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PULSE MANAGEMENT: Innovative Model Management on the Cutting Edge
ModelWatch profiles the San Diego-based modeling agency that thrives on sheer beauty, personality and talent.
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By Jed Medina & Karen Essex
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Seldom do we visit a website that left us in awe- not just for the stunning imagery it presents but for the simple yet innovative way that it explains itself. If you happen to visit PulseManagement.com, then you will realize just how important it treats its audience. The mere quality of the website is more than enough to convince anyone of the agency's seriousness and zeal as one of the frontrunners in the modeling industry.
But there is more. Pulse Management happens to be the brainchild of Stacey Eastman, one of the industry's most prominent and prolific agent/scout. People in the know described Eastman as a no-nonsense individual who invest his time with his models, maintains close relationships with agencies around the world and provide the leadership and inspiration to his thriving modeling agency.
As the Pulse site declared: "Pulse was created as a management firm, born of twenty years of experience. Wherever you look - Milan, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, our footprints are there."
More than a statement of fact, Pulse simply declared what it's all about and what it is capable of accomplishing.
ModelWatch is especially proud to bring Pulse Management to our viewers, as its latest agency on spotlight.
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THE MODELWATCH INTERVIEW WITH STACEY EASTMAN: President and Owner, Pulse Management
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MW: I guess you have heard of this before, regarding the reaction of people on the Pulse website. Stunning, we should say, for lack of a better word! Tell us, how did you arrive at the concept for the Pulse agency website? Any particular inspiration?
SE: Yes, actually. I have always been heavily involved in extreme sports- surfing, hang gliding, snowboarding, basically anything I can do to check my 'PULSE' after a major rush.
Fashion and marketing mixed with global jet setting and striking the next hot deal reminded me a lot of that life! Hence, Pulse Management was born!
MW: We have heard of this term before 'complete Model Management Company', how does this apply to Pulse?
SE: I left art school early to dive head first into the European industry. I was fortunate to have worked with some of the best who's who of fashion from designers to agents, photographers, make-up artists, producers and so on. |
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We also saw a lot of crap, though! So I decided to hang up my hat booking and shooting and to literally take personal care of a select few that have the maximum capabilities.
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| _Stacey Eastman, on a trip to Maui, in the Hawaiian islands, making sure that there's adrenaline rush in everything he do. |
To make sure the entire world does what it says it's going to for them. We handle our client from start to finish and beyond!
I have flown around the world with a client and her mom simply because they were new and didn't want to be alone. We are a conduit for the individual, found either by ourselves or coming to us via our reputation, to the global power players. We are humble yet confident, small yet globally recognized. Basically we take care of the client from start to finish and make sure the world does as well.
MW: People have mentioned the fact that you started out in another city (is it Salt Lake City?), that your change of location is a strategic response to the growth of the agency, could you enlighten us on this issue? Perhaps, we could also learn more of the agency's history?
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| _The sunset at Pulse Management's office in San Diego. We'll let the picture speak for itself... |
SE: As said before, started in Europe. From there to NYC, LA, then SLC. Why SLC? My brother found huge amounts of film productions there due to amazing locations and the Sundance Film Festival. So he handled film and I found some of the most amazing faces on earth there! After all this is where I met my wife.
Not to mention it is a killer outdoor playground! Slickest snow on earth and the hang gliding! We moved back to southern Cali because the surf (little hard to do in SLC) and to be close to all of my family. Our business has always had a uniqueness about it, not to mention global staying power due to our past travels and experiences. But we have been blessed! After retuning home to San Diego, we have grown the company into Arizona, Las Vegas, and Portland. Next Seattle, Hawaiian Islands!...who knows? The world! Yes to expand beyond our wildest dreams. We also have now partnerships in NYC, Paris, Milan and London.
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MW: For the past 20 years of representing models and dealing with the Fashion industry, what would you consider some of the most lasting impressions you have of models, modeling and fashion in general?
SE: For sure is seeing what this industry can and has done for so many hopefuls. I have seen kids have more than their dreams come true! I have seen them raise their GPA and be able to afford to get into some of the best higher learning institutions in the world. Speak four to five different languages. See other cultures and customs they would have never been able to see in ten lifetimes.
MW: Describe your 'model ideal' what should she/he look like? On a related question, what qualities are essential before you take in a model?
SE: There is no ideal look. You have to be creative to see it. Number one quality for us is personality. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is more critical.
MW: In particular, what are the qualities you look for a male model?
SE: I don't know how to tell you. When I feel it I feel it. Sometimes I am wrong but not often. It is either a curse or a blessing. PERSONALITY again. No rock stars!
MW: On a more personal note, what's your definition of fashion? What is it all about? How do you describe your 'personal style'?
SE: Whatever someone is comfortable in, just make it slam. It should always speak! FASHION SPEAKS!
My own personal?...wow dude. I am a serious chameleon. I will go from the boots country Ralph Lauren to Armani, Hugo Boss to the surfer Hurley & Vans all in one day. It's what you feel and no one should be able to tell you otherwise. So Joan Rivers, what's up?
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DAN KILPATRICK: Rockin the Scene!
Pulse Management's latest sensation is on the Details December 2003 issue, yeah, he's that guy on the frontpage!
Says Pulse Management President, Stacey Eastman: "Hold up! We must give it up for a kid named Dan Kilpatrick. Found him five months ago working around ASU in a campus record store (no, not CDs). This kid is the next hottest thing. Steven Misel just shot for Italian Vogue. He just shot December's issue of Details featuring Tom Cruise. He is booked for Dior in Paris, Jill Sander, Prada, and on hold for Calvin Klein. Did Marc Jacobs show.
Heck! he did nine out of the fifteen men's shows last season in NYC! More than any veteran out there. He's off to London, Paris, Italy and then to return to NYC for this next men's fashion season.
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Continued: Eastman talks about the models on his roster now making waves... |
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