Modelling Success Stories: Lucky Blue Smith

Break into male modelling and a whole new world will open up before your eyes. You’ll get to work with cool people, see the world and possibly even become a star like Lucky Blue Smith. The industry’s latest ‘it boy,’ as far as male modelling success stories go, it doesn’t get better than Lucky.

Lucky’s beginnings

Raised in small town Utah, Lucky Blue Smith grew up to become a six-foot-two-inch Adonis. According to Business of Fashion, Lucky’s older sister Daisy Clementine was scouted before him, when he was just ten years old, by Next Models Los Angeles. They told him to come back in two years.

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LUXE Models Modelling Success Stories: Ashley Graham

The modelling industry is really changing right now. Casting directors are increasingly hiring women of all shapes and sizes to front their campaigns. If you want to become a plus size model just look at Ashley Graham as an example of how to do it right. Here is her modelling success stories.

Going big time

Nebraska-born Ashley Graham was always destined to make history. Ashley’s stratospheric rise started when she was scouted at a local mall at the tender age of 12. Ashley was signed to Ford Models, starting her modelling success stories just one year later and now also works with IMG models.

Ever since, Ashley has done everything from catalogue and commercial work, to television and runway modelling. She has graced the covers of magazines including Style Magazine and Elle Quebec. Raising the profile of plus size models, she has also appeared on the covers of ‘shape issues’ of some of the most iconic publications in fashion like Vogue,Harper’s Bazaar and Glamour.

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