In short
- The catalogue has one agency in Apeldoorn: 4modElz Agency, with a commercial board.
- It also organises miss and mister pageants, and registration goes through its app.
- The site has neither a street address nor a KVK number.
4modElz Agency
Apeldoorn is a city in the province of Gelderland, in the eastern part of the Netherlands. In our catalogue it is the only Gelderland agency among the country's 100 records. The catalogue lists every business that represents models; we do not vouch for them, and each profile shows what we found, good and bad.
On its site 4modElz Agency says that passion, professionalism and personal attention come first. Those are general words, so it is worth looking at what the agency does in practice. The catalogue gives it one board, commercial. Alongside representing models it organises miss and mister pageants. You register through the agency's own app.
An agency and pageants under one roof
A pageant and a modelling job are different things. In a pageant the entrant competes for a title and may have to pay to take part or find sponsors. In modelling the client pays and the agency takes a share of the fee. When both happen in the same business, find out before you register which of the two you are being invited to and who pays for what.
The catalogue has no press reports, reviews or prices for this agency: we found nothing dated that we could quote. That makes this guide thinner on facts than the others, and that is itself the most important thing for a reader to know.
What the site lacks
The agency's site names only the town. We found no street address and no Chamber of Commerce number on it. Under Dutch rules the KVK number must appear on a business's website, letters, quotations and invoices, so asking for it is entirely normal. Once you have the number, you can look up the company name and address in the register.
An app in place of a form deserves attention too. Before uploading photos and personal data, read who processes them and how to delete the account. If you are registering a minor, create the account yourself and communicate in your own name.
Other markets
- Enschede has MY Models, an agency in the east of the Netherlands with six boards.
- Utrecht has three catalogue agencies in the middle of the country.
- Amsterdam has 50 agencies of 100 and is the main market.
How to get started
- Ask whether you are being invited into the model file or into a pageant, and whether one depends on the other.
- Find out all costs in advance: registration, pageant entry, photos, outfits.
- Ask for the company name, address and KVK number and check them in the register.
- If modelling work is offered, ask for a contract stating the commission and the payment term.
- How agencies are organised in the country is described in the guide Modeling agencies in the Netherlands.