16th Annual Fashion and Industry Networking party

SEE STYLE EIITE ACTOR / MODEL COY IN THE NEW MOVIE "BROOKLYN FINEST".

Photography by Mike Styles

Style Elite Modeling & Talent Agency attends Exclusive Louis Vuitton Event in Maryland

Happy Holidays from Style Eite Talent Agency

Be sure to stay tuned into Style Elite Modeling & Talent Agency as we start the New Year with new and improved changes to come.

Scary Movie Casting - Males and Females needed of all ethnicity (no experience needed)

Scary Movie Casting - Males and Females needed of all ethnicity (no experience needed)(Nationwide Search)

Looking for Male & Female Models & Actors of all ethnicities for several roles in this movie.

Booking TALENT NOW!

Casting location: 8115 Fenton Street (Suite 208) Silver Spring MD 20910
Castings days:
Wednesday December 9,2009
Thursday December 10, 2009
Friday December 11, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Casting Time: 2- 6pm.
For an interview: Call 301 562-5930 or email sebookings@yahoo.com your photos, location, contact info and stats.
Include the day and time you would like to interview
To schedule an appointment contact us @ Telephone: 301 562-5930 or 301 562-5931
Contact person: Mike Styles CEO & Principal Agent Style Entertainment Model Management & Style Elite Talent Agency
We Cast Models and Actors for several Movie roles, Commercials, Magazine shoots, Music Video Principals, Fashion Runway Shows etc.
To see some of his work visit:
http://www.styleelitetalent.com/
http://www.styleelitetalent.blogspot.com/
http://www.officialglamgirls.com/
www.twitter.com/mikestylesagent

Compensation: $$ per bookings

STYLE ELITE MODEL OPHILIA - JUST RIGHT HOST PARTY AT LOVE NIGHT CLUB IN DC

STYLE ELITE'S AGENT MIKE STYLES BOOKS OPHILIA A HOSTING GIG WITH RAY J @ LOVE NIGHT CLUB IN DC. COME PARTY WITH OPHILIA & STYLE ELITE THIS SATURDAY AT LOVE NIGHT CLUB

VH1 LOVE OF RAY J 2 SHOW PREMIERES TONIGHT 9PM - SEE OUR MODEL OPHILIA (JUST RIGHT) Mike Styles

TRISTON. CONGRATULATIONS ON THE MOVIE ROLE YOU GOT IN " RECOGNIZE THEATRE"

Style Elite congratulates Triston for landing a speaking role in the new Brian Glass film, "Recognize Theatre".

ANGELS STAR STUDDED BIRTHDAY PARTY IN DC

OVER 4000 PEOPLE ATTENDED THIS EVENT! MIKE STYLES

Open To The Public: Movie Director J.Jesses Smith Weekend Acting Bootcamp

Movie Video Director J. Jesses Smith is offering a interactive 2 day acting training course this weekend in Silver Spring Maryland to the DC, MD, VA, PA area for the first time. This Acting Bootcamp will give the needed skills to pursue a career in film & stage acting. Jesses has over 15 years experience doing film projects. Several students that have taken Director Jesses Acting Courses have been featured in his films, commercials, music videos with main, co-staring speaking and non-speaking roles. Jesses has directed actors such as Clifton Powell, 50 Cent, Tretch (Naughty by Nature), Omar Epps, Laz Alonso, Charles Dutont, Michael Wright, Ice T, Snoop Dogg, Antwan Tanner, Shar Jackson, Obba Babatunde (Half & Half), Gwendoline Yeo, Marcus Patrick, Yayo (G-Unit), Shaw Jackson, Llyod Banks (G-Unit), Jamie Hector, Dechen Thurman, Shara Bradford, Patrick McMullan, Tyrin Turner (Boyz in the Hood) etc. Jesses is looking to find the next new actor or actress that he can mold into a future success story. He will be traveling throughout the United States training in certain key areas over a 4 month period. Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland is the second location Movie Video Director J. Jesses is offering his ACTING WEEKEND BOOTCAMP COURSE.
Movie Video Director J. Jesses Smith has directed films and videos to name a few such as:

1. Comedy Jumpoff: Latino Invasion
2. Crime Partners
3. Before I Self Destruct (50 Cent Movie)
4. One Blood (Releasing this Winter 2010)
5. I Get Money - 50 Cent Music Video
6. When the Devil Come
7. T and T Today (Culture of Trinadad & Turbego
8. Death Riders from Hell (New Film Project - Casting now)

ACTING COURSE INFORMATION:

1. Acting Bootcamp course is for 2 days (Saturday & Sunday)
2. Date: Saturday Oct 31st, 2009 and Sunday Nov 1st, 2009
3. Location: Style Elite Talent Agency - 8115 Fenton Street. Suite 208 Silver Spring MD, 20910
4. Time: 10am to 3pm (Saturday and Sunday)
5. 25 Students accepted only!
6. Registration fee: $160 for the two days

Classes are booking up quickly. Contact: Celebrity Talent Agent Mike Styles 301 562-5930 or 202 277-4283

The Do's and Don'ts of Castings For Models and Actors...

