Carole White Explained

Carole White is a British former model, and co-founder of Premier Model Management.

Early life

White was born in Deal, Kent in 1950 but raised in Ghana. At the age of five she was sent to a boarding-school in England, then later to a convent in Belgium, an experience she described as repressive but one that helped shape her future career and fuel her interest in modelling. She became a model at the Lucy Clayton Modelling Academy,[1] then decided this career was not for her.[2] Instead she became a booker and in 1970 joined London model agency Bobton's,[3] where she stayed for seven years looking after the early modeling careers of Jo Wood, Andrea Dellal and the Bond girl Tania Mallet.

Premier Model Management

In 1981, together with her brother Chris Owen, she founded Premier Model Management.[4] Initially representing 40 girls, they ran the agency from their kitchen table.[5] She was Naomi Campbell's agent when the model became the first black woman to make it on the cover of the French Vogue in 1988.[6]

White is a campaigner against racial discrimination in fashion.[7]

In autumn 2010 Premier Model Management allowed television cameras into their offices for the filming of Channel 4's The Model Agency.[8] The seven part documentary followed White and her co-workers for two months revealing what life is really like behind the scenes. It aired in the UK in February 2011.[9] Her contract with Naomi Campbell stopped over a dispute regarding a perfume commercial.

Charles Taylor trial

In 2010, White testified at the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, alleging that her former client, Naomi Campbell, had accepted blood diamonds from him.[10] In a statement, White says that she remembers Taylor attending the 1997 dinner in South Africa and saying he would like to give diamonds to Campbell.[11]

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Danielle . A Stellar Performance: Carole White . Premiermodelstyle.com . 2011-02-25 . 2012-04-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425102631/http://www.premiermodelstyle.com/premier-blog/index.php/2011/02/09/a-stellar-performance-carole-white/ . 2012-04-25 .
  2. Web site: Carole White: the outspoken model agent . Fashion.telegraph.co.uk . 2012-04-19.
  3. Web site: Carole White. 2020-07-02. www.themodelagency.tv.
  4. Web site: Carole White . Themodelagency.tv . 2011-02-21 . 2012-04-19.
  5. Web site: Carole White - the models' mum | Life & Style . 2011-08-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110831223619/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23931672-carole-white---the-models-mum.do . 2011-08-31 .
  6. Web site: Day . Elizabeth . 2015-02-15 . Carole White: 'The fashion business is cruel. Everyone is greedy for the new face' . 2022-09-02 . the Guardian . en.
  7. Web site: The Model Agency - Interviews - Interview with Carole White . Channel 4 . 2011-10-21 . 2012-04-19.
  8. Web site: Carole White - the models' mum. 2011-03-14. Evening Standard. en. 2020-02-17.
  9. Web site: Carole White: The Model Maker . Reviewmagazine.org.uk . 2011-03-11 . 2012-04-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120330161948/http://reviewmagazine.org.uk/index.php/2011/03/11/carole-white-the-model-maker/ . 2012-03-30 .
  10. Web site: Former agent Carole White: Naomi Campbell flirted with Charles Taylor . bbc.co.uk . 2010-08-09 . 2012-04-19.
  11. Web site: Prosecution Asks To Subpoena Naomi Campbell In War Crimes Trial Because of New Evidence of 'Blood Diamond' Gift. Schecter. Anna. 2010-04-23. ABC News. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20100524015146/http://abcnews.go.com:80/Blotter/prosecution-asks-subpoena-naomi-campbell-war-crimes-trial-blood-diamond/story?id=10700432 . 2010-05-24 . 2020-02-17.

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