Former IMG Models President Ivan Bart Dies at 60

Ivan Bart, the previous president of IMG Fashions has died on the age of 60, based on a publish printed to his Instagram account.

Over a decades-long profession, Bart helped steer the careers of a few of style’s most well-known faces. Below his oversight, IMG represented fashions together with Kate Moss, Tyra Banks and Gigi and Bella Hadid.

He additionally pushed to make the modelling business extra inclusive. He was named president of IMG Fashions in 2014, the identical 12 months Ford Fashions closed its plus-size division. Ashley Graham and different plus-size fashions dropped by Ford have been shortly snapped up by IMG.

In 2017, Graham was the primary plus-size mannequin to look on the covers of British and American Vogue. In a tribute posted to Instagram, the mannequin described Bart as “some of the integral elements” of her profession. “Your affect has moved mountains and damaged down so many partitions for myself and so many others,” Graham stated.

As information of Bart’s dying unfold, distinguished figures within the modelling business paid homage to the manager. “You have been such a constructive pressure,” mannequin Naomi Campbell stated in a touch upon the publish asserting Bart’s passing. “Have a delicate relaxation — you stunning tenacious groundbreaking soul,” stated fellow mannequin Paloma Elsesser.

You have been really one in 1,000,000,” casting director James Scully stated in a publish to his personal account. “You gave a lot of your self to so many and [it] appears unfathomable to lose you when your subsequent chapter was simply starting.”

Bart stepped down from his place as president of IMG Fashions in March, however remained a senior advisor on the company till his dying.