<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645</id><updated>2009-04-06T00:27:32.334-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Promotional models, Event Staffing, Promotional Agency</title><subtitle type='html'>Ever felt, why there was a relative absence of black fashion models in the recent fashion week? No doubt, it’s true that the cut throat competition brews in between the model agencies for searching for the most glamorous fashion models, with the best of poses, head shots and beauty. But with innumerable white models, walking down the ramp, it’s definitely getting difficult for black women to mark their advent, unlike as they did during the late seventies.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645.post-7979473397308044946</id><published>2008-11-06T21:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T21:20:12.147-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bring home the cutting edge advantage for your products and business by promo models</title><content type='html'>Hiring &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/"&gt;promo models&lt;/a&gt; to drive sales momentum is quite a trendy aspect that’s being in use for quite some times. Promo models exactly bring the results as they are hired for making themselves engaged in the activities useful for companies. Promotional models assure varied gains for companies besides the sales momentum, as they establish a direct contact with the end users and build cordial relationships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any business firm hopes to reach out to masses with its products and services in various effective ways, and a promotional model certainly features among those available ways. Conveying the message of a firm and moreover, about the products to be sold is a task that requires skills of varied degree. Promo models either possess the skills required or imparted with to hone it further.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A live interaction with consumer calls for the need to have a &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/home.php"&gt;promotional model&lt;/a&gt; who can easily convey the desired message in an equally desired way. Promo model puts across the messages they are meant for, as marketing is now a need of the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Promo models with the right outlook and attitude are hired by most of the firms everywhere, as the goodwill goes with the products, endorsed by the promo models. Usually, the fresher with a college degree or other individual with guts and intention to bring the effect required are taken by firms to do the job by further honing their skills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rigorous training gets scheduled for promotional models to learn the nitty-gritty of promotion and advertising. Besides, a full knowledge is imparted about the firm and their reputation. Special care is given while teaching the product to be advertised, and efforts are made to turn promo models into a person with information on their finger tips. Girls are also demanded heavily for specific items and activities, as female promo models have their own unique significance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Australia relishes its flourishing trade and businesses and also sees the intense utilisation of promo models by its majority of business firms throughout. Australian promo models also savor a profession that promises everything like glamour, fun and money at the same time. Australian promo models are hired to wok in lots of marketing campaigns like, Merchandising, Conferences, exhibitions, Product launches, Corporate events, trade shows etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The foremost purpose of clients hiring promo models is to convey a lucid picture about their business so as to have an improvement in the sales. So it’s must to pick promotional models with look and the right attitude to bring home the real advantage.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4804796474104839645-7979473397308044946?l=promotionalmodels.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/feeds/7979473397308044946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4804796474104839645&amp;postID=7979473397308044946' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/7979473397308044946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/7979473397308044946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/2008/11/bring-home-cutting-edge-advantage-for.html' title='Bring home the cutting edge advantage for your products and business by promo models'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08120075664832471522'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645.post-3420026610017802182</id><published>2008-11-06T21:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T21:17:40.440-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Promotional Staff: Much more than models with pretty faces and pleasant personality</title><content type='html'>The basic job outline of a &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/home.php"&gt;promotional model&lt;/a&gt; is, in fact, quite predictable. As an aspiring model, you may already know about the potential employment opportunities that may greet you or at least you can guess fairly well. However, just to recapitulate, you can expect yourself to be standing at one of the happening exhibitions, sports events, music concerts, seasonal festivities, even retail outlets and temporary shop extension counters for product launch promotions. Indeed, jobs assigned to the promotional staff at times are too simple but boring, like handing over pamphlets and samples at a shopping outlet or an event; The best part of being into promotional modeling and event management is that the job keeps changing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though joining the &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/home.php"&gt;promotional staff&lt;/a&gt; and event staff does require you to be good looking and a charming personality, the demands of the occupation are much more reasonable and practical to meet as compared to the extent desired out of fashion models. Promotional staff may belong to wider age group falling in between 17 to 40 years. Expectedly, work is more for girls and guys younger than 30, but you can still hope to find a job if you thirty plus but well-maintained. Unlike fashion modeling, your communications skills, demeanor and amiability makes a big difference to your efficiency at a promotion or event management job. A good promotional model is a total package and not just gorgeous looks and stunning physique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks are important for the promotional staff and event staff, but far more important are the accompanying personality features like patience, good manners, and friendliness, clarity of thought / speech and smart thinking (better known as presence of common sense) - basically all the features as a person that eventually will make him/ her a likable person for the target customers. The combination of personable manners and attractive appearance works wonders in winning a favourable impression from the customers. A bit of knowledge of the product being promoted also comes across as an added advantage in handling the job better. For example, some idea of computers will add significant value to your efforts while promoting computers for your client.