The Agencies That Rule Milan
Where Prada, Versace, and Armani cast their faces. A definitive map of the management houses that have made Milan the unrivalled capital of high-fashion talent.
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Spain has long supplied international fashion with some of its most distinctive faces. The agencies anchoring that pipeline are redefining what a European modelling market can be.
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