I took Denise'™s course 30 years ago. Denise has fantastic energy, connections, and understands what it takes to be a successful model. I still use much of what I learned about marketing, staging, framing, posing, lighting, and customer skills today in graphic arts. I also used techniques working in television and film. I went to MSU after working for Denise. I had an advantage when I took courses because I had many years of marketing under my belt between her course, a job at a high-end boutique (Gantos), working at AnDiamo, and a newspaper route I had for years.
Denise is very cool, tenacious, a good friend, giving, keeps up on networking, and is realistic. As a model, you are ultimately there to sell a product. You are showing that product in it's best light. Many places will show you Âœhow to look and moveÂ, but have no clue how to sell (not even taught at college). I had taken modelling courses before meeting Denise at a place called Mannequin. I learned posing, walking, etc., but Mannequin did not teach vital marketing skills, or place models in jobs immediately. With Denise we were a tight-knit group of girls looking out for each other.
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