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Elza Luijendijk: what do you get when you combine classic looks with a FW12 Prada Exclusive? Well if you're Elza, you get an SS17 Prada look -- a second consecutive season on the Prada runway.

Arizona Muse exiting the SS17 BCBG Max Azria show. She was virtually unknown at this time.

Want to know which show at New York Fashion Week will give the first clue as to who the next big face will be this season? Try BCBG Max Azria. It's on Day 2 of New York Fashion Week and comes before Marc Jacobs (mid week) and Calvin Klein (last day).

At this same time last season, Arizona Muse who was virtually unknown was already on Casting Director Russell Marsh's radar. She opened and closed BCBG Max Azria. Russell Marsh later cast Arizona for the SS17 Prada show and with Miucci Prada's final go ahead, Arizona Opened and Closed Prada.

A similar pattern of virtually prophetic insight by Casting Director Russell Marsh can also be understood by looking back at the SS17 and SS17 BCBG Max Azria shows. In SS17, Russell cast a virtually unknown Frida Gustavsson and Jacquelyn Jablonski. And for SS17, Russell cast a rookie face unknown to the public at the time named Constance Jablonski.

Granted, there are other shows and many other factors that contribute to a models runway success, but BCBG Max Azria because of it's place on the New York Fashion Week schedule on Day 2 is the perfect place to begin looking for at least one big new face, possibly the next Constance, Jacquelyn, or Arizona.

Be sure to check back on the blog on September 8/9th for an update from backstage at the BCBG Max Azria show as I've just been confirmed by PR!

With fashion month just around the corner, I thought this interview I did with modeling industry icon Faith Kates would add some balanced insight into the world of modeling.

Faith Kates is a modeling industry legend. She started NEXT Model Management in 1989. Recently, we sat down to talk all things modeling. Needless to say, it was a great learning experience. Enclosed are few snippets from our conversation. And to Faith and the people at NEXT, thank you!

WHY THE SECOND SEASON IN A MODELS CAREER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FIRST

Faith: Realistically, there's so many girls that have gotten ruined because they come the first season, they're not ready to do those shows and they do them. And the second season they're like, 'but she couldn't walk last season.' You know our job as agents is to prepare these models to get them out there, so that they do their job perfectly. ...we want to get them out there and we want them to know how to walk. I always say if you can get them a couple of good shows so they have some confidence. Think about being young from Latvia...this is the first time you've ever been on airplane and you walk out from behind the stage. You walk out and you're in shoes this high (gestures to a 5" stiletto) and there's a thousand people looking at you with cameras flashing. Think about that very first moment. See that's the story you should start talking to the girls about is, 'What do you fee like?' So it's a lot easier to do that exact thing in a smaller show and then another show and another show and then by the time you get to Prada, you got it.

Craig: So you might not necessarily try and book her for all the big shows?

Faith: Exactly. The first season is important but the second season is more important. Because the first season, lets say you got all the shows. You've got to keep them the second time. It's easy to get the first time. Now you have to do the editorial. Now you have to be out there the whole time. Because your only new once. (pause)

You are only a new girl once.

...you have to really know how to pace it. You have to know what you'll be able to sustain and not sustain.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EDITORIAL IN A MODELS CAREER

Craig: How important is editorial?

Faith: Very important.

Craig: More important than campaigns?

Faith: It's all about VOGUE. If you are a VOGUE girl you are everywhere. Go into VOGUE magazine. You want to learn something, go in Vogue look at all the girls that are in the well. Go in Anna J, any one of them, Catherine, those are the girls that are doing all the campaigns. Those are girls that are in all the shows.

WHY GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE IMPORTANT

Faith: ...I think that in our world...when a girl starts, if you have one of the three or 4 really important photographers behind you, that's the girls that are making it. So if you have Steven Meisel, you have Mario Testino, you have a Craig McDean, you have a David Sims... you have one of those guys behind you, you're in.

Craig: So that's the goal then?

Faith: That's the goal.

Craig: Is that how you view your goal, moreso the photographer?

Faith: It is. You could walk in 1 show. I could get you to walk in Prada, you can walk in Gucci, you can walk in 1 show. But you didn't do good in that show. Or you know. You had the exclusive for the good show. I've seen girls have an exclusive to Prada and you never see them again. They weren't so great in the show. But at least if you are in a picture, it's out there. and it's out there for at least a couple of months and people keep seeing it. It's different. It's on the shelf its always there...with magazines while they're sitting out there, people are able to take them home and they keep looking and looking and looking at them....

