The world of high fashion in the 1980s and 1990s was a wild and dangerous place, clad with dirty money and ruthless competition.
This is the story being explored in Model Wars, a new podcast series from Campside Media and iHeartPodcasts.
Campside co-founder Vanessa Grigoriadis is hosting the ten-part series, which pulls back the curtain on this glamorous world with Paul Fisher, who represented the likes of Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour and Carla Bruni, at the center.
Fisher was a straight-A student from the San Fernando Valley who stumbled into the modeling business after a chance encounter with an alleged mobster. With a million dollars in shady funding and no experience, Fisher set out to challenge the titans of the industry, including the legendary Eileen Ford and playboy agent John Casablancas, only to find himself entangled in a “model war” that changed the business forever.
He was involved in the business at the same time that President Trump started his modeling agency and Jeffrey Epstein funded an agency in Paris.
The series will tell his rise and disastrous fall as he partied his way through the glamorous scene, burned through mountains of cash, and built a powerful new agency – all while contending with dangerous backers.
The series, which premieres on September 10, is exec produced by Rachel Winter, who produced Dallas Buyers Club, for Hollywoodland, and Adam Hoff, one of the co-founders of Campside, which is behind series including Chameleon and Hooked.
“I was the anti-Epstein, protective over my models. I was a pit bull,” said Fisher. “Trump Models was being run by top bookers and agents that had been at Elite models that I knew well: Annie, Corrine and Sandra. As far as I knew, Trump Model Management was being run by pros – what was happening behind closed doors, I have no idea.”
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