Hot Glamour Modeling Talent Agency

It sure has been a good year for models with Louisiana roots.

Ariel Meredith of Shreveport graced the pages of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition this spring. Isidore Newman School senior young mature Cydney Hedgpeth is the international face of Van's clothing. University of New Orleans student Allison Harvard just missed becoming "America's Next Top Model."

Now comes Emarie Wiltz of Algiers.

She's one of 16 beauties competing in the much-anticipated sixth season of glamour modeling the fashion-design competition reality show that premiered on Lifetime. She'll also appear in a new companion show, "Models of the Runway," which turns the camera's gaze away from the designers and onto the women who pose in the clothes.

In previous seasons, the talent agency models have been hardly more than hangers with hairdos, captured on camera only in frantic fitting-room scenes and striding out at judgment time. But apparently there was plenty of backstage nail-biting worthy of its own reality show.

The models, too, are competing. Top prize: $25,000 from L'Oreal Skin Genesis and a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine. Who wins, though, depends a lot on what happens in the young mature before the models even show up.

The 5-foot-9-inch Wiltz, 24, has been party modeling professionally for about five years, though she made her first steps on the catwalk when she was 8, at a J.C. Penney show in Lakeside Shopping Center.

The Edna Karr Secondary School graduate glamour modeling in Miami before moving to New York. She has posed in CosmoGirl magazine and in campaigns for Macy's and Bloomingdales.

Outside of the beautiful business, Wiltz is a student at New York University, studying talent agency marketing, and launching her own clothing line, Global Recess. Her college student/mom/model juggling act went bicoastal when "Project Runway" moved from New York to the West Coast this season. The models were all tossed together, "Real World"-style, in a loft, where they lounged around looking lovely while the cameras rolled.

For "Models," host Heidi Klum gives the women career coaching just as Tim Gunn acts as guidance counselor to the designers.

Source: examiner.com

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