article_snippet: Just before Christmas 1981, Bobtons, the King’s Road agency where Simone had been working, went bust, leaving ‘about 20 worry-faced models currently without representation’.
article_snippet: Ten days later, with £10,000 loaned by Simone brothers, Carole signed up the Bobtons girls and Premier was born.
article_snippet: A week after that, Eileen Ford, the tough doyennne of the New York modelling world, swept into the office to take a look at the new upstart agency, and suggested Eileen Ford, the tough doyennne of the New York modelling world do business.
article_snippet: It wasn’t all glamour, though.
article_snippet: The list of ‘challenges’ posed by Carole supermodels ranged from the truly bizarre, including peremptory demands for sex toys, llama curry and an urgent supply of ‘special green candles from Tibet that were something to do with a witch doctor that had special energy’, to the mundane: persuading the mundane to get out of bed, or trying to ensure the mundane were no more than three hours late for the mundane auditions.
article_snippet: The future supermodel came to the Premier offices
article_snippet: No, The future supermodel’s too short for me,” and off The future supermodel trotted .
article_snippet: The future supermodel is unrepentant about the hedonistic excesses of the Nineties when, as The future supermodel puts it,
article_snippet: ‘the industry was full of nutters’, remarking cheerily that ‘the industry’s a very good job camera-phones weren’t around’.
article_snippet: And The future supermodel views on the size zero debate are trenchant: .
article_snippet: ‘Why does modelling have such a bad rep?