The Agency
HotMales Model Management is a private representation house. We have ten gentlemen on the roster, three principals in the office, and one landline. Inquiries are reviewed personally. The waiting room is by appointment.
Roxanne “Roxy” Brandywine
Founder & Creative Director
A Letter from the Founder
Darling.
When I left the editorial world in 2010 — after thirty years dressing the most extraordinary women on this planet — I told the trades that I was retiring. I had every intention of meaning it. I have a house in Provence. I have a husband who is, on balance, a pleasure. I had, briefly, a parrot.
What pulled me back was a simple question, asked at a dinner in the Cotswolds by a woman whose name I still won’t print. She said: “Roxy, why is there no agency for men that treats them the way you treated us?” I gave her some perfectly polite nonsense about market forces. I went home. I did not sleep. I founded HotMales the following spring.
In the years since, I have come to believe — quietly, decisively, and against the prevailing tide — that the male modeling industry has been doing it backwards. The major houses think of their men as accessories: tall things to stand near handbags. We do not. We think of our men the way I once thought of the women I represented. We develop them. We sit with them. We ask them what they want their work to mean. We place them, with deliberation, in the rooms where they will be most fully seen.
I will be honest with you. We are not for everyone. We do not maintain an open call. We do not respond to inquiries that arrive with the wrong tone, and you will know what I mean by that. We have, on three separate occasions in the past year, referred correspondence to counsel. We will do so again, with the same patience, the same Pinot, and the same lack of apology.
If you are reading this, however, and you have a sense — even a small one — that the right gentleman in the right room could shape your next chapter, then I would very much like to hear from you. Maggie reviews everything first. I review what Maggie passes on. We move slowly, on purpose.
Welcome to the agency.
— Roxy
Manhattan · Provence · By Appointment
Our Method
01 — Development
We do not sign men we are unwilling to develop. Each gentleman receives an initial sitting with our Director of Talent Development, a custom-prepared portfolio, and a structured one-year arc toward the kind of representation we believe suits them best. The agency invests, on average, the first eighteen months before a single engagement is taken.
02 — Placement
We do not maintain a public booking calendar, and we do not advertise availability. Patrons inquire through the office; the office responds; the model is briefed only after the engagement has been confirmed. Discretion is not a tier of service. It is the standing posture of the agency.
03 — Aftercare
Every engagement is followed by a private post-engagement note from the agency to the patron, an after-action review with the model, and — where the patron has consented — an open file for the future. We are interested in long relationships. We are not interested in volume.
A Brief History
Roxanne Brandywine joins the editorial floor at a Manhattan house she will not name in print. She is twenty-three. She is told, on her first day, to fetch coffee. She does not.
Now in Milan, Ms. Brandywine takes over the women’s editorial program at a heritage Italian agency. Over six years she develops a roster that will, by 2002, feature on the cover of every major title in print.
Ms. Brandywine announces her retirement from the editorial world. She is fifty-two. She gives the trades a graceful interview. She means it for approximately seven months.
HotMales Model Management is founded out of a small office on the Upper East Side, with three desks and one landline. The first roster numbers four men. Two of them are still on the books.
Henrik Holm joins as Director of Talent Development. The roster expands, deliberately, to seven. Inquiries for the year exceed available representation by a factor of eleven. The waiting list is closed.
The current roster of ten is established. The agency begins quietly inviting select patrons to its inaugural “portfolio patronage” program — a private arrangement for those who wish to follow a gentleman’s development on an ongoing basis.
The Office
We are three principals, one administrator, and a ten-man roster. The office is closed to the public.
Margaret “Maggie” Voss
Director of Client Relations
Maggie joined the agency in 2014 from a thirty-year career in luxury hospitality, where she most recently oversaw private programs at a Mayfair members’ club. She is the first point of contact for new patrons and the author of our Discretion Policy. She does not return calls before eleven.
Henrik Holm
Director of Talent Development
Henrik joined HotMales in 2018 from the Oslo office of a heritage Scandinavian agency. He scouts and develops the roster, conducts every initial sitting personally, and is, by his own account, “not a warm man, but a fair one.” He is responsible for the introduction of Valentino Reyes to the agency, and the early career arcs of three others.
Aubrey Kim
Office Administrator
Aubrey began with the agency in 2022 as a summer intern and has, by mutual agreement, never left. She maintains the calendar, the office, the inquiries inbox, and a quiet running list of which models cannot be booked on the same day. She is pursuing an evening law degree.
By Appointment