Click Model Management
To Whom It May Concern:
Can you tell me if Click Model Management in
New York is a respected agency in the business?
They have called me in for an interview, and I want
to make sure it is not a scam.
Thank you,
I.S.
Hi I.,
Modeling Scams has received no complaints about Click
Model Management.
Click Model Management seems to be
one of the better agencies. It is probably safe to say
they are a "respected agency."
CMM was founded more than 20 years ago —it's not
one of those new ones —in 1980.
They sound like an internet modeling agency (Click),
but the leading word was chosen because the founders
had a background in fashion photography.
Frances Grill, the founder, was an agent for fashion
photographers and then, when the agency was started,
she became an agent for models. So there was clearly
relevant fashion/modeling management industry experience
before starting. (A good sign.)
Today CMM has offices in different cities and different
countries. This is usually a good sign.
In the US they are in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta,
Philadelphia and Boston. Outside the US, Click
Model has offices in Paris and Brazil.
They represent over 600 models. Another good sign. A
number of the models they have represented are big names
(Uma Thurman, Whitney Houston, Elle MacPherson).
See this page for more info:
http://www.clickmodel.com/about_us.html
The flagship website has several dead links and an under
construction page.
There was no reference to magazines in which the models
they represent appeared on their website, but there are
tear sheets in the models' portfolios.
On their site they said: "Click Models presently
represent over 600 models."
They say they represent 600 models, but there aren't
600 models on their website. The women's section for
the New York Models currently has only 18 models.
You may want to ask for more information on this subject.
Where are all the other models?
Is the website just not developed?
Someone said they are a big New York modeling agency.
But only 18 female models for NYC, the modeling capital
of America, would not exactly make them "big," would
it?
The links to all the other cities in America where they
say they have models are dead. So there is no way of
checking online if they represent 600 models.
Overall, there are no obvious red flags... nothing over
which to cancel a scheduled interview.
Good luck,
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