This year 350,000 entrants have been whittled down to the 67 girls from 54 countries who are milling about the hotel in matching Elite-branded white vests and shorts that make them look like members of a school sports club. The Next Top Model franchise may create good TV, but Elite Model Look – now in its 26th year – creates supermodels. It is a tropical 33 degrees and we are surrounded by teenage girls – all potential supermodels, all plucked from the high streets and high schools of the world and all flown to Sanya to compete in the Elite Model Look, which is certainly the largest, arguably the most thorough and possibly the most extravagant model competition in the world. It’s mid-October when I meet Emily in the foyer of a five-star beachside hotel in Sanya, a holiday resort on Hainan Island off the southern coast of China. Not that this should now concern the softly spoken 5ft 10in schoolgirl from Basingstoke because, having entered the Elite Model Look (EML) contest instead, she really is Britain’s next top model.
But, by her own admission, lacking any of the brash, attention-seeking qualities required and being three years underage, she would never have made the cut at this year’s auditions.
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Elohor Aisien Founder of Beth Model Management Africa said she is looking for the perfect super model that can represent Nigeria in the modeling industry, like Mayowa and Victor did last year.ĭue to the rain and the legendary Island traffic, Bukky Karibi-Whyte of Bobby Taylor, Mayowa Nicholas and Victor Ndigwe Elite Model Look Winners 2014 joined the judges table during the auditions.Nikola from Czech Republic works her model magic for a photographerĮmily Smith, like so many 15-year-olds, is a huge fan of the reality TV show Britain’s Next Top Model. Kike Togbe Editor In Chief MADC said she was excited to see what Nigeria has to offer from the pool of models at the moment and also see the new face of modeling. Tokyo James British Nigerian Menswear Brand &Creative Director said he was looking for great faces to export to the rest of the world, faces that can book some of the world’s biggest campaigns. Meeting the judges before it started, I asked about their mindsets on choosing models during the auditions. After that they were expected to walk, show their Polaroid pictures and hopefully hear their numbers to qualify them to the next round. The people who were chosen were marked and they wrote their names and got their numbers. This first stage of the audition filtered the number of over a thousand to about 400, if not more. Certainly not child’s play.įirst of all they had to go through a stage I’d like to call ‘ Know-Your-Height’, the height requirements for the ladies was 5’8 and 5’11 for the boys and most people didn’t meet up to it.
It is Elite Model Look!! People came in from Ghana, Cameroon, London and places you’ve probably not heard of and it was lovely to have them at the every busy Eko Hotel And Suites.
Everybody was nervous and they had a very good reason to be. The buzz was amazing, the amount of models with dreams just made it a pleasant sight to watch, knowing that two people there would have their lives changed a s a result of this day.
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I came a bit early to witness the preparations as I’m not big on the whole African time, plus it almost rained all day and that added to the auditions not kicking off in no time. The auditions happened on the 15th of August, 2015 and yours truly was there to cover the auditions. The Elite Model Look competition is probably the most prestigious modelling competition in Africa.
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