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FMD - The Fashion Model Directory
Founded: 1996 | Activity: professional online database, fashion industry, media information source 20M impressions/month | 1.6M visitors/month The world's largest database of professional fashion models (11000+) , fashion designers/brands (1500+) and modeling agencies (1500+) is very popular within the fashion industry and one of the most reliable and accurate information source for worldwide media. The portal has a continually growing fashion community with discussion boards as well as many useful features, including a new rising fashion designers database and further upcoming professional databases which are provided to the public free of charge as well as the world's largest fashion images archive (250k >). FMD is the centre of our fashion activities and under continuous development. |
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IFDAQ - International Fashion Directory Automated Quotation System
Est. Launch: 2Q 2010 | Activity: professional popularity/ad-val quotation system, fashion industry 7,000+ professional fashion models (active on FMD) The IFDAQ (acronym of International Fashion Directory Automated Quotation) is the first automated quotation system for the fashion industry, calculated from decisive factors which guarantee an accurate and realistic rating of a fashion model, modeling agency, fashion designer and fashion brand. The index value of an entry, e.g. a fashion model, is calculated on the basis of various factors but mainly weighted by the popularity on FMD, the amount of work a models has done, the search volume index on Google and Yahoo, but also by the Forbes list of top-earning models, as well as a jury which consists of 20 fashion and industry experts. |
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MVA - Most Valuable Agency Program
Founded: 2006 | Activity: quality surveillance, testing program for modeling agencies 1,500+ professional modeling agencies | current status: verifying agencies | Est. Official Launch: 3Q 2010 MVA aims to be the most reliable testing program and quality surveillance for professional modeling agencies in the world. Upcoming and professional fashion models demand for credible agencies without having to fear bad surprises such as getting ripped off and mislead to other services. In co-operation with the consumer protection of several countries around the world, MVA sorts out and renders public all fraudulent and dubious agencies before they can do any harm. |
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MBI - the models blog...
Founded: 2005 | Activity: modeling news and gossip 24,000+ subscribers | 500,000 Impressions/month | 200,000 Visitors/month FMD's current news portal is specialized in daily news and gossip about fashion models but not only. MBI was the first publisher of many exclusive stories which have found their way to renowned newspapers and magazines such as the Sun and the NY magazine. |
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FNS - Fashionne.ws
Est. Launch: 2Q 2010 | Activity: fashion industry news, magazine and online portal est. 30,000+ subscribers on start-up This fashion newspaper offers daily articles about fashion, models, fashion events, celebrity parties, modeling agencies and lifestyles along with many interactive FMD-features. Launching in 1Q 2010, Fashionne.ws is going to be the news portal for FMD's daily news and is heading towards a monthly printed edition. |