. Don't over accessorize, overly dress, or wear excessive amounts of makeup.

Agencies and casting directors want to see what you look like, a natural face is best.

. Do wear clothing that shows your figure.
Leggings and a T-shirt are perfect for any casting.

. Don't have excessive amounts of tattoos or piercings.
Unless the casting is directed towards this, take the piercings out, and cover tattoos up.

. Do research the location of the casting.
Never call to ask for directions. Once you learn the address, it is your responsibility to know the directions.

. Don't show up to a casting without doing research.
Having general knowledge of the agency or casting will help your interview.

. Don't let your nerves or fear show during a casting.
Everyone gets nervous, but it is important to never allow your nerves to show in a casting.

. Do always be yourself.
Always be yourself, being yourself will help you get that principal role in the next big video, or acting role in the next movie.

. Do always be honest.
Never pretend to have more experience than you do.

. Don't talk about other things outside of your career.
Time is of essence, never talk about personal issues in a casting. Don't miss your opportunity talking about other things.

. Do always have your portfolio prepared.
Only have your best photos, and never exceed more than 15. If you only have 5 great photos, then your portfolio should only consist of those 5 photos.

. Do be open to workshops.
Always work on ways to better your technique.

. Do study and know your competition.
Always know who you will be working with, and have knowledge of their careers. Be different and Be better.

. Don't worry about what your competition has achieved.
Always focus on YOU!!! Worrying about another landing the role you wanted will prevent you from succeeding in the future.

. Don't bring anyone with you to a casting.
Never bring someone with you to a casting, it's unprofessional.

. Do remember that all models are your competition.
If you refer a friend to an agency, or recommend a casting, remember that you are now competing for the same jobs.

. Do always keep it professional.
Never mix anything else with the business, as a model or actor, you should be married to this business.

Style Elite Marketing Department,
Briggitta "BJ" Hardin

6 STYLE ELITE MALE MODELS GET FUND RAISER CAMPAIGN JOB

Brooke Bailey and Angel Lola Luv land a role in the new Megan Good Movie

Style Elite Model CAT lands an acting role in the new ICE CUBE MOVIE

Style Elite Model OPHILIA does the LOVE of Ray J show this season

The show premire's NOV 2nd, 2009 this season. Ophilia's success rate as a model / actress / reality star has been a consistant pattern of success stories throughout her career. Be sure to follow up with what happens on the RAY J show this season with her. Look out for the reality show event of the year @ Josephine DC Night Club with Ophilia for the RAY J Show on November 7th, 2009. Click on the link to see more success stories with Ophilia from Style Elite Talent Agency

OPHILIA'S PROMO VIDEO thanks Mike Styles

Style Elite Model JOVITE gets a MACY's Men Line Skin Product Campaign. CONGRATS!

Style Elite Staff person Stylist AZIZ styles models at NY Fashion Week

Style Elite Model Lauren Asia's SOURCE Fashion spread is out in stores now! C below.

Style Elite Modeling & Talent Agency is releasing their Magazine

LOOK OUT FOR IT. IT'S COMING THIS SUMMER!

The Rise of Style Entertainment Witness The Growth By L.D.Williams Jr

When you walk into the office located on 8115 Fenton Street in the downtown section of Silver Spring, the environment is chic, sleek, and modern. The office space is clean and decorated with furniture that manages to create a casual Eurocentric vibe. The front desk which is visible upon entering the confines of the office has requisite office equipment on it. If you take time to look closer at the desk there is a mission statement at the center of the desk. The sign reads: Style Entertainment Model/Talent Management & Style Elite Model/Talent Agency Mission is to map out the talent’s career and create the talent’s image through image making and proper guidance. Our goal is to build the talent up to top status with integrity, honesty and their best interest at heart. Models are made not born…

While the environment at Style Entertainment is casual and welcoming after reading the mission statement there is another thing to be said about the environment at Style Entertainment it is serious business. Mike Styles, CEO of Styles Entertainment is clearly in the business of making models. Anyone who has their eye on the urban model scene and has watched the swift assent of Angel Lola Luv knows that the serious business of Styles Entertainment has been a successful endeavor thus far.

