Jed: Given your history with quite an impressive record, what is it about Page Parkes, the agency that stands out from the rest of the highly competitive modeling industry?
Page Parkes: We have supplied amazing talents for markets anywhere from New York and Europe for the past 21 years. I feel the agencies' moral commitments to the young models and their parents has set the agency standards and made us a choice for new models in this highly competitive modeling industry.
Jed: The partnership you have with Rachel Duran has been tested by time, please tell us something about the partnership? What makes the two of you so successful?
Page: My partnership with Rachel Duran has been so successful due to our opposite personalities. Rachel being very calm and consistent and myself being very emotional and passionate has enabled us to give our clients and models amazing representation. Rachel has always taken care of the business end and I have always been more involved with the models.
I feel it takes an amazing individual to be the person behind a business.
Jed: Your thoughts on some of the most prominent male models the agency has handled throughout the years. Tell us something about these male models.
Page: Regarding our success in the male modeling industry and handling top models: With Channing Tatum, who was a pleasure from day one. Channing never asked the agency to support him financially. He always did his part, giving the agency the power to manage his career to a top level.
Patrick Sullivan.I have been very involved with his career, helping to support and finance his very editorial look so that there were no compromises made on his career for catalog jobs. Now, his campaign as the new Ralph Lauren male model, makes me very proud of these decisions. Tyler Jensen has a very marketable, All-American look. Due to this, he is very successful. His first campaign was for Guess Jeans and he has had great success ever since. We are now looking forward to his sucess as an actor.
Tyson Ballou won the IMTA modeling contest at 15 years old. He lived in Dallas, Texas, where he began his career with Page.214. Due to Tyson's quiet, shy personality and his young age, he spent the next 3 to 4 years traveling back and forth to New York and with the help of IMG NY, Tyson is now one of the most important male models in the world.
All of the prominent models that I have spoken of have several things in common - amazing looks goes without saying that each of them have never changed and to this day are still so very kind and treat me and the Page Parkes team with such great respect.
Jed: What are the plans ahead? As one of the most important and prestigious agencies in the world, what more can the agency aspire for?
Page: The agency's goals are to continue to grow in the crossover division. We have many successful models that have turned into actors and actresses. I feel this is the way for the modeling industry.
Jed: Finally, some words of advice for aspiring male models? What would Page Parkes require one to be able to pass the test and be considered by the agency?
Page: The Page Parkes Corporation is always searching for male models with the inner strength and character to match their physical strong looks.
