{"id":595995,"date":"2023-10-30T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T05:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ivan-bart-former-president-of-img-models-dies-at-60\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T05:40:03","slug":"ivan-bart-former-president-of-img-models-dies-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ivan-bart-former-president-of-img-models-dies-at-60\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ivan Bart, Former President of IMG Models, Dies at 60"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Ivan Bart, the former president of IMG Models who helped launch the modeling careers of the likes of Lauren Hutton, Carolyn Murphy, Stephanie Seymour and Gigi and Bella Hadid, died over the weekend following a short illness. He was 60.<\/p>\n

\n The news<\/a> was posted on his official Instagram account with a black-and-white photo of Bart. A caption on the photo reads, \u201cOur world has lost one of the greats. Ivan Bart, 1963-2023.\u201d No other details were immedia<\/a>tely available.<\/p>\n

\n He was named president of the agency in 2014, after it merged with WME. Under Bart\u2019s leadership, IMG Models also built the careers of Hailey Bieber, Alton Mason, Wisdom Kaye and others.<\/p>\n

\n Throughout his career, Bart championed diverse casting and inclusion and is credited with breaking down barriers for models including Alek Wek, Hari Nef, Precious Lee, Zach Miko, Quannah Chasinghorse and Paloma Elsesser.<\/p>\n

\n He also was a supporter of plus-size models. In 2014, after Ford Models closed its plus-size division, IMG signed Ashley Graham and other plus-size models who had been dropped by Ford. Earlier this year, three of the agency\u2019s plus-size models \u2014 Jill Kortleve, Lee and Elsesser \u2014\u00a0graced the April 2023 cover of British Vogue.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n Fashion designers (including Zac Posen and Christian Cowan), models (Shanina Shaik, Karen Elson), stylists and celebrity makeup artists and hairstylists were among those posting condolences on Bart\u2019s Instagram page, many of them in shock at the news. \u201cHeartbreaking,\u201d wrote makeup artist Pat McGrath. \u201cLove you Ivan,\u201d posted Bieber. \u201cI love you Ivan. Have a gentle rest \u2014\u00a0 you beautiful, tenacious, groundbreaking soul. Our hearts are breaking over and over,\u201d wrote Elsesser. Added Rachel Zoe, \u201cI have known and loved Ivan since the day I started in the industry. We have lost the best of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n In a statement, Endeavor president and COO Mark Shapiro called Bart \u201ca trailblazer in the fashion industry.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n \u201cDuring the course of three decades at IMG Models, Ivan quite literally changed the shape and face of the modeling industry from within,\u201d Shapiro shared. \u201cHis relentless pursuit for diversity and inclusion challenged fashion\u2019s gatekeepers and created household names whose omnipresence has inspired generations. I literally sat beside him at a table with the former management team at Victoria\u2019s Secret while he politely argued that they had to change their annual runway television special and diversify their models \u2014 size, age, race, background. He was the voice before there was a voice. He was courageous. He saw beauty in all its forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Shapiro also credited Bart for recognizing early on the power of social media in giving a voice to models and effecting social change. He also noted that Bart was behind the company\u2019s decision to acquire The Wall Group, which represents makeup artists, stylists, manicurists and hairstylists and called Bart\u2019s instincts \u201cprescient.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Bart, who joined IMG in 1994, led global relaunch of the IMG Models\u2019 men\u2019s board in 2012, followed by the launch of the Sydney office. In 2017, Bart oversaw the opening of the Los Angeles office, which represents stars who bridge the worlds of fashion and Hollywood, including Diana Silvers, Lori Harvey, Maddie Ziegler and Millie Bobby Brown. Today, the company operates in New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Milan and Sydney.<\/p>\n

\n Four years after being named president of IMG Models, Bart was promoted to add oversight of all of IMG\u2019s global fashion events, including its fashion weeks.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI feel very privileged to have worked the last couple years pushing our message of inclusivity, and finding new and exciting talent,\u201d Bart told\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u00a0in 2018 of his then-new role. \u201cWhy not bring that to a bigger platform?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n In March, Bart left his post as president to serve as senior adviser. That change was part of a reorganization at parent company Endeavor.<\/p>\n

\n Bart, who lived in Brooklyn, New York, was named one of Business of Fashion\u2019s 500 shaping the global fashion industry and sat on the boards of the Fashion Institute of Technology<\/a> and the Neuberger Museum of Art. He is survived by his husband, cinematographer Grant Greenberg.<\/p>\n

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