When you look at any company in any industry its public perception, successes and failures all begin with the individual at the helm. At the helm of Styles Entertainment is the Chief Executive Officer Mike Styles. Before Mike Styles embarked on the journey of owning his own modeling agency he began his career as a photographer. “I started as a photographer. I would do a lot of photography with models and actors and I would help them build their portfolios” said Styles. Styles the photographer’s worked was featured in various regional and national publications including but not limited to Streetz magazine and Black Men’s Magazine.

After Styles’ photography helped various models and actors attain bookings and he got several inquires from models he worked with Mike Styles transitioned in his role from photographer into talent manager and agency owner. “After getting a couple of models booked I just started working with that small group of models and I got them booked over and over and over again then I just built it from there” said Styles.

Styles has not built Styles Entertainment into a force all alone. While the cliché is that behind every strong man is a strong woman Styles manages to spurn tradition and not have his strong woman standing beside him instead of behind him. Michelle V decided to leave her job as an accountant at the end of 2005 to help Styles relaunch the agency. V has been instrumental principal in helping build Angel Lola Luv’s career. V has also helped Angel Lola Luv transition from urban model and video vixen into a burgeoning rap recording artist.

Styles has managed to expand the capabilities of his agency. He has grown and evolved from just a model and talent management agency to a full service agency that is capable of servicing any type of model or actor due to the experienced personnel that is housed in each of the talent specific divisions. Some of the divisions include: Styles Entertainment Model and Talent Agency, Style Elite Model and Talent Agency which was created by Michelle V for models and actors. Style Elite is able to service commercial models, fashion models, glamour models, babies/teens/young adults, plus size and runway models. Divisions that cater specifically to actors include voice division, reality television, fitness division and a major division that focuses primarily on celebrities.

The Styles Entertainment team has taken pain staking measures to create various divisions to create opportunities for these different talent types by cultivating different relationships across the business spectrum. Some of the clients that Styles Entertainment has worked with include but are not limited to: G-Unit, Verizon, BET Rip the Runway, Cosmopolitan, Adidas, Black Men’s Magazine, and Smooth Magazine just to mane a few.. Even though Styles Entertainment has built up an impressive list of business relationships the job of cultivating new relationships and building rapports with people is never over.

“That is the thing about being an agent or manager is that when actors and models are sleeping or resting we are up working” says Styles. If you consider where Mike Styles started as a photographer in 2001 as a photographer to where he is with his partner Michelle V it is clear that Mike Styles and everyone associated with Styles Entertainment is a bunch of insomniacs. In a relatively short time Styles Entertainment has managed to house one of the most popular models in history, have a plethora of his clients featured prominently in various print and online publications and featured all over television.

Styles Entertainment looks to grow the agency and all of the respective divisions by creating long term business relationships with its various existing clients as well as seeking out new business opportunities which will in turn create new opportunities for models. It is also the goal of Styles Entertainment to cultivate enough new and recurring business in order to expand its reach into other prominent markets across the country like New York or Atlanta.

“We are definitely looking for new faces. I am definitely looking forward to working with the talented new faces that will become stars within the agency” says Michelle V. Styles encourages all potential principals that are interested in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry to come into his office and attempt to pursue their professional aspirations.

“Come on in and let us look at you” says Styles. “ Not everyone that comes in is guaranteed to be chosen but you never k now we have a lot of different division so you do not know where you are going to fit until you come in” says Styles.

In addition to his open door policy when scouting for new talent he also provides a unique service in regards to all prospects, “ I will tell anybody who comes in to see me what is wrong with them or what they have to do to get better” says Styles. “ Some people may need to get their hair done, their teeth fixed, join a gym or update their look when you leave my office you will know what you need to do in order to be better.

With a strong track record of previous achievements, and a clear direction on where the agency is headed for the future to say that Styles Entertainment and its burgeoning offspring talent enterprises are going to be a force is a gross understatement. Styles Entertainment is in the business of making models it is clear that the models that Styles Entertainment makes becomes stars and while they may have only been here for a while what we are seeing is only the beginning. Witness the growth.

Potomac Conservancy Books 8 Style Elite Promotional Models

Potomac Conservancy hired Style Elite Modeling & Talent Agency team of promotional / commercial models to help raised money for their programs. 8 of the Style Elite models where assigned to be at several Wholes Food locations where they helped raised money for Potomac Conservancy.

Potomac Conservancy is a company that believes there is merit in preserving open space, maintaining habitat for wild animals, keeping the fields in agricultural use, and providing the public with uncluttered views of the mountain ridges lying parallel to South Branch Mountain."

