Martine Schouten Hoogendijk

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With Fresh Models

Height - 177

Bust - 81

Waist - 61

Hips -90

Eyes - Green

Hair - Brown

Marie Claire Russia, September 2011

The Nature of Things

Model: Martine Schouten Hoogendijk

Photographer: Sune Czajkowski

Styling: Alena Isaeva

fashionising.com

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from freshmm

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from jonathanwaiter

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joostvanderneut.blogspot.com

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NY F/W 10

models.com

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Claes Iversen F/W 10 Amsterdam

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new york model management

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Amica April 2011

Editorial: Casting D’Management Group

Photographer: Matteo Montanari / Motif Management

Stylist: Claudia Carretti

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcplnz_ma...-paris_creation

Martine @ Nathalie Paris

Makes sense. A short movie portraying Martine, taken in Paris, where she talks about modeling and her favorite things in life. From places she likes to food she loves, from what fashion means to her to the last thing she does before going to bed. It makes a lot of topics but simply reveals a few charming details without unveiling everything, keeping the mystery alive while her career takes off. The perfect balance between all the little things that allow us to know more about her personality and the gallery of expressions it shows makes the whole portrait even more relevant. Made sense, then to have it as an exclusive preview today. Especially when another rising star from Nathalie/New York Models, also from the Netherlands, is featured on Vogue Italia's new faces section a few days earlier. Dutch invasion or smart management and good timing ?

That's precisly what captures our attention at the moment. Besides how lovely it is to learn that Martine loves cheese as much as we do, what seems to be the foreword of her career-plan is worth taking a closer look. Fourth Dutch young lady signed with New York Models and ready for success, third one also signed with Nathalie, all of them sharing a certain look that tells a bit more on the current aesthetics set as these two agencies' trademark. Peculiar yet "easy to understand", meaning they effortlessly stand out from the crowd while not likely to induce dramatic changes in perception of beauty. Quite a nice concept we could translate as "unique and universal" as, far from reaching only a tiny niche within the whole fashion world, all of Martina's three agency-mates -- Patricia, Ylonka and Melissa -- got a remarkable response from New York to Paris.

Wether they come from the same mold or not is another question. And allows us to push that concept a little further than what initially seemed to be its boundaries. Today's modeling seems to move on (or go back) to striking individuals. Girls who tell you a story as soon as they enter the casting-room. Girls who wear the clothes (and not the other way around) but don't necessarily outshine a collection by some irrelevant star qualities. To give a proper answer to the question, if they all definitely belong to the same "wave", each has a distinctive look and vibe -- make sure you've seen both Martine's and Melissa's videos by the way. Actually, it's especially because of the difference that they belongs to that very same wave, which seems to stand for a certain idea of beauty rather than a definite beauty type. It's a bit tricky, it's a bit conceptual and maybe we push it too far on the intellectual way (instead of keeping the same light-hearted mood as Martine in her interview). But it would be really difficult for us not to celebrate a certain ideal of scouting and the precious management that goes hand in hand with it.