Craig: The photographers are the key then?

Faith: The photographers and the magazines have all the power. Designers are important, don't get me wrong. They are very important. But I think it goes first with if you can get to the photographer. There are some girls that are really photographers girls.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A MODEL LIKING CLOTHES AND FASHION AS A NECESSITY TO SUCCEED

Craig: Does a girl with a genuine appreciation for fashion and clothing fare better in this industry?

Faith: You don't have to care about clothes...I don't think you have to love clothes. I don't think you have to dislike clothes. I just think you have to know how to wear clothes and know what feels good and right on you.

Craig: But like a girl who can get in touch with the artistic aesthetic of a Yohji Yamamoto because she's interested in style?

Faith: I don't think that matters.

Craig: It doesn't matter?

Faith: Not at all. I don't think it matters at all. I think that girl understands better what, and appreciate more what she's wearing but I don't think that that makes her a better model or makes her any better at what she does because she understands the dress

ON TWO TYPES OF FAME FOR A MODEL

Craig: How important is press as opposed to campaigns, editorials in magazines, and runways to a models career?

Faith: It depends upon the model. So there's a "high fashion model" lets call her that's doing all the campaigns and doing Vogue and doing all the shows. It doesn't matter. Because for her, her bible is the editorial, the Vogues of the world, and doing runway.

Then there's a whole other group of girls that, they are famous because of the press. They probably were not really famous models. But they became famous because they dated somebody that was famous, they were in the right place at the right time, they dated a basketball player, there was something about them that made them famous.

...There's 2 different kinds of famous. There's fashion famous which is what every model, I hate to say it , aspires to. They aspire to being in the well of American Vogue, they aspire to being photographed by Craig McDean, and David Sims, Steven Meisel, photographers Bruce Weber, like that.

And then there are girls that you know that their dream was to be in Sports Illustrated or to be in Victoria's Secret. Its a very different kind of famous and its a different kind of fashion. So its completely different. So there's two types of fame.

ON THE INTERNET AND PRINT

Craig: ...how important is the internet going to be to a models career as opposed to print publications?

Faith: I think we've all been struggling through it for the last 7 or 8 years. I don't see the print magazine or the newspaper or even the written book going away. As hard as I try to read and kindle it was the same as turning the pages. I think the internet becomes important because every day you can change it.

I do believe that the print magazine never goes away. I don't think VOGUE ever goes. I think that they are going to do business a bit differently.

AND FINALLY: THE BIGGEST NAMES NEXT HAS DEVELOPED FROM SCRATCH

Craig: The biggest names you've developed from scratch?

Faith: Milla Jovovich, Molly Sims, Joy Bryant, Diane Kruger (the actress), Angie Everhart, Anja Rubick, Anna Jagodzinka, Catherine McNeil, and Jessica Miller.

Known for Opening AND Closing the F/W 2010 Prada show, Samantha has yet to complete a full season of fashion shows. Samantha keeps her personal style equally high end with her Prada Bag and Alexander Wang skirt.

Congratulations to Arizona Muse from Next Models for opening and closing last nights Prada show. As you can see, she looks great off the runway too.

Arizona Muse street style: after the SS17 Balenciaga show

Danish model Josephine Skriver (Marilyn, NY) closed the FW11 Prada show, one of the most coveted slots for any model to walk. So not only do I think you'll be seeing a lot more of Josephine around, but you'll also be seeing a lot of hats floating around the coming fashion month.

You can also look for new updates from the coming Copenhagen and Stockholm Fashion Weeks.

Catherine made a return appearance to the runway this season walking 5 shows from Prada and Blumarine in Milan to Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Stella McCartney at Paris.

If I'm not mistaken, she's wearing the Christopher Kane mushroom cloud top.

Johanne Friis may be wearing cut off jeans and a top from Urban Outfitters, but something tells me this second year high school student (there are only 3 years of High School in Norway) might be wearing Louis Vuitton or Prada soon. She takes acting classes back in Norway which improves the breadth of emotions she can portray for the camera and let me tell you, she was amazing to shoot. You can see her recent test shots at the FORD Models blog.

This is Rachel Clark of Supreme Models. Her boots are from Prada...digging the details on the vamp. Be sure to click the picture to enlarge the details on her dress and see some details of the Manhattan background.

London: Dorothea (ELITE London) gets whisked away to her next show in style via a Ferrari. Kiss and a Hug....

Milan: Dorothea (WOMEN Milan)

Me to Dorothea, "Hey, where's your Ferrari?"

