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UMG Model · A UMG Network Collective Agency

Your Face.
Everywhere.

UMG Model places women and men in publications, commercials, movies, runway fashion shows and brand ambassador campaigns — in New York, London, Milan, Paris and markets all over the world. If you have the look and the drive, this is where your career gets built.

Est. within the UMG Network Collective · Founded by Mr. Ruben Burgos
Submit Your Photos See the 2027 Fashion Shows Meet the Showcase Roster

Why Join UMG Model

A respected agency that treats models like professionals — because you are.

Certified & Respected

A certified agency platform inside the UMG Network Collective — your portfolio is created and held to a professional standard.

Founder-Led

Founded and directed by Mr. Ruben Burgos, a veteran of media, publishing and broadcasting since 2001. Real leadership, real relationships.

Worldwide Placements

Castings and bookings across the fashion capitals and beyond — runway, editorial, commercial and film work on a global circuit.

Premium Exposure

Signed models receive the agency’s premium digital exposure assets — custom portfolio, comp card, digitals, runway reel and more.

Safe & Welcoming

No fee to submit. No nude photos — ever. Women and men of all looks are welcomed and treated with respect, start to finish.

The Five Lanes

Five roads to a real career

Most agencies push you into one box. UMG Model develops you across five lanes of work — so one booking leads to the next, and your face builds a name in more than one world at a time.

Lane 01

Publications

Magazine editorials, covers and fashion stories. Publication work builds your name — a tear sheet from a respected magazine is currency that casting directors everywhere understand.

  • Editorial shoots & cover features
  • Lookbooks and fashion stories
  • Features across the UMG media network, including Dope Star Magazine
Lane 02

Commercials

Television and digital campaigns for brands that need faces people trust. Commercial work is where modeling becomes a steady income — beauty, lifestyle, fashion and product campaigns shot for TV, streaming and social.

  • TV & streaming commercial castings
  • Beauty, skincare and lifestyle campaigns
  • Digital and social-first brand content
Lane 03

Movies

Film and television roles for models ready to step in front of the motion camera. From featured background to speaking roles, the agency submits its models to productions looking for striking, camera-ready faces.

  • Feature film & television castings
  • Music video and streaming productions
  • On-set professionalism coaching for new talent
Lane 04

Runway Fashion Shows

The catwalk is modeling’s highest stage. UMG Model prepares and submits its models for fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris — and for the regional and international shows where careers are launched.

  • Fashion week castings on the global circuit
  • Walk coaching and runway reels
  • Regional shows that build your book fast
Lane 05

Clothing Brand Ambassadors

The top of the business: representing fashion houses and clothing brands as the face of a label. Our models train and position themselves toward the caliber of houses the whole industry aspires to — Gucci, Fendi, Prada, Dior, Louis Vuitton and Versace — and the rising brands spending like them.

  • Brand ambassador & face-of-the-label campaigns
  • Clothing brand partnerships and launches
  • Long-term contracts that build real careers

The UMG Promise

Comfortable. Professional. Safe.

Modeling attracts dreamers, and too many people try to take advantage of them. UMG Model was built the opposite way — a place where women and men can pursue this career with their dignity fully intact.

No fee to submit

Sending your submission costs nothing. Your photos and details go straight to the agency team for review.

No nude photos. Ever.

We never ask for them, at any stage, for any reason. Any legitimate casting we submit you to works the same way.

All looks welcomed

Editorial, commercial, curve, classic, mature, street — the industry books every kind of face. So do we.

Your photos stay private

Submissions are reviewed by the agency team only. Nothing is posted or shared without your signed agreement.

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The 2027 Circuit

The Biggest Fashion Shows of 2027

Every major runway week on the planet, in one calendar — the Big Four, the men’s circuit, haute couture, swim, bridal and the rising weeks in Asia, the Middle East and beyond. This is the map of where UMG Model aims its talent in 2027.

