an agent in New York, I slept on the owner’s sofabed at his apartment. This was the accommodations the agency provided for me. I’d also slept on my booker’s sofabed in Milan, so it wasn’t a huge surprise. When the agency owner hit on me one night, it...

There are fashion shows and then there are Fashion Shows. If we’re talking about New York Fashion Week shows, which are wrapping up on Thursday, then there are FASHION SHOWS too. You are unlikely to walk out of your house in Middle America, into the local modeling agency, and onto a...

On February 9, model and Columbia grad Sara Ziff is launching the Model Alliance, a nonprofit that will advocate for models’ rights. Actors have SAG; models, who are often much younger than the general labor force, have no union and no place to turn if their agent screws them out of money,...