Nagoya Women’s Marathon launches a new fashion model project “GO WOMEN × GO RUNWAY”

Monday, February 20, 2023 Audition will be held to find “Sporty Models” to be featured on the 2024 race poster The Nagoya Women’s Marathon, a passionate supporter and admirer of women in the marathon sport with the slogan “GO WOMEN,” is delighted to launch a new project, “GO RUNWAY,” to support women who aim to break onto the international fashion/model scene. As the first step of the project, the “GO RUNWAY” audition, a public audition to find “Sporty Models” who have a healthy and sporty mindset, will be held. Applications will be accepted from the general public, and those who pass the document screening will be invited to a face-to-face audition at the Nagoya Women’s Marathon Expo venue on Saturday, March 11, 2023, the day before the Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2023. Those selected as “Sporty Models” will not only be featured in the main visual for the Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2024 (to be held in March 2024), but will also be introduced to partner corporations, listed as models with a leading modeling agency in Japan, and receive professional training that will pave the way for a leap onto the world stage (RUNWAY). At the Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2024, a health and sports-themed fashion show, “GO WOMEN x GO RUNWAY,” will be staged. The place where the world’s top athletes compete head-to-head and Japan’s national marathon team is selected will be transformed into a glamorous runway of approximately 90 meters long. For inquiries about this event, please contact: “GO WOMEN × GO RUNWAY” Model Audition Management Office https://www.ipsilon-japan.com/audition_gorunway Nagoya Women’s Marathon “GO WOMEN × GO RUNWAY” Partner IPSILON Inc. https://www.ipsilon-japan.com/ IPSILON Inc. is a Tokyo-based modeling agency with a long history, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. It has a large number of models who have appeared in the Paris and Milan collections, as well as in Vogue and other leading fashion magazines. In addition, the agency has many models from different generations who have appeared in commercials for cars, interiors, home appliances, and other products that enrich people’s lives and are expanding their fields of activity. It also supports businesses with its multidiscipline network by casting members that fit the purpose and theme, such as fashion, beauty, luxury, and lifestyle, and by building unique teams that best serve the purpose, such as product development, marketing, and branding proposals/supervision that cannot be replicated by others. Project Planning/Production Glitter Agency, Inc. https://glitter-agency.co.jp/en/ Glitter Agency, Inc. is a project/brand production company that creates new content and brightens people’s lives through the combination of the Agency Sector, which supports models and athletes, and the Communication Sector, which provides planning, production, and marketing services. Please find a link below to images on this press release for your use under the copyright credit to Nagoya Women’s Marathon: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y3iJZleXMGH_81MPIkQbmJQmj3WQX1Rt/view?usp=share_lin About Nagoya Women’s Marathon The Nagoya Women’s Marathon is the largest women’s marathon in the world certified by Guinness World Records, held annually in March in Nagoya city, Japan. It was launched on March 11, 2012, with 13,114 participants, reformed from the Nagoya International Women’s Marathon, the elite-only women’s race known as the qualifying trial that had sent off many Japanese star athletes to the international competitions, including two Olympic gold medalists Naoko Takahashi and Mizuki Noguchi. It holds the World Athletics Platinum Label status and has now grown to an event of 22,000 participants. For playing a significant role in the increase of women runner population in Japan, the race was awarded the International Olympic Committee Women and Sport Achievement Diploma in 2019, after receiving the Japan Olympic Committee Women and Sport Award in 2017. For more information about the Nagoya Women’s Marathon, please visit: https://womens-marathon.nagoya/en/