Being “discovered” doesn’t look the same as it used to. Gone are the days when top modeling agencies would find modelesque ...

The marketing agency model has continued to evolve, leaving the traditional agency model for dead. As a result, a less-hierarchical, more scalable and flexible model has taken its place.

Jaymyn La Vallee, a Squamish and Kwakwaka’wakw model and educator, recalls being told by her previous modelling agency to conceal her Indigenous identity to appear more “ethnically ambiguous.” ...