22/11/2024
✨INTRODUCING our JUDGE for the Year End Exam✨
Bisi Sowemimo is a professional model, agent & head scout for Ice Model Management. Bisi
is a model with over fifteen years of professional experience in the industry, working as a
runway, fashion & commercial model. She has been fortunate to have worked in many of
the fashion capitals of the world, like Milan, Paris & New York.
Internationally she has walked for designers like Vivienne Westwood, Giorgio Armani, Luciano
Soprani, Etro, and locally she’s walked for top designers such as David Tlale, Rubicon, Gert
Johan Coetzee, too name but a few… She has also graced the covers of various magazines
like Cosmopolitan & True Love, and has featured in many editorials for Elle, Wanted, Dossier,
Grazia magazine, amongst others. TV commercial work include Standard Bank, Sun
International, DSTV, Guinness, Pepsodent, Castle Larger, DSTV, Coca-Cola, Mutzig & Glo Cell
….
Recently, she did an interview with CNN chatting about the modelling and fashion industry.
She also did an interview as a seasoned model for African Fashion International on their
docu-series for 15years of AFI.
Bisi’s job as a model agent consists of booking models for various assignments, developing
strong client relationships, business development calls/e-mails, meeting with models regularly,
social media updates, updating model’s portfolios and z-cards, working with international
agencies to arrange model placements, along with a general passion for the
modelling/fashion industry. Bisi is also the go-to runway/model coach for Ice Models new
faces, who have ambitions to walk the runway at SA Fashion Week.
Bisi is one of the successful few that have been fortunate enough to work both in front &
behind the camera that gives them the rare view into both worlds & an added advantage
to understanding both points of view.