A model is a person with a role either to display commercial products or to serve as an artist's model or to pose for photography.
A female model posing on a typical studio shooting set
Models on runway at a fashion show
Jean Shrimpton in 1965
Beverly Johnson in 2007
A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase their upcoming line of clothing and/or accessories during a fashion week. Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the spring/summer and fall/winter seasons. This is where designers seek to promote their new fashions. The four major fashion weeks in the world, collectively known as the "Big 4", in chronological order of their eponymous fashion weeks, are those held in New York City, London, Milan, and Paris. Berlin fashion week is also of global importance.
Liu Wen, a supermodel, walking the catwalk as she models fashions by designer Diane von Fürstenberg at New York Fashion Week in 2013
Paris fashion and runway at the turn of the century
Finnish actress Elina Salo presenting clothes designed by Vuokko Nurmesniemi at a fashion show in the Helsinki Botanical Garden in 1958
Example of an elaborate stage set used for the Chanel Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2011 show