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consumers are enormously fussy and finicky these days and it takes intense hard work and various strategies to get their attention your way. Tastes vary and so do the demands. While one formula may work wonders for one, it might not work as effectively as you would have thought on others. Being the event staff or promotional staff, you carry the heavy expectation of driving sales and bringing enough attention for your client.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4804796474104839645-3420026610017802182?l=promotionalmodels.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/feeds/3420026610017802182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4804796474104839645&amp;postID=3420026610017802182' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/3420026610017802182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/3420026610017802182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/2008/11/promotional-staff-much-more-than-models.html' title='Promotional Staff: Much more than models with pretty faces and pleasant personality'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08120075664832471522'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645.post-5192542805413591137</id><published>2008-11-06T21:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-06T21:14:02.679-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Promotional Agency: furnishing your business the impetus to grow new heights</title><content type='html'>Promotional agency supplies staff for all-purpose of advertising. Quality staff takes any business to the next level and a promotional agency fully recognises the fast-changing needs of a business. Variety of industries gets effectively served with the type of staff they need through these promotional agencies. Whenever a particle business needs specific solutions to drive its sales and other stagnate aspects, it directly heads to a &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/home.php"&gt;promotional agency&lt;/a&gt; for the solution to come out from it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These event staffing agencies possess the ability to influence the help-seeking business firms with the implausible assets of individual skills, exceptional attributes and individual experience. With the help of these traits of their individuals, these agencies endow businesses with a complete staffing solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fast-changing market needs and cut-throat competition between the firms to take the pole position have given rise to these promotional agencies. Basically, a promotional agency is taken in use to bring the desired advertising effect to a business that ensures the overall growth and more revenue generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The longing to realise the clients’ needs form the basis of their set-up and this longing prompts them to lead a business to the new heights of growth. A business can grow with the help of its products, and even advertising emerges as another mode to bring the same effect to a business. A promotional agency is also referred as glamour model agency or model agencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are called model agencies as they offer &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/"&gt;promo models&lt;/a&gt; to let a business be endorsed by utilising their skills and effects. Model agencies offer a solution that strikingly suits the precise needs of a business at the endorsement front. With promo models and their wide-ranging skills and attributes, event staffing agencies have taken over the common conscience of a business everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the basis of its &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/"&gt;fashion models&lt;/a&gt; to carry out the same task of effective advertising, the glamour model agencies are known as fashion model agencies. A search is carried out that involves the database of the client by these fashion model agencies to offer them the solution that fits their needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Promotional agency is searched for a nippy and calculated response to the promotional needs that might fetch good results in the long run. With the help of combined marketing, sales and recruitment experience, promotional agency comes with a solution that works like a wonder for any business seeking its help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The skills and attributes of its staff forever bring a cutting edge solution for their clients and their business. Glamour model agencies place businesses in an incredible position by delivering a range of models with varying attributes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4804796474104839645-5192542805413591137?l=promotionalmodels.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/feeds/5192542805413591137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4804796474104839645&amp;postID=5192542805413591137' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/5192542805413591137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/5192542805413591137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/2008/11/promotional-agency-furnishing-your.html' title='Promotional Agency: furnishing your business the impetus to grow new heights'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08120075664832471522'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645.post-3370617182989210873</id><published>2008-08-22T23:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T23:14:32.312-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Realize the long-cherished marketing ambitions through the apt promotional staff</title><content type='html'>In this ever changing marketing scenario, experiential marketing or field marketing has almost become an integral part of all marketing activities. Promotional agency often hires and engages promotional staff to help boost brand image, steer traffic and sales for the company, seeking their services for using them at special events. It is forever suggested to use promotional staff from an esteemed agency to realize the difference what good