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US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.1 · Pièce · 2011 June 20
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Conducted in 2011, the interview covers Adams's entry in modeling, her early career working as a professional model while still in high school, modeling throughout Europe and Scandinavia, meeting Eileen and Jerry Ford and becoming a Ford model, her experiences working as a model in the late 1960s and 1970s, and her transition into acting. Throughout the interview, Adams reflects on her experiences working closely with Eileen Ford , and expresses gratitude for the lessons Ford instilled in Adams. Adams mentions working with Ford senior Vice President, Sue Charney, and booking agent, Rusty Donovan Zeddis, as well as shooting with photographers, Helmut Newton, and Neal Barr. Halfway through the interview, Adams is joined by her friend, Carl Richards, who joins in Adams's interview before being interviewed separately by Sicular. Carl Richards spontaneously joins this interview part way in.

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Beverly Johnson Interview, 2010 July 22
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.34 · Pièce · 2010 July 22
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Patty Sinclair, director of archives at the Ford Model Agency, and Professor Karen Trivette of the Fashion Institute of Technology, join together to interview model Beverly Johnson. Beverly shares her life growing up and how she was introduced to modeling. She discusses the feeling of seeing her face on a cover, and provides insight into the modeling life she experienced.

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Antonia Steffens interview, 2011 June 21
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.77 · Pièce · 2011 June 21
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In this interview Steffens discusses her role as a fashion editor and foreign correspondent for the German fashion publication, Vogue Germany. Steffens begins the interview by discussing her childhood in Germany and her early interest in fashion. For the majority of the interview, Steffens reflects on her role as a journalist and editor for a major fashion publication. Steffens outlines the varying highlights of her career, as well as the many challenges and obstacles she has faced on both a personal and professional level. Active in her field since 1996, Steffens's interview offers insight into the thoughts, opinions, and working experiences of an early 21st-century fashion editor.

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Susan Brainard interview, 2010 May 18
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.17 · Pièce · 2010 May 18
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In this interview Brainard reflects on her career as a model working first in the United States, and then Europe during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Brainard begins the interview by discussing how she was discovered during her junior year of university, and how this led to occasional commercial work modeling sportswear. Brainard discusses how after college, she first worked as a photographer’s assistant for the photographer John Cochran before beginning her career as a professional model with the Ford Model agency. Brainard reflects on the year and a half she spent modeling in New York, commenting on working conditions for models at that time, and mentioning some of her favorite campaigns for Rheingold beer and the clothing company, Peck and Peck. Brainard then goes on to discuss moving to Europe, and the rest of the interview mostly focuses on her experiences modeling in Europe. Throughout the interview, Brainard provides commentary on the differences between working as a model in New York versus working as a model in Europe during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Present throughout the interview, but not shown on screen, is Brainard’s longtime friend and fellow Ford model, Linda Morand.

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Jan Gonet interview, 2011 June 21
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.48 · Pièce · 2011 June 21
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Gonet reflects on his career as an agent working for top modeling agencies in New York during the late 1970s and 1980s. In the second half of the interview, Gonet shares his experiences as the owner and president of his former male modeling agency, Nytro Models. Gonet begins the interview by covering his arrival in New York in 1978 subsequently discussing breaking into the industry with his first job as an agent for Wilhelmina Models. Gonet reflects on his experiences working under the supervision of agency founder, Wilhelmina Cooper, recounting learning experiences which helped him to become a better agent. Gonet moves on to discuss moving to Elite Model Management, working with agency founder John Casablancas, and managing the agency's male model division. Gonet moves on to discuss opening his own male modeling agency, and for the remainder of the interview, Gonet reflects on changes and developments he has experienced working within the industry for over 20 years.

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US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.49 · Pièce · 2011 June 20
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The interview covers O’Connell’s career as a professional model working internationally during the 1980s and early 1990s. O’Connell offers insight into the differing agency standards and working conditions she experienced as a model in countries such as Japan, Paris, Italy, Brazil, the United States, and Australia. At the end of the interview, O’Connell offers her perspective on the dangers and pitfalls that can plague many working models and offers her opinion on how booking agents can offer their clients more support and security.

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Anne Anka interview, 2011 June 24
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.3 · Pièce · 2011 June 24
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In this interview, Anka reflects on her career as a professional model, working first in Paris and then the Unites States during the 1960s and early 1970s. Anka begins by discussing her heritage and family background, and her childhood in Egypt. Anka explains how she began modeling when she was 17 years old and recounts beginning her career as a model working in Paris with many notable 20th century fashion photographers. Anka discusses meeting Eileen Ford in Paris and how Ford took Anka under her wing once she moved to New York in 1959. Anka reflects on her experiences living with the Ford family and working as a Ford model, mentioning key bookers and agents who worked with her in New York. Anka discusses meeting, dating, and marrying singer Paul Anka, retiring in the early 1970s, and raising 5 daughters. Guided by Sicular, Anka reviews her portfolio and shares stories surrounding a few of her favorite photographs and photographers. Sicular makes a point of focusing on Anka’s composite card (13:50), explaining how in a pre-digital industry the card functioned as model’s primary means of promotion. At the end of the interview, Anka speaks on the phone with her former booker, Rusty Donovan Zeddis.

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Susan Berr interview, 2011 June 21
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.12 · Pièce · 2011 June 21
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In this interview, Berr discusses her early ambitions of becoming a model, becoming a model at age 15, and working as a professional model in New York and Paris. Berr's career ranges from roughly 1963 through 1975, and in this interview, Berr speaks to the working conditions she faced in a time when models were expected to do most of the work to prepare themselves for a photoshoot. Berr reflects on her high and low moments as a model and talks about the self-motivated determination she believes a model should have to make it in the industry.

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Lorraine Davies interview 2011 June 24
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.25 · Pièce · 2011 June 24
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In this interview, Davies reflects on her career working as a professional model from 1946 to 1967. Topics covered include Davies’s life and background prior to modeling, her experiences working as model in New York in the late 1940s prior to the establishment of a standardized and regulated modeling industry, working with photographer Howell Conant, signing with Ford Models, and working with founder Eileen Ford. Davies interview gives testimony to what it was like to be working during this period. Prior to standardization within the modeling industry models were expected to set their own wages and collect their own fees. Additionally, models would only be paid after agencies had been paid by their clients; a process which could often take months to years before a model could collect their earnings.

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Bruce Bauer interview 2011 June 21
US NNFIT SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.5.9 · Pièce · 2011 June 21
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In this interview, Bauer discusses his career as a male model, working first in Europe and then the United States from roughly 1968 through the early 1990s. Bauer discusses his professional and personal relationships with modeling industry insiders Jerry Ford, Joey Hunter, Nina Blanchard, and actress Barbara Stanwyck.

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