Fabienne Martin Founder & Director
1978 - 1998
Fabienne Martin founds FAM MODEL MANAGEMENT.
On the fringe of those times’ standards, she promotes a new definition of beauty.
Ahn Duong, Amira Casar, Anna Karina K, Arielle Burgelin, Audrey Matson, Carrie Ottis, Dovanna Pagovski, Famke Janssen, Honor Fraser, Isabelle Weingarten, Kim Williams, Daniel de la Falaise, Lucy Ferry, Rosemary Mc Grotha, Sasha Robertson, Sofia Coppola, Susie Bick, Veronika Webb, Victoria Guiness, only to mention a few, with whom she signs international campaigns such as:
CACHAREL, CALVIN KLEIN, COMME DES GARÇONS, HELENA RUBINSTEIN, LANCASTER, DONNA KARAN, JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER, MAUBOUSSIN, RALPH LAUREN, YVES SAINT-LAURENT PARFUMS,YOHJI YAMAMOTO.
1980
She produces the FAM New Year poster by photographer Steve Hiett.
1984
She’s literary agent for Edward Lachman’s Chausses-Trappes photo roman, published by EDITIONS DE MINUIT, preface by Alain Robbes-Grillet.
She produces the FAM calendar, photographed by Deborah Turbeville.
Veronika Webb is photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the COMME DES GARÇONS catalogue.
1985
She produces the Stop Acid Rain poster, by photographer Peter Lindbergh. All proceeds went to the ‘Tomorrow’ Foundation of KATHERINE HAMNET for the benefit of maltreated children.
Isabelle Pasco is photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the COMME DES GARÇONS catalogue.
Sasha Robertson is photographed by Paolo Roversi for the YOHJI YAMAMOTO catalogue, art direction Marc Ascoli.
Victoria Lockwood is photographed by Paolo Roversi for the COMME DES GARÇONS catalogue.
Arielle Burgelin and Lucy Cunningham are photographed by Max Vadukul for the YOHJI YAMAMOTO catalogue, art direction Marc Ascoli.
Paula Spiaggia is photographed by William Klein for the first NAF NAF campaign.
The FAM retrospective at the CANON Gallery, Paris, with the participation of photographers as:
Bettina Rheims, Bruce Weber, David Seidner, Deborah Turbeville, Elisabeth Lennard, Erica Lennard, Fabrizio Ferri, Frank Horvat, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, Marie-Laure de Decker, Max Vadukul, Oliviero Toscani, Paolo Roversi, Peter Lindbergh, Sarah Moon, Steven Meisel, William Klein, Wim Wenders.
1986
She produces the Winnie Mandela TIME magazine collage by the artist Michel Sumpf.
Alison Cohn is photographed by Koto Bolofo for the YOHJI YAMAMOTO catalogue, art direction Marc Ascoli.
1987
She produces the FAM agency catalogue photographed by Koto Bolofo, art direction by Benita Raphan who wins 1st prize in the annual Prix des Directeurs Artistiques.
1988
She produces the FAM exhibition Femmes et Fleurs, photography by Jean-François Lepage, at the COMPTOIR DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Paris. This same exhibition inaugurates the first international Women’s Day celebration on March 8th at the FRENCH INSTITUTE in Warsaw, Poland.
Lucy Ferry is photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe for the cover of his book Some Women.
1988-1990
Fabienne Martin creates the management agency ARTISTS.
ARTISTS co-produces the movie Orlando Sei by Dante Majorana, subtitles by Bernard Eisenchitz.
ARTISTS representing actress Johanna Ter-Steege (who starred in the Philippe Garrel film J’entends plus la guitare, Lion D’or at the Venice film festival 1991), collaborates with Stanley Kubrick and Jan Harlan on a Warner Brothers film project Little War Lies.
1993
She launches the American edition of Do or Die, photographs by Martine Barrat, forward by Martin Scorcese, cover text by Gordon Parks, followed by a travelling exhibition in Germany of Martine Barrat’s Harlem works sponsored by MERIAN/LEICA.
1996
She begins working with Iain Watson and Sheldon Heitner on the ongoing Shifting Forms medieval Japanese esthetics project, model Mari Onodera.
1998
Helmut Newton photographs the DANEMANN cigars' calendar with 12 FAM models.
1998-2001
After FAM, she becomes Artistic director of the international model agency NEXT.
1999
She edits and launches the first NEXT catalogue, art direction Marc Atlan, with an exhibition of photographs at MARION DE BEAUPRE gallery in Paris.
Ali Mahdavi shoots a short feature film 13 rue Washington, inspired by the FAM spirit.
2003
Fabienne Martin founds EFFIGIES.