Confirmed — officially announced Expected — pattern-based window, official dates to be announced

Dates marked Confirmed have been announced by the organizer or governing fashion council. Dates marked Expected follow each event’s established annual pattern and are shown as windows — always re-check the organizer’s official calendar before booking travel or committing to castings.

At a Glance CONFIRMED DATES ONLY

Dates (2027)EventCity
Jan 12–15Pitti Immagine Uomo 111Florence
Jan 15–19Milan Fashion Week Men’s (AW27)Milan
Jan 19–24Paris Fashion Week Men’s (AW27)Paris
Jan 25–28Paris Haute Couture (SS27)Paris
Jan 29 – Feb 1Berlin Fashion Week (AW27)Berlin
Feb 1–5Copenhagen Fashion Week (AW27)Copenhagen
Feb 8–12New York Fashion Week (AW27)New York
Feb 18–22London Fashion Week (AW27)London
Feb 23 – Mar 1Milan Fashion Week Women’s (AW27)Milan
Mar 1–9Paris Fashion Week Women’s (AW27)Paris
Jun 3–6Miami Swim Week (PARAISO)Miami Beach
Jun 15–18Pitti Immagine Uomo 112Florence
Jun 18–22Milan Fashion Week Men’s (SS28)Milan
Jun 22–27Paris Fashion Week Men’s (SS28)Paris
Jul 1–4Berlin Fashion Week (SS28)Berlin
Jul 5–8Paris Haute Couture (AW27)Paris
Sep 27 – Oct 5Paris Fashion Week Women’s (SS28)Paris

Sources: FHCM (Paris), Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (Milan), CFDA, British Fashion Council, Berlin Fashion Week, Copenhagen Fashion Week, Pitti Immagine, PARAISO Miami Beach.

Submit to Walk These Runways

Model Submission

Step Into the Frame

Behind this form is the fashion world as it looks right now — power tailoring, sheer layering, metallic couture, old-Hollywood crimson, sculptural whites, leather and gold. The looks scrolling behind you evoke the caliber of the great houses — Gucci, Fendi, Prada, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Versace. Your submission is how you start walking toward them.

Model Submission Form

Complete the form and press Send Submission — your email app will open with everything addressed to the agency at info@umgmodel.com, ready for you to send. Nothing is stored on this website; your submission travels by your own email, directly to us.

Models 18+ apply directly. Under 18: a parent or guardian must be involved — note it in your message.

Natural light, minimal makeup, fitted simple clothing. Never send nude or lingerie photos — we will never ask for them.

Prefer email directly? Write to info@umgmodel.com with your details and photo links. UMG Model is an independent agency; the fashion houses named on this page represent the caliber of brands our models aspire to represent — no affiliation is implied.

Premium Digital Assets of Exposure

The tools that get a model booked

Casting directors decide in seconds, from what’s on their screen. UMG Model builds its represented models a complete set of premium digital exposure assets — the professional materials that turn a face into a booking.

The Flagship

Your Custom Portfolio — Created by the Agency

A custom digital portfolio, designed and built for you on the UMG Model platform — a respected, certified agency presentation of your best looks, your stats, your lanes and your booking contact, all on one elegant page you can send to any casting director on earth.

This is the asset models dream about: not a folder of loose photos, but a designed portfolio with an agency’s name behind it. Your strongest editorial, commercial and runway images, curated by the team, presented to the standard the big markets expect.

What you receive: a designed digital portfolio page · curated best-looks gallery · full stats & measurements · lane highlights · direct booking contact through the agency.

Apply via Model SubmissionSee the standard: sample press kits

Digital Comp Card

What it is: your sed card — the industry’s calling card, with your best headshot, key looks and full stats on one designed sheet.

You receive: a print-ready and phone-ready comp card, updated as your look and book grow.

For: every represented model

Professional Digitals & Polaroids

What it is: the clean, natural, no-filter photos castings actually judge by — shot and selected to agency standard.

You receive: a full digital set: headshot, profile, full-length, smiling and movement frames.

For: new faces & casting-ready models

Editorial Test Shoot

What it is: a styled editorial session that creates the magazine-grade images your portfolio needs to be taken seriously.

