Art + Commerce Joins IMG.Expands IMG's Fashion Business Portfolio NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there , the world's premier sports, entertainment and media company, today announced that it has acquired Art + Commerce, the leading management agency with an impressive client roster of photographers, stylists, creative directors, and hair and make-up artists. Based in New York, Art + Commerce will continue to operate under the Art + Commerce name and will remain under the leadership of its three founding principals, Anne Kennedy, Jim Moffat James "Jim" Moffat (born January 27 1960 in Dunfermline, Scotland) is a Scottish former footballer and is currently manager of Forfar Athletic. He played in goal for several Scottish lower league clubs. External links
IMG's fashion division is the global leader in the management and production of fashion weeks and designer fashion events. The division owns and operates many of the world's most important fashion events, including Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (New York), Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios (Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ), Fashion Fringe (London), Rosemount Australia Fashion Weeks (Sydney and Melbourne), The Singapore Fashion Festival The Singapore Fashion Festival is an annual event held since 2001. [1] 2006 Festival The 2006 Festival was a ten-day event held from 24 March to 2 April 2006. It was considered the best fashion festival for international and local designers in Singapore. and Lakme Fashion Week (Mumbai, India). IMG Fashion also publishes The Daily group of publications which includes The Daily Front Row, the bi-monthly The Daily Mini and www.fashionweekdaily.com. Also part of the IMG Fashion network is IMG Models IMG Models is an international modelling agency with offices in New York, Paris, London, Milan and Singapore. It is a division of IMG. Models represented by IMG (past and present)
"The addition of Art + Commerce to IMG Fashion represents a significant step in our strategy to expand our fashion businesses into different arenas," said Chuck Bennett, Senior Corporate Vice President of IMG. "Art + Commerce brings the most notable image makers which perfectly compliments our activities throughout the world. Jim, Anne, Leslie and their team bring an exceptional combination of experience and unique skills. We are delighted to be working with them and are looking forward to their future contributions." "We are so pleased to be a part of IMG and look forward to working closely with them to enhance and expand our artists' opportunities throughout the world across IMG's many global platforms," said Anne Kennedy of Art + Commerce. Since its founding in the 1980s, Art + Commerce has represented many of the most important photographers, stylists, creative directors and hair and make-up artists. The company offers support and development for each artist's career including exhibition, publication, and educational projects. The Art + Commerce Archive is a unique collection of photographs available for licensing to advertising, editorial and special projects. This archive offers unprecedented access to the visionary work of such artists as, Steven Meisel, Inez van Lamsweerde Inez van Lamsweerde (b. September 25, 1963 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch fashion photographer known for her subversive approach to fashion and art photography. She recently won second prize in the portraits singles category of the World Press Photo contest for a photograph and Vinoodh Matadin, Craig McDean, Ellen von Unwerth Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954 in Germany) is a photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years herself before moving behind the camera, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs. and the Estates of Guy Bourdin, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Ewrin Blumenfeld. IMG also represents many of the most important sports figures in the world including Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova and is one of the world's largest independent licensing companies. About IMG IMG is a diversified global business with two major business segments: IMG Sports & Entertainment, and IMG Media. IMG employs over 2,600 people in 30 countries. Forstmann Little & Co. purchased IMG in 2004. IMG Sports & Entertainment includes: consulting services; event ownership and management; fashion events and models representation; licensing; golf course design; client representation in golf, tennis, broadcasting, European football, rugby, cricket, motorsports, coaching, Olympic sports, and action sports. In addition, IMG Academies is the world's largest and most advanced, state-of-the-art, multi-sport training and educational facilities, delivering world-class sports training experiences to over 12,000 junior, collegiate, adult, and professional athletes each year. IMG Media, which includes content production subsidiaries TWI Twi n. A variety of the Akan language spoken in Ghana. , Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ), and Tiger Aspect Productions Tiger Aspect Productions is a British television production company, particularly noted for its situation comedies. Co founded by Oscar® winner Peter Bennett-Jones, its productions have included popular hits such as The Vicar of Dibley (shown on BBC One) and Mr. (TAP), is recognized as a global leader in the delivery of traditional and new media content and services, with Internet, broadband, and mobile expertise, transforming how audiences access and interact with content. IMG Media produces and distributes over 10,000 hours of sports, documentary, drama, comedy, entertainment, popular factual, and children's content annually, over multiple platforms across 200 countries, including award-winning television and radio programming. It also represents the broadcast rights to many of the world's premier sporting events and has the world's biggest sports archive with more than 250,000 hours of footage. More information about IMG is available at www.imgworld.com, www.darlowsmithson.com, and www.tigeraspect.co.uk. |
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