STAR SPOTTING AT T4

We had an amazing time at T4's Stars of 2009 yesterday where Elite took over the Rimmel Catwalk Stage to launch the very first UK casting for Elite Model Look 2010. Our team of scouts braved the rain to check out the queue at Earl's Court and then race their 10 best finds to our backstage area for the fastest of catwalk classes before the girls were thrown into the spotlight to strut their stuff....

After all 10 girls had walked for the judges our winner was the gorgeous 16 year old Lottie O'Donoughue from Bromley, who impressed us so much that we're putting her straight into our EML final next summer. With 7 whole months to prepare we can't wait to see what she can do...

The stunning Rochelle Wiseman of girl group the Saturdays made time before her apperance on the main stage to add a sprinkling of celebrity sparkle to the judging panel... here she is with our EML UK 09 winner Nyasha Matonhodze, who's looking every inch the supermodel herself!

With our presenters - Hollyoaks' Matt & Darren, plus Paloma Faith, Ke$ha, Example and Rochelle's bandmate Frankie joining us backstage, it was one crowded green room.... EML 09 world finalist Emily Smith made sure she got the shots though - here she is meeting Edith Bowman, who was also presenting on our stage

THE NEW BRIT PACK

EML UK 2009 - SUCCESS STORIES

We can hardly believe we're already starting castings for EML UK 2010! With our scouts hitting west London's T4 Stars event over the weekend, it's a good time to look back at the little gems we unearthed during the 2009 contest. As well as our world finalists Nyasha, Beth and Emily, we're now representing four other great girls who wowed us at the UK Final back in August... say hello to Elite's new Brit Pack!

HANNAH HARDY, 19 - SCOUTED IN TOPSHOP

RACHEL MARSTON, 16 - SCOUTED AT THE TRAFFORD CENTRE

SAMARA, 17 - SCOUTED AT EML CASTING IN LONDON

HELEN, 16 - SCOUTED AT A BUS STOP IN ESSEX

PLASTIQUE FANTASTIQUE!

Georgie Wass for Plastique shot by Simon Emmett

What a month it’s been for amazing editorials! One of our favourites, Georgie Wass shows us how it’s done in the current issue of Plastique magazine. Smouldering makeup, huge hair and an array of fierce poses help transform our fresh faced girl from Australia into one hell of a Rock Star. We cant wait for Georgie to come back to London and with new material like this, who knows what direction her career is going to take!

BARBORA'S NEW LOOK

Hot off the Burberry catwalk, Barbora Dvorakova continues to do us proud in this striking shoot for Amica Magazine shot by Mark Pillai.

It’s hard to believe this is the same girl we saw in Teen Vogue only last month and if this is a taste of what’s to come we cant wait to see more!

T4 STARS OF 2009

Excitement is building around the Elite agency as we get ready to join forces with T4’s Stars of 2009 at London’s Earls Court this Sunday. Our expert scouts will be stationed throughout the venue, on the lookout for the faces of the future. Our ten favourite finds of the day will get the amazing opportunity to strut their stuff down the Rimmel Catwalk. The winner of the final ‘walk off’ gets a ticket straight to the UK semi-final of the world famous Elite Model Look Competition 2010 where Cindy Crawford and Gisele Bundchen took their first steps into the modelling world.

All this on top of performances by the likes of JLS, Alexandra Burke, Tinchy Stryder and The Saturdays?! If you haven’t got tickets what were you thinking!?
As well as the usual Elite London team, we shall be joined by our stars of EML 2009;  Emily Smith, Beth Leader and Nyasha Matonhodze who will be sharing their tips and experiences with the next generation of Elite Model Look hopefuls.

Elite Model Look world finalist Emily Smith

Hopefully see you there... we will be the fabulous ones in elite t-shirts!

GORGEOUS GABRIELA

Gabriela Iliescu for net-a-porter.com shot by Sarah Griggs

Client favourite Gabriela Iliescu shows us how to update our Winter wardrobe in this fashion forward shoot for net-a-porter.com.

Sadly it will take a little more than a gorgeous jacket to get us looking as hot as Gabriela, but with some fantastic styling tips from net-a-porter we can certainly try!

KATE SOMERS IN US ELLE

Shot by Horst Diekgerdes for US Elle Dec 09

Another month, another fabulous editorial for our star redhead Kate Somers who is gracing the pages of US Elle this month. In a brilliant twist on a winter fashion story, Kate makes walking in heels, IN SAND look easy. Never has knitwear on the beach looked so good!

MICHAELA FOR ARMANI EXCHANGE

Michaela Hlavackova is back with a bang this season, with the Armani Exchange campaign first out of the blocks. We've been loving Tom Munro's work with Constance over the last few months (Moschino, Vogue Nippon) and aslo with Elisa Sednaoui on Love Moschino, and his sleek and sexy story is the perfect vehicle for Ms H. Great behind the scenes footage too...

TOP SECRET

The Victoria's Secret Show is always a major event, and with this season's new Angels on show, plus eye-popping acrobats, a choir, another staggering Heidi Klum post-baby appearance and the usual elaborate set (polka-dotted dog balloon, anyone?) the extravaganza was as unmissable as ever. We were thrilled to see Dorothea Barth Jorgensen making her debut at the show alongside VS regular Sessilee Lopez...

Dorothea, looking adorable 

Sessilee strikes a pose

WELCOME TO LONDON GIRLS!

