I founded O Models First Faces in Manila and Iloilo ten years ago. It was a humble move
for me to help models from Iloilo City, my hometown, be able to manage themselves in the
modelling industry while my head studio was in Makati with my huge modelling market in Boracay. While doing my professional
works around the world, O Models took its hiatus for years.
The infinity of an "O", "O: from Iloilo, "O" from Boracay, "Oh" whatever......
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Ria and Kim
Model Evan in Boracay shoot
But it is time for me to revive it this year as the demand for models suddenly surge up amongst clients and network specially in Boracay. I thought many promising models in my town Iloilo, being home to some of the most gorgeous people in my country, need a point of take off with becoming professional models. But anybody from other parts of the country will be taken in as well.
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The logo I designed for Runway Productions-the forerunner of Philippine Fashion Week. Director Joey Espino with then staff ( now famous directors too ) Ariel Lozada and Raymond Villanueva were my colleques.
O Models who made it to the top. Both became the first Nautilus image models.Afterwhich followed by Ilonggo model Rey Gambol and currently by supermodel Ria Bolivar and Kim Lumampao.
Ria and Kim
Model Rey climb to the top includes billboard in Boracay
Model Evan in Boracay shootBut it is time for me to revive it this year as the demand for models suddenly surge up amongst clients and network specially in Boracay. I thought many promising models in my town Iloilo, being home to some of the most gorgeous people in my country, need a point of take off with becoming professional models. But anybody from other parts of the country will be taken in as well.
( Link to O Models set cards charter beginnings in you tube . PLEASE CLICK FOR THE LINK @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TVPeENnaqQ )
Two of the Philippne models who are my townmates.
Ria Bolivar, who started to model for me as a start-up, and always my bride on
the ramp, became Best Model of the World Philippines winner and Elite Model
Philippines and now the Philippines Top Super Model. I introduce Filipino
Italian Joe Ozbot to the realm of modelling and put him in his first editorial
shoot for Metro Magazine---a cool 6 page feature for a first timer.
Connecting my design with models at the Fashion and Design Council of the Philippines which I co-founded, here at the FDCP for Bench with model American Persian Charles Gareh
Eja. One of the leading models of O Models re-launching. Eja is the image model of Project Zero under Smart Communications. She graced the runways in Manila and Boracay for this purpose.
The idea of O Models Management is much like the
Professional Models Association of the Philippines (PMAP) where models manage
themselves well in the tricky fashion and design business. They are mentored first and go on
their own only after they are able to get the ropes correctly--confident enough to get projects and paid properly.
Super model Ria Bolivar, a native of Iloilo, appearing in our regular shows in Boracay during summertime. At O Models talents must know how to market themselves after they have been coached with the tools of the modelling industry—not only how they look and present themselves but managing their bookings and connections. Working with many PMAP models for more than 15 years, I must say, I will be able to share amongst them the great treasure of talents I see around them so our fashion industry moves further upwards.
Actors Filipino- British Andrew Wolff, current Mr. World First runner-up, Fiilipino Italian Nancy Castellione,Ffilipino Marco Alcaraz on my runway— for Neatea Beach Boracay.
Super model Ria Bolivar, a native of Iloilo, appearing in our regular shows in Boracay during summertime. At O Models talents must know how to market themselves after they have been coached with the tools of the modelling industry—not only how they look and present themselves but managing their bookings and connections. Working with many PMAP models for more than 15 years, I must say, I will be able to share amongst them the great treasure of talents I see around them so our fashion industry moves further upwards.
Actors Filipino- British Andrew Wolff, current Mr. World First runner-up, Fiilipino Italian Nancy Castellione,Ffilipino Marco Alcaraz on my runway— for Neatea Beach Boracay.
O Models means perfect circle. The letter “O” is a full
circle, too. It goes around. Models have to sustain themselves in professional manner to make it work for them.
The infinity of an “O” demands that models have to go around through extreme training, discipline and professional ethics the whole time in a never ending circle before they can be called, after all, professional models. But of course, the first requirement is models will have the models’ physical attributes and passion to be become one. It is not easy but it can be done through professional help.
The infinity of an “O” demands that models have to go around through extreme training, discipline and professional ethics the whole time in a never ending circle before they can be called, after all, professional models. But of course, the first requirement is models will have the models’ physical attributes and passion to be become one. It is not easy but it can be done through professional help.
