Cindy Crawford signs with new agency

CINDY CRAWFORD has called upon IMG to take all areas of her career into the next sphere. The 40-year-old mother-of-two wants the global company, which has employees in 30 countries and two divisions comprising Sports & Entertainment and IMG Media, to stir up the licensing prowess of her Cindy Crawford Home label and other business interests which include the Meaningful Beauty skincare line, signature fragrances with Cosmopolitan Cosmetics and an ongoing role as spokeswoman for Omega watches. Among the first models to recognise her potential to earn off the catwalk and capitalise on her fame, Crawford originally gave up studying chemical engineering at Northwestern University when she realised how lucrative modelling could be for her. One of the fashion world's most recognisable faces in the Nineties, she was named the highest paid model by Forbes in 1995 with an approximate annual earnings of £3.5 million . [Vogue]