YouModels is happy to announce the partnership and member of the board position with M.A.M.A, the Managers And Models Association. The largest association of the leading and respectable model managers world-wide representing most of the models within the modeling business.

M.A.M.A worldwide is uniting managers and the models they represent inorder to promote ethical and professional standards with the modeling business. The principal aim of M.A.M.A is to strengthen ethical business competiveness.

Website: http://m-a-m-a.org

Email: Website: mama@m-a-m-a.org

YouModels long term vision of partnering with M.A.M.A is to have our members signed up to M.A.M.A’s regulatory framework. We believe in M.A.M.As vision and values and will assist in models welfare and other projects to enhance the industry. This is in line with the YouModels vision of providing a safe and stable booking platform for the modeling industry.

YouModels is a MAMA board of directors member as an expert socialnetworking advisor.

Please feel free to contact YouModels with any questions related to M.A.M.A.

Website: http://youmodels.com

Email: Website: info@youmodels.com

The Olympic Games, London 2012. Fencing.

The olympic fencing games start today. Get in the mood to watch the swordfighting with these inspired fashion photographs.

TAKE PART !

Do you want to be a part of an exciting new music video, all in aid of charity?

All you have to do it send a picture or video with you holding your hands up in a 'stop gesture' or holding a piece of paper with an anti'-bullying message written on.

Either on your own, with your friends/ family, even with a pet.

Then your pictures/ videos will feature in an anti-bullying music video with The Undertakings in aid of Bullies Out, as a part of The Undertakings, Hands Are Not For Hitting campaign.

Deadline for all videos and pictures is the 9th August.

Videos and pictures submitted first take priority.

Send pictures or videos to theundertakings@6913record ings.com

http://www.bulliesout.com/get-involved/anti-bullying-charity-single/

Here's some great reasons why you should drink the beverage that I love so much... Tea!

Volvic Animal Morph

Now I know what I would look like as a fox thanks to Volvic's new Facebook animal morph competition.

Here's what I look like as a fox and as a squirrel. Haha!

You can morph yourself into an animal and enter the competition to win a pair of designer wellies and sunglasses!

Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/VolvicUK/app_236881639758639

“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity” -Bo Bennett.

The automatic doors shudder open as though they have remained unused for the last century and I am faced with an army of Chinese faces.  They stare vacuously at me as a horse would stare at a unicorn; a blank sense of astonishment mixed with a hint of curiosity can be read on each and every face.  Welcome to the Beijing subway, public transport system for all residents of the 'Jing.

It's rush hour and the train carriage I step into is full of Chinese workers on their way home.  It is not entirely untypical of them to stare like this, however today is especially awkward as I, too, am on my way home from work and as such plastered in make-up.  The 'concept' for today's fashion show was apparently to make me look suitably ridiculous.  Hair slicked back revealing my giant forehead, and smoky eyes resembling those of Cat Woman, I guess this is the Asian idea of how best to represent the men's business suits we were showing today.

The train sets off and I begin my slow (oh so slow) journey back home.  During the ride home I barely move, and every pair of eyes on the train barely moves from me.  Truly, I am perpetuating the myth in mainland China that all foreigners are aliens - the only super tall, super white, super blonde, big foreheaded, make-up wearing laowei that some of these subway patrons have ever seen in their lives, and if not their lives, certainly the only one on the subway at rush hour.

To be clear, I'm a male model from England currently floating around Asia in search of adventure and a taste of adventure.  Having travelled extensively with modelling I am in the unique and lofty position to give insight into the mind-boggling Asian modelling market.

The next day I'm pulling double duty.  Working 2 days in a row I admit to finding a little tiring.  As ridiculous as it sounds posing at work can be really exhausting (I kid you not).  I used to scorn at people who complained about working too much, never again!

Today I'm shooting a look book for some 'fashiony' brand - the kind of black drapery I find easiest to work with.  Hitting the camera lense with my signature look (somewhere between the dead-pan and the smize), the clients click happily away to themselves in Mandarin while I twirl around like their teenage dream - their dreams were obviously filled with ethereal androgyne vampires who wear Dior Homme knockoffs and are able to change clothes quickly.

Feeling pretty pleased with myself by the end of the day having been showered with praise and frankly, ridiculous compliments: "you look like Agyness Deyn" (I definitely do not), it's easy to believe you're at the centre of the universe.  To describe this feeling as uncomfortable, and at the same time a little fabulous would be an expression that could blanket my entire experience of modelling in Asia.  The key to staying sane is to love it, but not too much.  Hate it, but not too much, and to remember that happiness is just a 3 month contract away.

Bravo....and indeed a damn jolly good show to the footwear designers at the moment. In my opinion some of the most stylish looking footwear available under £100. I think these designs are all incredible and would pull their own weight against the designer big dogs like Philip Lim. Love it. The neon sandals in particular BELONG, on my feet.

Philip lim