quality promo staff could bring in to the overall endorsement of a product. Promotional agency signs up first-rate promotional staff to leave a positive impression on consumers in various marketing events like corporate functions, trade shows, exhibitions, product launches and street-based promotions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/home.php"&gt;Promotional staffing&lt;/a&gt; by such agency ensures genuine connections with customers for lasting impressions. Models, actors, or entertainers form the best promotional staff with their outgoing and flexible lifestyle, going down well with various promotional pursuits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To maximise success and impact, it is always good to have viable and significant promotional staff to campaign. Sometimes there is a need of perfection to present the clear-cut message through such staff to have a better effect. Without having an authentic link between the brand ambassador and the consumer, you can not expect anything better on the promotional front.&lt;br /&gt;A bad promotional staffing might do some irreparable damages to products and overall reputation of the company. Ultimately, even a message might get through wherein the consumers end up guessing that the brand is not good enough for their needs. This sorry situation could be avoided by a better promotional staffing that tends to generate the promotional staff with a sense to carry the message and brand image effectively. Having apt promotional staff that successfully matches up with a brand often produces significant results for the company promoting the brand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Promotional agency insistently strives to engage promo staff with the intent of bringing a positive difference at any such event. The best promo staff is one which comprehends the&lt;br /&gt;significance of every single consumer impression. Such staff does its act right through self assurance, panache for sales and an affinity for the product it endorses. No one can ignore the significance of having promotional staff as it plays a vital part of any promotion.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4804796474104839645-3370617182989210873?l=promotionalmodels.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/feeds/3370617182989210873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4804796474104839645&amp;postID=3370617182989210873' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/3370617182989210873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/3370617182989210873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/2008/08/realize-long-cherished-marketing.html' title='Realize the long-cherished marketing ambitions through the apt promotional staff'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08120075664832471522'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645.post-3284256844632790262</id><published>2008-08-22T23:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T23:11:10.071-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lay hands on the perfect promotional agency for efficient execution of your entire marketing activities</title><content type='html'>Promotional agency carries out the task of promotional staffing with precision and prudence to lay hands on some of the top quality promo models. The success of a promotional agency relies heavily on the staff it recruits to execute various promotional activities for clients. Such agencies involve themselves in finding out a fine array of individuals to guarantee the realization of the preset goals. The staff settles on the plans and policies to be adopted by the agency to create and maintain fulfilling relationships with customers. All these tend to generate profit for a &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/home.php"&gt;promotional agency&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reasonable marketing steps are dished out through promotional agency to those exploring ways to generate goodwill for their products and brands. Pulling off long and short-term marketing triumph is task that needs promo model with look and personality exactly matching the way a product should be working like. Lots of strategic and tactical planning activities are done by promotional agencies of Australia while staffing to acquire better results for the parties involved in the whole course of business activity. They also face the task of new customer acquisition and retention to expand their business through the hired models.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maintaining healthy and prosperous business relationships with existing customers can only see such agencies having any hope of success in the long run. They get their tasks cut out and work accordingly by employing various modes to generate gains for the clients in need and for itself as well. Creating brand awareness reflects the real success of any promotional agency, and it’s their obligation to build a particular brand's presence in the market. The promotional agency often tries to get closer to its goals by letting its staff participate in various events like Road Shows, Mobile Van Activities, Shopping Mall Activities, Retail Merchandising and many more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seizing the interest of the common public and then making them have a feel of the products is what such agency tends to perform to promote the concerned product in the market. The promotional agencies Australia vigorously implement all these activities to achieve brand recall. Their task is made easy by the toiling and charms of the promo staff that is turning out to be a vital part for the marketing settings now companies employ.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4804796474104839645-3284256844632790262?l=promotionalmodels.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/feeds/3284256844632790262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4804796474104839645&amp;postID=3284256844632790262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/3284256844632790262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/3284256844632790262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/2008/08/lay-hands-on-perfect-promotional-agency.html' title='Lay hands on the perfect promotional agency for efficient execution of your entire marketing activities'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08120075664832471522'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645.post-6523204857490349986</id><published>2008-08-22T22:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-22T23:08:49.344-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Enhance potential of your products and carve out a niche through promo models</title><content type='html'>While launching a new product, strengthening a flourishing one or at an event promotion, promo models are often engaged to provide some consummate promotional services. These models enhance brand awareness, perk up product placement and let marketers recognize their target market. Usually promotional models are kept industry savvy to assist amazingly while executing most of the promotion drive. Typically a college student or sometimes any motivated individual with right approach and outlook is made the promotional model to carry out various endorsing activities. Market even demands individuals with traits like being outgoing, exciting, and vigorous for a promotional model.