His fashion house and modeling school are Moscow landmarks.
Berry Gordy Jr., who founded the Detroit music label in 1959, had decided his young diamonds-in-the-rough required some polishing, and Maxine Powell — former model, actress and proprietor of a top local modeling school — was just the person to do it.
Although some of the models in the early post cards came from modeling schools, many were recruited after being spotted in restaurants and even right off the beach.
"Schools are like modeling agencies and tutors like stage actors," said Richard Eng, an English tutor king who is co-founder of Beacon College, a cram school that is registered with the Hong Kong Education Department.
Modeling school can be expensive, and whether or not they will teach you how to become a model is questionable.
But if your parents won't let you go to a modeling school, there's still hope!
She had been planning to open up a modeling school, and it was so unlikely that she would do anything to harm her little dog, Pinky, also killed by the gas.
Don't think though that you have to go to a modeling school though, it isn't a requirement, and no one will turn you down simply based on that fact.
"Before Jerry came along, there were only robber barons who were out there running modeling schools," said Carmen Dell'Orefice, who has modeled with the Ford agency for 60 years.
The topic of the summer school was devoted to modeling and verification of cyber-physical systems.