Dorothea smiles and replies, "I left it in London." Hahaha, proof she's just as cool to hang with as she's been on Milan's runways (Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Moschino, and Marni among others).

A living legend since Steven Meisel launched her career back in 2005 by photographing her for the Prada and Dolce and Gabbana campaigns.

p.s. I'll be in London next week to take care of some "biz". So many friends to catch up with: Vanessa J, Alex E, Dan, Kate F, ALR...can't wait. Then off to Paris for the Couture shows (Thomas, Ali, Louise, Katrin...look out!) . So watch out for some new and exciting pics to come :)

Left: Egle Tvirbutaite--walked Zac Posen, Proenza Schouler, Luella, House of Holland, Marios Schwab, and Roberto Cavalli so far this season....to name a few

Right: Stephanie Carta--was a dominant force at the Paris Spring/Summer '09 shows with appearances in Dries Van Noten, Givenchy, and Balenciaga.

Anna Kuchkina--known for the way she blasted her way into the modeling world back in Winter of 2006 with two exclusive debuts: Prada and Miu Miu

The Costume National show looked and felt more like a rock concert than your typical fashion show. It was held in the middle of Milan's tourist hot spot, the Duomo. Bystanders were able to get a glimpse of what goes on inside a fashion show in much the same way a crowd enjoys a rock concert from a distance.

Again, Arizona opened and closed both Prada and Miu Miu, opened Chloé, and closed YSL. A star is born.

Here she is "marching to the beat of her own drummer" style wise...I don't think I saw any other model wearing boots like hers, or anyone else for that matter.

To learn more about Tali (beyond that her mom Annie was with the Eurythmics) -- who walked Prada and Miu Miu -- click HERE for her interview she did with Vogue Italia

Standard Street Style image: note the white over white

exuding personality!

ballet flats -- Chanel
top -- James Perse
skirt -- Prada
bag -- Fendi

Besides closing 3 shows at New York Fashion Week and walking the likes of Prada, Lanvin, and Chanel, Anastasia's also made a presence in print with recent editorials in Vogue Russia and Another Magazine (shot by Josh Olins).

With her peppy and friendly presence every time I've met her, she deserves every bit of success the industry delivers her way.

Follow Kate King on Twitter @katekingg

When I started this blog back in 2007, there was no such thing as the fashion world using twitter, using instagram, using Tumblr.

That's all changed for me and it's all changed for the modeling world too. Previous to the internet, models received their booking value through Runway, Campaigns, and Editorials. Now, models get their booking value through Social Media, which combines their street style presence via Social Media with their own social media channels like twitter, instagram, and Tumblr.

Even Supermodel Karolina Kurkova recently exhorted models, "It is no longer enough to just look beautiful and be in great shape. You need to be interesting." The fact of the matter is, as bloggers can now create their own booking value via developing online presence, so models can create their own booking value too. This translates into more money.

Trey Laird, Creative Director for Laird & Partners, the advertising agency which represents Juicy Couture (cha-ching, Steven Meisel shoots for them for a reason) confirms Kurkova's exhortation in financial terms “It’s not just enough to cast such-and-such a girl that opened Prada or Vuitton or whatever,” . “It’s a huge help if a girl already has a platform and followers, and Kate Upton is a great example of that.”

Follow Kate King on twitter at @katekingg

From the runways of Prada and Miu Miu to the pages of W and Paolo Roversi's lens to Terry Richardson, Anais seems destined to build a career as a colorful as her personal style.

coat -- from MILK store in L.A.
shoes -- Tashkent
cardigan -- Helmut Lang

The one thing I like about the photography in the above photo is that I had her look away from the camera. What do you think? Do you like street fashion pictures better when someone looks right into the lens, or away from it, which could lend itself to more creative artistry?

photographer Daniel Perry
glasses -- part of a Clark Kent costume
pants -- Edelweiss Ski Pants
vintage tuxedo blazer -- John Galliano
shoes -- Prada

OMG, Audra Callo! Looking amazing as usual, "I have to get a pic, can I get a pic?"

"Wait, wait! Where are you going so soon, we're not done yet!"

"Yes! That's more like it! Love it!"

"Okay, take a rest on the ground"

"Ahh! Airborn Audra!"

The Audra Callo Aesthetic in Action! Can you feel it?

shoes -- 1OAK
dress -- 3.1 Phillip Lim
belt-- Mayle
bag-- Prada, gift from her fashion savvy boyfriend.

And in case you haven't noticed, there's a new section on the blog every week. It's called "the best dressed model of the moment" and every week there will be a different girl there!