David Ikuepamitan on Model’s Discovery, Family and Hopes for the future
David, a 20 years old model from Ondo state Nigeria, and presently a model in London has revealed some key notes about the modelling industry, his hopes, and guides for new and aspiring models. David is also listed on model.com as David Ikuepamitan and has walked the runway for Daniel W. Fletcher, Paria Farzaneh, Ahluwalia, and AGR during the S/S 23 Fashion show as well as being featured on Dazed Magazine, Citizen Magazine, and The Pop Magazine. How were you discovered? It was after secondary school when I started working to earn some money. On one of my trips to Lagos Island for business, I met up with a customer…
The Effect of Age in Modeling
Youthfulness often comes with activeness, elegance, and vibes and this is what most clients want. Following the youthful demands of models by most clients, modeling agencies tend to drift towards this path of representing young models who can still maintain their youthful looks over the test of time. However, this doesn’t mean those mature models aren’t needed. Of course, mature models are needed, byt they mostly take part in commercial modeling and not the high fashion niche and editorial most modeling agencies look out for. Also, young models between the age of 16-20 are mostly scouted because of the hope of them being taller than their current height. For instance,…
Travel cost ; How to spend less for a job trip
Traveling for jobs now, a model isn’t an odd thing. As you progress in the industry you are more likely to be booked for jobs outside your province and that will require traveling (alot). In the light of this, we have often heard of a good number of models running into debt or not even sure of where to start from when booked out to the states or when traveling for an audition. Mirable (not her real name ) a 21 years old model for south Sudan revealed falling out of the industry due to the debt incurred due to travel expenses which she had to pay back through…