In short
- The catalogue has one agency in Swisttal: VIA Model Management, operating since 2012.
- Boards: women, men and new faces.
- The fashion week is in Berlin, and most agencies are in Berlin and Hamburg.
Modeling work in Swisttal
Swisttal is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, near Bonn. Our catalogue lists one agency here, VIA Model Management. It is a partnership of two owners, Laura Badent and Dominik Badent, in business since 2012; its office is in the village of Odendorf.
The agency works as a mother agency: it finds new faces and places them with agencies in other cities and abroad. On its website it says that since 2012 it has built a reputation as a trusted partner in the fashion industry. So an office in a small town does not mean the jobs are here too: models travel to where the clients are.
The agency's boards in the catalogue: women's, men's and new faces.
The nearest markets
- Cologne – 9 catalogue agencies and plenty of advertising and television work.
- Dusseldorf – 10 catalogue agencies and the Düsseldorf Fashion Days order event, held twice a year.
- Frankfurt – 7 catalogue agencies, all with a commercial board.
How to get started
- Take simple digitals in daylight and write down accurate measurements.
- A mother agency looks for potential first, so you do not need professional pictures before you apply.
- Apply through the agency's official website. A genuine agency does not charge for applying or for a casting; being asked to pay for registration, a Sedcard or a compulsory shoot is a sign of a modeling scam.
- Contracts, commission, tax and the rules for minors are covered in the guide Modeling agencies in Germany.