These unusual times are totally changing the face of every industry and sadly modelling, beauty and fashion are not exempt from this.
Cheryl Hughes
My love affair with modelling started when I was six years old when a lady called Pat Burke who owned a children's fashion shop in Australia asked my mother if I could model some clothes in a seasonal fashion show. My mum said yes and instantly my total love for modelling began and still lasts to this day. Looking back over the years I enjoyed achieving every milestone. I started my working life as a school teacher but I was head hunted by the June Dally Watkins School of Deportment & Grooming in Australia to teach for them and model for their agency. Woo hoo, already I was taking the first step in my ‘Life Plan’ direction!
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I absolutely adored it and after some years the opportunity came for me to start my own model training academy & agency in Brisbane. This career found me working for June Dally in Hong Kong, Barbizon in New York, John Robert Powers in San Francisco and The London Academy of Modelling in Bond Street which I ran for two years until it closed due to huge rental increases by the Bond Street Traders Association in the early 1980's. I was then offered the job of starting and managing a Classic Division for International Model Agency in London's West End. This led me to observing a gap in the market for larger sized models and so I created Hughes Models to fill the void. It was the birth of the first model agency worldwide to specialise in plus size models and the beginning of a totally new trend in the world of
