The marriage soon ended and Casablancas was tied to many gorgeous women and known to romp around with the beautiful young models he worked with including his very public affair with 16 year old Stephanie Seymour. Christjansen in 1978 and they soon after had a son who they named Julian. While the business was booming, Casablancas married his model girlfriend Ms. The lawsuits were unsuccessful and only seemed to have catapulted the names of John Casablancas and the Elite Model Management into the world of high fashion, glitz, glamor and lots of money. Casablancas knew he and his business had to have a presence in the fashion capital of the world to hit it big, so in 1977 he moved back to New York and opened his offices there shortly before Ford and Wilhemina tried to sue Elite for $10 millioin saying Casablancas was infringing on their turf. In 1971 he and a former schoolmate from Le Rosey by the name of Alain Kittler announced that they were founding a new modeling agency that would focus on promoting only elite models which is why they decided to name the company Elite Model Management. He his first modeling business in 1969 and named it Elysee 3 after his Paris phone number. When she expressed to him how unhappy she was with her modeling agency it inspired him to start a business that would represent both photographers and models.
Their marriage didn’t last long, although they did have one child during their short union who they named Cecile.Īfter having problems in their marriage around the year 1967, John found himself living in a small hotel when he met a young 19 year old model by the name of Jeanette Christjansen who was on assignment for Gunnar Larsen, a popular photographer, and soon began having an affair with her. He then married his French girlfriend Marie-Christine against his father’s wishes and they both lived in Brazil for a few years before returning to Paris where he took a public relations job with her brother at an architecture firm. This is when he started picking up jobs in finance, public relations and real estate, even accepting a position as a marketing manager for a Coca-Cola factory in Brazil at the age of 20 offered to him by the mother of a former classmate. When he was 8 years old, young John was sent to Le Rosey boarding school in Switzerland and then attended multiple universities in Europe where he studied economics, but never graduated. His parents had both fled to the United States during the 1930’s to escape the Spanish Civil War where his father Fernando was a popular textile businessman in the large city of Sabadell, Spain. Quite telling is the fact that none of his high-profile former clients - the world's first supermodels - made statements or came to pay their respects.The youngest of three children, John Casablancas was born in Manhattan, New York on Decemto Fernando and Antonia Casablancas. As a middle-aged man spending most of his time around beautiful women, Casablancas acted the part of a degenerate behind the scenes while using his modeling agency as his glamorous playground.Ĭasablancas passed in 2013. Within that context, Casablancas was part of establishing a culture that discriminated and exploited young girls and women beneath a facade of craft and glamour. In addition to his positive influence on modeling, there were numerous scandals involving John Casablancas, especially as his predatory relationships with his modeling talent became clear. Through Elite Models, Casablancas discovered models like Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, and Naomi Campbell, essentially inventing the concept of a " supermodel" in the process.īut, as is the case with many industries, modeling is associated with a dark underbelly.
Five years later, he opened the New York branch of Elite Models and soon went global. John Casablancas founded one of the world's best-known modeling agencies, Elite Model Management, in 1972.
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