Founded by Yannis Nikolaou and Jan-Eric Luetjen in 1999 > Place Models became one of the leading agencies in the German market within a year. Since 2000 our team is working with all major clients in Germany & Europe, dealing as well with key artbuyers worldwide for their highend brands and international castings. The agency represents now about 500 models from all over the world and has been scouting many own German models through the last twenty years and successfully putting them on the international map.

Co-Founder Yannis is discovering since many years new top talents every season and is therefore known in the industry as one of the best model scouts worldwide. His scouting eye mostly catches unique faces with an edge, highlevel look and the potential for a long lasting modelling career. As agent and manager Yannis first interest is always to take good care of his models and to protect them with all his power. Due to his reputation and strong international contacts he confirms our models & new faces from Hamburg directly with the most prestigious clients worldwide & big brands of the industry, such as Calvin Klein, Prada, Versace, Gucci, Jil Sander, Hugo Boss just to name a few.

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