FOUR YOUNG teenagers are
on their way to New York City
and Europe as winners of the
Next Model Search, staged in
Capilano Mall last Saturday,
Aug. 27, and a West Vancou-
ver teen is among them.

By Carol Crenna
Contributing Writer

The contest was staged by
Lizbell Model Management and
NEXT Models from New York
City.

Though three winners were origi-
nally to be awarded contracts
totalling $150,000, the event was sc
successful —- with between 600 and
800 girls. responding from as far
away as the Sunshine Coast, the
Kootenays and Vancouver Island —
it was decided that four contracts
would be awarded.

Liz Bell, former model and
owner of Lizbell agency. said: ‘The
NEXT agents and those from Karins
Models in Paris and Fashion Models
in Milan were thrilled. They were
particularly impressed with the cali-
bre of girls they saw.

“They were very fussy, probably
because this was an unusual contest
in which the girls didn’t just go from
winning a preliminary event to
finals, they were given contracts
right away.”

Bell added that there were many
beautiful girls at the contest who
were not chosen by NEXT, but
some will be taken into her agency
because they have potential to work
internationally, particularly in Japan.

What was NEXT looking for?

The agents were looking for
“diamonds in the rough,” according
to Bell. They seek what is referred
to in the industry as the “X Factor,”
a certain star quality and spark.

Girls also have to have full lips,
beautiful skin, good proportions and
height. It is a total package.

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A RUNWAY show of back-to-scheo! fashions accompanied a
model search at Capilano Mali on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Bell said that height was not a
major factor in this search for girls
between 13 and 18. “We didn’t have
a height requirernent because when
a girl is 13 years old and growing
like a weed, you can’t nile out any-
thing.”

All of the chosen girls were 5’8”
or taller, however.

Bell singled out a very young girl
in the lineup prior to the competi-
tion, 14-year-old Allia Janes of
Burnaby, who is 5°84”.

“I knew she would be great, but
she said she couldn’t stay because
she had taken a job at the PNE mak-
ing french fries to pay for her course
at a local modeling school,” said
Bell.

“We told her she didn’t need
lessons and we would pay the bal-
ance on what she owed. She then
said she couldn’t come to the actual

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make fries, but we convinced her
that it would be worth her while to
take the day off work.”

Janes was given a $25,000 con-
tract.

Bell said she had met the other
winner of a $25,000 contract, 16-
year-old Renée Janssen, from Port
Moody, while she was shopping
downtown at The Gap.

Bell said she knew Janssen had
the look that the agents like. The
teen told her she would be away on
holidays during the event, so Bell
asked her to come back from holi-
days early, and Janssen was awarded
a contract. She is 5°8", “with a great
smile and wonderful eyes,” said
Bell.

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