You receive: a directed shoot and a curated set of retouched editorial images for your book.

For: models building toward publications

Runway Reel

What it is: a video walk reel — your walk, your turn, your presence, edited into the short film runway castings ask for first.

You receive: a polished walk reel ready for fashion week submissions worldwide.

For: runway & fashion week hopefuls

Social Media Exposure Kit

What it is: features across the UMG Network Collective — Dope Star Magazine, Dope Music Block, HipHopsRoadToRiches and OnTvCable — putting your face in front of the network’s combined audience.

You receive: coordinated features, announcement posts and a press-style introduction as a UMG Model.

For: signed models launching publicly

Magazine Feature Placement

What it is: editorial placement work — pitching your portfolio and story to magazines and digital publications for features and fashion stories.

You receive: professional pitches with your custom portfolio, and published tear sheets when placed.

For: models with a developed book

Casting Submissions Service

What it is: the agency submits you — your portfolio, comp card and reel sent to casting directors, designers and brands worldwide, matched to your lanes.

You receive: ongoing professional submissions without cold-emailing the industry yourself.

For: represented models, all lanes

Exposure assets are premium services of the agency, built for models signed or represented by UMG Model. The first step to all of them is the same: send your submission, get reviewed, and let the team build your book the right way.

Apply via Model Submission

The Model Map

Fashion in All 50 States

America’s fashion scene is bigger than two coasts. Tap any state to open its fashion file — the shows, weeks and casting circuits that run there, plus an original word on that state’s style, written by Mr. Ruben Burgos.

About the Agency

UMG Model — where faces become careers

UMG Model is the modeling agency of the UMG Network Collective, founded and directed by Mr. Ruben Burgos — a veteran of film, media arts and broadcasting who has built platforms for artists since 2001. From our base in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the agency develops women and men for work in publications, commercials, movies, runway fashion shows and brand ambassador campaigns, with placements aimed at the fashion capitals of the world.

The agency exists for one reason: talented people with extraordinary faces were being ignored by an industry that only answered its own phone calls — or worse, being charged for the privilege of dreaming. UMG Model answers. We review every submission, we build real portfolios on a certified agency platform, and we submit our models to real castings across the five lanes.

Our promise is simple. Respect first: no fees to submit, no nude photos ever requested, professional conduct at every step. Real work second: publications, commercials, movies, runway and ambassador campaigns — not promises of fame, but a professional machine pointed at bookings. And ambition always: from Queens to Paris, our models aim at the biggest rooms in fashion, and we build the assets that get them through the door.

Join UMG Model

The UMG Network Collective

  • UMG Model — this agency: modeling, runway & brand talent
  • UMG Network — sound design, recording & talent management — umgnetwork.com
  • Dope Star Magazine — publication & features — DopeStarMagazine.com
  • Dope Music Block — artist exposure & press kits — DopeMusicBlock.com
  • HipHopsRoadToRiches — artist reviews & come-up stories — HipHopsRoadToRiches.com
  • OnTvCable — film, series & documentary guide — OnTvCable.com
  • The Artist Experience Podcast — interviews & industry talk
  • Ruben Burgos Management — artists & models become legacy brands, est. 1998 — RubenBurgos.com

Agency contact: info@umgmodel.com
Base: Jamaica, Queens, New York

UMG Model Showcase Roster

Sample press kits, built to the UMG standard

Fifty sample press kits showing exactly how a UMG Model custom portfolio presents a model: a four-look photo board, full stats, a written bio and a short interview — the complete package casting directors receive. Filter by lane, or by women and men, then open any kit.

Showcase press kit — a demonstration of the UMG Model custom portfolio standard.

Lane
Models

Showcase press kit — a demonstration of the UMG Model custom portfolio standard.

The Portfolio Board

Four looks, one standard

The Bio

The Interview

In their own words

Stats & Measurements

The Show — History & Today

How it became a room that matters

For a Working Model

A Futuristic Look

Submit to Be Considered