All the male model agencies have a purpose of advertising and performing other kinds of activities to find available models and further jobs for them. Ford agency - or Ford Models Inc. - is a well-known male modeling agency founded in 1964 by Eileen and Jerry Ford. These people are considered to have created a new kind of the global fashion industry based on beauty. Eileen and Jerry started the business in the United States and went on creating one of the world's most respected and recognized male model agencies. The important role in this major agency was played by bedeviled and befriended fashion photographers. They were considered to shape the art of high fashion photography in the last half of the 20th century. It's worth admitting that Ford has supplied lots of the world's most respected and professional photographers with an outstanding talent. Eileen was responsible for marketing and fierce discipline while Jerry Ford began to represent the world's top models. Therefore Eileen Ford maintains her vigilance over the fashion industry. Jerry Ford's business acumen is known to be responsible for creating all the systems which are recognized as the standard of the fashion industry today. As a matter of fact, Ford agency was the first institution and nowadays remains one of the few male model agencies to pay its models at the end of every week not waiting for the payments from its clients. In this way the agency helps its models to get established. Jerry Ford which is involved with the main contract negotiations today. He is now not only the head of the Ford Models Inc., but also the respected President of the MMC (the United Nations of the modelling industry). Ford agency has its main headquarters in the New York City. Besides, there are many offices in Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, Scottsdale, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and San Paolo. In 1999 Ford expanded into the Chicago high fashion market. Ford agency is known to belong not only to the famous male model agencies. Its divisions also include women, sports, celebrity, commercial print, classic, fit, 12 plus, teen and children, music and talent management. Ford model agency has existed for more than 50 years and it still remains one of the most respected fashion industry leaders. It is known to provide the most up-to-date names and addresses of the licensed talent agencies, producers, managers, ass well as different production companies. The agency makes all the necessary contacts and hold negotiations with other agencies and photographers, booking and billing for the models' jobs and as a result - paying the models for the time spent. It signs contracts with the most talented models. Such contracts usually vary in length depending on the model's previous experience and fashion modeling industry status. Ford agency is the most recognized male model agencies in the history of fashion modelling. It represents a wide range of models including supermodels like Stephanie Seymour and new hot faces like Brazilian beauty Liliane.