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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nIMG isn't the only modeling agency pushing for greater diversity in the fashion industry. A new agency out of London, called Anti-Agency, is taking the idea of what it means to be a professional model and turning it on its head by placing personal style and personality above thinness and traditional good looks.\n\nAlthough the agency was established only nine months ago, its models have already worked with major brands like Uniqlo, Dr. Martens, and Urban Outfitters and walked in runway shows for Margiela, Giles, and Meadham Kirchoff. According to Anti-Agency's website, \"The agency is for people who could've been models and decided not to, for people who are too cool to be models and people with real lives on the verge of exploding in music, fashion, art, illustration &amp;amp; creative industries etc.\" And in an interview with The Daily Beast, Anti-Agency co-founder Pandora Lennard insists their models \u2014 discovered through \"hours of Facebook stalking and girl crushes\" \u2014 are more than just pretty faces and that the agency signs them based on their \"individual style.\" Anti-Agency's roster includes men and women with tattoos, piercings, and rainbow-colored hair, and although their models are still, for the most part, quite thin, m-Lennard insists, \"We don't have requirements for size or height.\"\"We also don't do portfolios or 'books,'\" Lennard says. \"For us, models should get booked based on their personality, not based on a load of pictures of them dressed up in different ways\u2026 We have to remind people that when we send our girls and boys to castings that they're real people, not just clotheshorses! They might look beautiful and be very cool, but they definitely don't take any shit!\"RELATED:\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nStop Dressing For Your BodyModeling Agency Now Signing Models Regardless of Size, Race, or AgeDo you have a question for Cosmopolitan.com's Style Editor, Charles Manning? Submit it here or tweet him @charlesemanning. Happy dressing!Follow Charles on Twitter.     Photo Credit: Anti-Agency    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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