Potomac Conservancy was very please with the Style Elite Modeling & Talent Agency team. Good work Brittany, Lauren, Jamila, Yvette, Chanel, Kanise, Arielle, Tammie and Alexandra. To learn more about Potomac Conservancy or to learn how you can help visit http://www.potomac.org/.

NEWS: BET Hip Hop Awards Nominees

The nominees are out for the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards. This celebration of "urban music artists at the top of their game" will take place October 17 in Atlanta with a debut broadcast scheduled for October 17 at 8pm ET/PT. Comedian Katt Williams will host and performers include Nelly, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Common.
T.I. leads all Hip Hop Awards nominees with nine nods, while Lil Wayne is up for seven awards and Kanye West for six Hip Hoppies. The other multiple nominees are Common, Jay-Z, Ludacris, 50 Cent, Diddy and UGK. Also, KRS-One will (deservedly) receive the "I Am Hip Hop" Icon Award.

Nominees for Video Director of the Year are:
Bryan Barber
Benny Boom
F. Gary Gray
Chris Robinson
Hype Williams

Nominees for Best Hip-Hop video are:
50 Cent "I Get Money" (STYLE ELITE MODELING & TALENT AGENCY HAS 6 MODELS IN THIS MUSIC VIDEO!)
Chamillioinaire f/ Slick Rick "Hip Hop Police" (directed by Marc Klasfeld)
Common"The People" (directed by Neon)
Ludacris f/ Mary J. Blige "Runaway Love" (directed by Jesse Terrero)
UGK f/ Outkast "International Players Anthem" (directed by Bryan Barber)
Kanye West "Stronger" (directed by Hype Williams)
Stay with us through the jump for a full nominee list...
Nominees for the 2007 BET Hip-Hop Awards

BEST HIP-HOP VIDEO
50 Cent "I Get Money"
Chamillioinaire f/ Slick Rick "Hip Hop Police"
Common "The People"
Ludacris f/ Mary J. Blige "Runaway Love"
UGK f/ Outkast "International Players Anthem"
Kanye West "Stronger"

STYLE ELITE MODEL LAUREN ASIA LANDS SOURCE MAGAZINE FASHION EDITORIAL SHOOT

Style Elite Model Lauren Asia lands a Fashion Editorial Shoot with SOURCE MAGAZINE. Agent/Manager Mike Styles received a call from SOURCE MAGAZINE that they where looking for models for a Summer Issue Fashion Editoral Shoot right away. Style Elite Agent Mike Styles sent over 50 different images of 50 different models from the agency and Lauren Asia landed the deal. Lauren's photoshoot call time was this past Sunday May 3rd in NYC at 8am. Style Elite Agent Mike Styles and Lauren Asia traveled to NYC to be on set for her shoot. The shoot was shot in an exclusive location in Mahattan with a Celebrity Photographer, Wardrobe-Stylist, Make-up, Hair-Stylist, Production crew, set staff and much more... Lauren shot in two different scenes. The shoot ended at 7pm. The shoot will have a 6 page layout due to release in June 2009. Look out for Lauren Asia. Good work Lauren.

STYLE ELITE MODEL SETH GETS SECOND AUDITION FOR BYE BYE BIRDY MUSICAL PLAY

STYLE ELITE MODEL SETH GETS SECOND AUDITION FOR "BYE BYE BIRDY"MUSICAL PLAY. STAY TUNE FOR THE RESULTS.

SHY MAGAZINE REPORTS - RAMATU BARRY DMV’s Elite Model

SHY MAGAZINE REPORTS - Style Elite Model Ramatu Barry is DMV’s Elite Model

SHY MAGAZINE REPORTS. Watch out, Tyra. Ramatu Barry, 23, has her sights set on the top of the fashion and modeling industry. Born in Sierra Leone, Ramatu came to the Maryland area when she was 11 years old. When she was 16, a model search came to town and her godmother persuaded the West African beauty to give it a try. As a result, she booked her very first campaign, putting her face on billboards all over the U.S.

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Locally, you may have seen her in such events, like Capitol Catwalk and Fashion Fights Poverty. If you didn’t get out to those, you might have seen her on your television walking in BET’s Rip the Runway special.
Aside from modeling, she is also a sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue. Her clients include some of our favorite area party promoters, like Dave & Ray and Omari Ware of The Standard, Randy Jackson from American Idol and Juan Dixon. She’s about to leave the DMV to move to the Big Apple so she can be closer to more modeling jobs. There, she also plans to earn a degree for a career in fashion buying. See the rest her interview at www.shymagazine.com.

Story by Jan F. Lee
Shy Magazine Staff Writer/Journalist