Above: Nadine as she appeared in SHE Magazine from a Caribbean Fashionweek photoshoot last November.Left: Shot on location in Port Royal by noted New York photographer Jeff Gambell.
NADINE WILLIS, a former go-go dancer, was recently signed to top London modelling agency, Select. She was also offered contracts by two Paris agencies and booked to appear in fashion shows. A mere 10 days after her arrival on the London circuit, Willis was showing the collection of hot new designer Richard Nichols during London Fashion Week.
While it is early days yet, her success as an international model is encouraging. On Sunday, she will hold options for four additional designers showing on Fashion Week in London. She will also be casting for the Paris collections that start March 5.
Willis' remarkable journey started about a year ago when she visited Pulse's Trafalgar Road office in Kingston. She told director Kingsley Cooper that she wanted to become a model. Everyone, she said, kept telling her that she should be a model. She wanted to stop dancing in clubs and to start a new life. Cooper said he thought she had something special and so agreed to help. He arranged photo tests for Willis with noted New York photographer, Jeff Gamble.
On seeing her photographs, Cooper told her that he believed her greatest potential would be in Europe and promised to introduce her to that market. Despite a request from a New York agency to Pulse for Willis, Cooper maintained that she should enter the industry in Europe.
Arrangements were made, Willis went to London and the rest, as they say, is
history.
The up and coming model says she is excited by her success and is looking forward to earning significantly from modelling and fulfil her dream of owning a home in Jamaica.
