Ugly Models
Ugly Models is a
History
Ugly was started in 1969 by Jill Searle to fill a gap in the modeling market for interesting faces. They placed an advert in a newspaper saying "If you've got an interesting face contact Ugly.", people poured in, and the agency took off after they received thousands of applicants from the outset. They created a niche for themselves in supplying advertisers with faces that are not traditionally beautiful to front its campaigns. In 1997, Marc French had the idea of creating an offshoot fashion agency within the company called Rage. Both Rage and Ugly work from the same office but Rage is about conventionally beautiful and 'girl or boy next door types'. Most of the Rage models are dancers, performers or extras.
A three-part documentary series titled 'Britain's Ugliest Models' aired in 2010 on
See also
References
- ^ Jason Deans (29 January 2001). "Ugly models take to the catwalk in Channel 5 film". The Guardian. London: Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "Marc French Interview: Ugly Modelling Agency Boss". channelhopping.onthebox.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
- ^ "Speakuponline.it".