An absolute feast of girls pitched up in town this week! New with the main board is the gorgeous Zuzana Lettrichova, already snapped up by Net-a-Porter since arriving in London and optioned up all the way to Christmas...

New with Elite London, 16 year old Ornella Periera is making her first trip to the UK, and also on new faces and batting for the Brit pack is lovely Lizzy Burden, both shooting up a storm since they arrived in town last week!

Lizzy B

New face Ornella

Lovely to have you, ladies!

ANASTASIJA IN VOGUE!

Not content with her recent Fashion Week success, Latvian beauty Anastasija Kondratjeva cements her status as one of fashions most recent stars by not one, but two Vogue editorials.

In the picture: Anastasija Kondatjeva, Ylonka and Helena Schroder.

Anastasija is on ‘Red Alert’ in the British Vogue’s December Issue bringing a touch of glamour to the grey English coastline. Shot by Emma Summerton and styled by the fabulous Charlotte Stockdale.

We almost didn’t recognise our girl in this fierce Russian Vogue cover story shot by Matt Irwin. With show stopping make up and some slightly unusual props this has become an instant hit around the Elite London office.

As for Miss Kondratjeva's future projects...watch this space!

ELISA'S ELLE EXTRA

The gorgeous Elisa Sednaoui stars on this month's Elle Extra cover from Italy, with a profile on the budding actress featured inside. With her beautiful new pics from Surface magazine (Dan Martensen) also out now and her latest film Bus Palladium (directed by Christopher Thompson) premiering in the spring, she's ready for a busy few months...

MELODIE for VOGUE ITALIA

The amazing Melo is creating a major stir right now - off the back of a sizzling SS10 show season she is piling up the key autumn editorials. We've only just stopped raving about her Numero (Greg Kadel), following on from appearances in French Vogue, Pop and Wonderland, and now here's a beautifully arresting profile shot for Vogue Italia, photographed by the brilliant Emma Summerton...

MEET THE ELITE!!!!

L-R - Julia Saner (SUI), Emily Smith (UK), Simona Andrejic (SER)

Industry bible www.models.com has been quick off the mark to celebrate the incredible new girls that have emerged from the 2009 Eilte Model Look contest. Following last month's world final in China, we're already working with many of the fab girls we met through this year's event, and as always there will be many more following in the footsetps of Cindy, Gisele, Linda, who are all alumni of our contest.

Read the models.com verdict HERE

L-R - Manon Pieto (FR), Barbie (CHN), Caterina Ravaglia (ITA)

EGLE for VOGUE AUSTRALIA

Will Davidson's atmospheric, textured shots for November's Vogue Australia capture an elegant and poised Egle. Entitled "From Dusk 'til Dawn," the showcase of the season's architectural shapes is as graceful and alluring as it is dark and moody - we love it!

Photographed by Will Davidson

Styled by Naomi Smith

BEHIND THE SCENES IN SANYA

Elite Model Look's World Final was held last month in tropical Sanya, southern China. Here's a taster of the 2 week model 'boot camp' that lead up to the gala finale...

SIGRID STRIKES AGAIN

It's been another busy couple of months for the season's most in-demand girl, Sigrid Agren. Proving that the industry's love affair with ultra-glamorous and classically beautiful girls is far from over, October's NUMERO saw her channel noirish elegance in Sebastien Kim's 'Shadows' story, and now she is upping her campaign tally for the season in the gorgeous new shots for YSL Beauty's Holiday 2009...

Sigrid for Numero (Oct '09) by Sebastien Kim

Maria Sharapova Look-A-Like Contest at T-Mobile Store LA 10/31

In celebration of the stylish Equinox(TM) phone, tennis star Maria Sharapova will make an appearance at the grand opening of a new T-Mobile store in Los Angeles on October 31, 2009.

At the event, Sony Ericsson will hold a Maria Sharapova look-a-like contest. Fashionistas who think they can match Maria's style will get the chance to meet Maria and compete to win the title of Maria's best look-a-like.

Swing by to meet Maria in person, you could be selected by Maria, herself, as a winner in the Maria Look-a-like contest, enjoy other prize opportunities and see what else Sony Ericsson and T-Mobile are serving up.

Whether you look like Maria or feel like dressing up like her for Halloween, come to the Grand Opening event to enter the Maria Sharapova Look-a-like contest. See if Maria herself picks you as the winner!

ELITE LONDON JOINS FORCES WITH T4's STARS OF 2009!

ELITE LONDON are proud to announce that we will be joining forces with T4 to start our hunt for the NEXT BRITISH SUPERMODEL! Our expert scouts will be hunting down the faces of the future at T4's Stars of 2009 show on 29th November, and could pick YOU out of the crowd to strut your stuff in a glamorous live catwalk show on the day.


The girl that our jury experts from Elite and Rimmel select as the ‘walk-off’ winner will be catapulted to the semi-finals of the renowned Elite Model Look contest, and have a shot at winning the competition that launched the careers of Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista.


T4’s Stars of 2009 will be presented by Steve Jones, Miquita Oliver and Rick Edwards, and takes place on Sunday 29th November at Earls Court, London. Top music acts that have been announced so far including JLS, Sugababes,Alexandra Burke, Calvin Harris, La Roux, Diversity, Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk, with more acts to be announced in the coming weeks.


Tickets for the event are on sale now and selling fast so potential models are advised to get in now before they miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime. Visit T4's site HERE for more information and ticket details.