Boutique "Anti-Model" Agencies Have Had Quite the Year

If 2015 marked the return of the supermodel, then 2016 will go down as the year when "real" people ruled the runway. Labels such as Vetements, Eckhaus Latta, and Hood By Air bypassed the standard modeling agency, opting for street castings instead; some, like Marques ‘ Almeida, even plucked women from Instagram for their lineup. That shift has been a boon to smaller, niche modeling agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Walter Pearce, who cast the Hood By Air show and modeled in an Eckhaus La...