In Ten

Click on the numbers for a handful of tasty facts about fashion’s favourite model agency

Sarah Doukas founded Storm back in 1987 – her first office was in her house. A year later she signed Kate Moss.

Kate Moss has been on the cover of British Vogue a record 25 times – that’s twice as many times as anyone else.

Sarah came up with the name by looking up ‘tempest’ in a thesaurus and deciding that Storm did the trick perfectly. Amazingly, The Tempest is also a Shakespeare play featuring a beautiful girl called Miranda – Storm’s first-ever model was called Miranda (Morton).

Two models share the title of Storm’s longest-serving model: Kate Moss and Carla Bruni (the wife of the French President no less).

Girls outnumber boys at Storm by 20:7. In other words, 35% of Storm’s models are boys.

South London girl Jourdan Dunn was spotted in Primark in 2005. She became the first black British woman to appear on the cover of Italian Vogue in July 2008.

Lily Cole, who was discovered in Covent Garden, is now one of the most successful models in the world. She’s also an actor: she made her debut last year in the remake of St Trinian’s, and will be in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Sally Potter’s Rage next year.

Storm’s MySpace profile – myspace.com/stormmodels – is home to the agency’s personal safety initiative. Check out how to avoid unscrupulous adults posing as bogus modelling agents.

Storm discovered Alys Hale at the V Festival four years ago – this multitalented model is also the lead singer with The Males and is going to Oxford University this autumn.

We are celebrating our 21st birthday this year. Woo-hoo!