Meet Joan Okorodudu - A Philanthropist

Africa’s Next Super Model. Remarked as one of the world’s most outstanding modeling events, Africa’s Next Super Model is Africa’s prestigious modeling competition reality show dedicated to scouting Africa’s finest talent in the modeling industry with the goal being to mold Africa’s raw modeling talents into world-class professional supermodels.

Joan Okorodudu, CEO of Isis Models said that Africa’s Next Super Model (ANSM) was conceptualized from Nigeria’s Next Super Model (NNSM) with a recorded history of having produced the show for the past 15 years. “The NNSM show has been successfully used to groom models from scouting all the way to the international platforms resulting in several black models representing Africa on the world map.

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The superlative African modeling and fashion icon who is Nigeria’s most traveled fashion and modeling entrepreneur said her focus was to raise more young talents across Africa and launch them into the international modeling space

Okorodudu has booked African models directly with top brands with Omowunmi Shodeko one of Nigeria’s Next Super Model discovery closed the iconic show Louis Vuitton exclusively last season and continues to work with the brand, booked Model Alek with Burberry, Victoria Daropale, Ngozi Anene, and Anyiel directly with Prada and so many other brands.

The founder of Nigeria’s Next Super Model Reality Show, Okorodudu notes that she is committed to finding and exposing the best African modeling talents from anywhere in Africa. 

With the highest number of African working models in the Diasporas and over 23 Models on Models.com, Isis Models is Africa’s leading modeling agency. Isis Models has so far the highest number of African modeling agencies in Africa. Joan Okorodudu the CEO of Isis models continues to book models directly out of Africa, some of those Models are Ngozi Anene, Victoria Daropale, both she booked for Prada directly, and Omowunmi Shodeko who closed Louis Vuitton deal last season.

Her models continually are seen on the runway for top designers like Louis Vuitton, Prada, Emilio Pucci, Dior, Fendi, Valentino, Ellie Saab, Jill Sanders, Burberry, Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham, and Schiaparelli, an haute couture house created by avant-garde Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli in 1927, and moving towards luxury Ready-to-wear after being bought in 2007 by Diego Della Valle. 

The Isis Models boss, Joan Okorodudu recently placed plus-size models in Europe and worked tirelessly to see the first plus-size African-based model Apollo Yom debut for Valentino with a total of four Isis models in the lineup of Valentino. In 2019 Isis models had 4 models in Valentino which is a remarkable feat. In the recently concluded Paris Haute Couture, Isis Models were very visible with models doing some of the biggest shows. 

Focused on placing African models on the world super stage, Isis Models have been registered with a physical presence in Johannesburg since 2008, in Lagos 2007, in Nairobi 2019. In addition, Isis Models has also been registered officially in the US since 2010 and has booked models in New York during fashion week