Fashion editorials
rolling the camera for a stunning model named Barbie beyond the runway in Boracay
O Models launched the beginnings of some aspiring models
from Iloilo, Manila, Davao, Cebu,
Boracay and internationally such as countries like Germany, South Korea and
USA. Some of the talents made their names in the limelight including TV
celebrity Boracay girl Filipino-American Max Collins, porcelain beauty Sandra
Larsson who graced the many print ads and eventually did her luck on TV, American raised Iloilo statuesque model John Tanchuan
who garnered top modelling awards in Manila, head turner Quito Treñas whose
prolific modelling career today came a long was like I was able to give him TV commercials and Metrowear shows in Manila. Ditto for Iloilo manikin Dimples de Asis and many others who travelled to Manila to try their luck in the competitive world of ramp and commercial modelling.
Quito debut at the MetroWear show
John the Metro wear show in Nautilus PJ Aranador
One of the best O Models talents emerged a big winner, Iloilo stunner commercial, print, ramp and TV
talent Filipino-Italian Cosmopolitan hunk Joe Ozbot whose career O Models
launched in six full pages of glossy fashion feature in the prestigious Metro
Magazine. O Models gave him his big
Manila break with his first runway show with the Professional Models
Association of the Philippines. It was a great duo for him with runaway kitten Wilma
Doesnt. It also launched his career in Cebu earning him five figures while I was the Creative Director
of Bijoux Cebu where many of the most drop dead models from Cebu, Manila and
abroad made Shangrila Resorts and Spa in Mactan their home for series of international shows.
Joe ( middle) at Bijoux Cebu
Bijoux Cebu with Ilonggo model Joe Ozbot. Celebrity models Richard Gutierrez, Isabelle Daza and Miss Earth Karla Paula Henry
O Models will be re-launched in Iloilo by December 2013 to give a good head start for 2014...mostly for the heat of shows in Boracay. It
will reveal its prime first face models who will be launched in fashion shows and print
ads. These talents will be gracing the first green and social design resort
fashion week in Boracay in summer 2014 which I am organizing. This advocacy-loaded fashion & industry
scene will gather the most gorgeous models in the country and abroad to
converge into the world’s best beach for a purpose---to restore and conserve the environment and our own culture.O models are also exposed people, to make them aware of society, by immersing them in social projects like volunteers in the Ati liveliood project in Boracay.
Models at volunteer work in Boracay. Moulding a sense of service on the other side of their glamorous life.
Models at volunteer work in Boracay. Moulding a sense of service on the other side of their glamorous life. 
O Models will have its prime headquarters in Boracay as well
where by 2014 I will be needing huge pool of talents to supply the surge of
shows, events and modelling requirements needed in the island while it copes up
with its whopping 1.5 million annual tourist arrivals. On the pipeline is to
grab the modelling requirements of Nestea Beach, Smart events and other major
ones where modelling is within professional organizations and are impeccable to the clients and
less headaches to the organizers which I
thought I have delivered for the past great shows in Boracay for years. But beyond Boracay, there are projects which are
waiting for Manila, Cebu, Bacolod, Davao and resorts in Palawan and as far as
forthcoming shows in USA and Asia.
International shows
beyond the ramp, models as show hosts at a beauty contest O Models will gather its new set of talents through its first official meeting in first week of December while some of its talent will already hit the runway in Manila this November. Three major shows are coming up for me: Las Obras for the prestigious Festival of Trees at The Jaquar Room at the Fort in Makati and the Caritas Manila shows in Trinoma and eventually at the Ayala Malls. Three great models from Iloilo will grab their world premiere runway in these shows. They are the lucky ones with the X factors of modelling and I am sure they will create a stir. They will rub elbows with Manila models.
While there is a need to organize our local models now, this is only
the beginning. Its main headquarters will be housed at the I-fashion school once it is opened. Models will be coached in personality development, public speaking, hosting, time management, acting and image building. (see link at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1391527264397802&set=a.1391526661064529.1073741832.100006216242891&type=3&theater
O Models is open to those interested. Just message me your intention in my facebook until O models will launch its own official fb account during the launching. We will schedule a goo see and we will screen you before the start of December. Its first official meeting of talents for a qualifying round will be on December 7, 2013 at Wawa Heritage Restaurant in Jaro, Iloilo City. Food will be served free. Come as you are and we will decide whether or not we can make you a big star.
Be ready. You could be next.
Filipino German Model Simon
O Models is open to those interested. Just message me your intention in my facebook until O models will launch its own official fb account during the launching. We will schedule a goo see and we will screen you before the start of December. Its first official meeting of talents for a qualifying round will be on December 7, 2013 at Wawa Heritage Restaurant in Jaro, Iloilo City. Food will be served free. Come as you are and we will decide whether or not we can make you a big star.
Be ready. You could be next.
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