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An attractive guy or girl under the age of 30 makes the cut quite easily for carrying out several promotional activities for marketers. A &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/"&gt;promotional model&lt;/a&gt; works as the professional brand ambassadors for various products and fetches supreme results through the assigned task. These models get apt training to connect customers in a discussion about the brand they work for, and strike amazingly with specific talking points to see the message through. Having such right heads ensures that the brand message is in good hands. These promotional models could easily be seen at tradeshows, outside stores, and on the streets in proper dressing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their close and intense interaction with prospective consumers lends them a chance to make a strong impact. You should never expect this technique to be connecting or having the same effect what a television or print ad usually does, but then there are some wonderful gains from the face-to-face experience, what a promo model creates. Even a superior impression has been realized through this way than the other much-talked about mode. Promotion does most of the business in this intense competition and promo model brings the desired results by doing the promotional marketing and events promotion in a fresh and edgy way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They offer you a prospect to lastingly etch your product into the consumers psyche and help enormously to enhance product penetration. The promotional models Brisbane precisely let the marketers pull off the best possible product positioning in the market place. All such effects are achieved convincingly with promotional models, who easily get mixed with people without nerves with first-rate manners and a lucid speech pattern. Representing a company professionally is not an easy task, but a promotional model does this fairly influentially.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4804796474104839645-6523204857490349986?l=promotionalmodels.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/feeds/6523204857490349986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4804796474104839645&amp;postID=6523204857490349986' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/6523204857490349986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/6523204857490349986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/2008/08/enhance-potential-of-your-products-and.html' title='Enhance potential of your products and carve out a niche through promo models'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08120075664832471522'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804796474104839645.post-2245470394754896926</id><published>2008-07-09T05:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T23:31:34.788-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Whitewashing In Fashion Industry: Where Have the Black Models Gone?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#330033;"&gt;Does race play a pivotal role in deciding the career prospects of this tempting fashion industry? Are the days of black celebrities like Naomi Campbell, Liya Kebede and Donyale Luna, finally over? Sadly, these questions reveal some hard and bitter truths. On one hand, black fashion wear might have appeared as a style statement, but sadly on the other hand, the entire fashion bustle is perhaps undergoing a complete white wash. Long back, Ms Mendoza happened to be the first black woman to be crowned as Ms Columbia in 2002. But no other black woman could repeat history again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier, the &lt;a href="http://dmcpromotions.com.au/home.php"&gt;black fashion models &lt;/a&gt;used to grace the cover of more than hundreds of magazines like Haper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Vogue. Fashion models like Waris Dirie, had even modeled for Express jeans and Chanel. Along with the top model agencies, even the advertising giants like Tommy Hilfiger and Abercrombie &amp;amp; Fitch hired these black models. Several international fashion magazines, fashion model portfolios, commercials and catwalks featured the budding black models that had literally set the bestowed platforms on fire, with their cuts, curves and figures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But nowadays, the so-called universal &lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/"&gt;fashion models agency &lt;/a&gt;poses challenging situations for the black women. The number of black women chosen by the glamorous model agency has dramatically decreased. Now, even the fashion aficionados rejoice upon seeing a black face in the fashion magazine. So is it deliberate discrimination or not? No doubt, around twelve percent of the world population includes black people, but are these statistics enough to confront the selection of the models in any international model agency? Perhaps not!&lt;br /&gt;Earlier when fashion commenced into an industrial platform, it started with the selling of clothes and creating vigor, dash and genre for fashion hunters. But now, it has drooped to the business of selling beauty. Somehow, the international designers feel that black women cannot portray the stereotyped image of beauty. Sadly, they don't realise that their expensive attires are also worn by these black beauties. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dmcpromotions.com.au/"&gt;www.dmcpromotions.com.au&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4804796474104839645-2245470394754896926?l=promotionalmodels.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/2245470394754896926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4804796474104839645/posts/default/2245470394754896926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://promotionalmodels.blogspot.com/2008/07/whitewashing-in-fashion-industry-where.html' title='Whitewashing In Fashion Industry: Where Have the Black Models Gone?'/><author><name>Pradeep Shukla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04684265880293295759</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08120075664832471522'/></author></entry></feed>