This document summarizes several categories of modeling and their requirements. Fashion models must be tall, thin, and young to model in fashion magazines. Editorial models have the same strict requirements. Catalog models have height requirements between 5'8"-6'1" for women and 5'10"-6'2" for men. Runway models must be very tall and slender to showcase clothing designs. Commercial models have no height or size limits and work in various media. Print models need an attractive face and body for publications. Petite models under 5'4" can find work in areas besides high fashion. Modeling agencies can help models enter categories that suit them.

1. Models
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categories

2. Models
• Many types of modeling you will find in the
modeling industry.
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only fit into one category, while another model may
fit into multiple.
• The following slide show various model categories
and their roles.

4. Fashion Models
• This category is the most exclusive and most
difficult of all categories for a model to get
into, much less succeed in.
• A fashion model MUST be tall, young, and
thin. In addition, there are fashion model
“size requirements”, and hardly any
exceptions made in terms of that.

6. Editorial Fashion Model
• These models are the ones
you find in the editorial spreads
of pages like Elle, Vogue,
Glamour, etc.
• You MUST fit the modeling
requirements for a “Fashion Model.

7. Fashion Catalog Model
• Slightly less restrictive than fashion modeling in
terms of requirements, but catalog modeling still
has rigid standards nonetheless, and is also difficult
to get into.
• Catalog
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the clothing catalogs, posing in a variety of outfits.
• Typically, only female models between 5’8” and
6’1” will find work here. Male models should be
between 5’10” and 6’2”.

9. Runway Model
• Models that walk the catwalk or runway; a “live
model.”
• Runway models are hired to use their bodies as
a mechanism to display the fashion garments
of a specific clothing designer.
• They MUST be tall (5’9” and up for females,
5’11” and up for males), slender, have
measurements that fit the standard clothing
size, and know how to walk the runway.

11. Commercial Model
• Most agency models work
in this category. Commercial
models work MANY different
jobs, including: print
advertisements, catalogs,
campaigns, television shows,
magazines, trade shows, and
much more.
• There are no height or size
requirements to be a
commercial model.

12. Print Models
• Print models are used for many different types
of publications, such as: magazines, print
advertisements, billboards, posters, calendars,
campaigns, booklets, flyers, banners.
• Print models must have an attractive face,
good skin, a nice body, and a pretty smile.
• Print models can find modeling work in one of
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14. Petite Model
• These are models that are on the shorter side-
typically 5’4” and under.
• While they will not be able to find work as a
fashion model, petite models can still find work
in other categories, such as a print, commercial,
glamour, or promotional modeling.
• Petite models can be sought after for their small
hands/feet for print work as well.

16. • There are many more models with
necessary qualities for the above models
need a help to get into industry.
• So many modelling agencies helps the
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