How FashionDB counts shows, calculates rankings, and computes the statistics shown across the site.
FashionDB is a database of publicly available information about the fashion industry. Everything on the site is derived from the same underlying records: runway shows, the people and brands credited on them, agency rosters, and profile attributes published by agencies and other public sources. This page explains how those records turn into the counts, rankings, and percentages you see.
The database tracks runway shows (recorded as "check-ins") together with the models, designers, casting directors, and other credits for each show. Alongside the shows, it tracks agency rosters and publicly available profile attributes — measurements, hair and eye color, color season, and nationality and ethnicity as published by agencies and industry sources such as models.com.
Each runway appearance is one show credit for the person credited on it. Only runway shows count toward scores — presentations, campaigns, editorials, and other bookings are not part of any score. Scores are built from those show credits with this formula:
Points = Brand Q Rating ^ exponent (2026: ^2.0, 2025: ^1.95, 2024: ^1.9, 2023: ^1.85, 2022: ^1.8). Only runway shows count toward the score. For models, show openers and closers receive a 3x multiplier.
A ranking score is a prestige-weighted runway index: every runway show a person works contributes points based on the prestige (Q Rating) of the brand, and more recent years carry more weight through the rising exponent series above. Because the formula uses only runway shows and brand prestige, campaigns, bookings, and social following do not affect rankings.
Rankings for creative roles such as makeup artists compare work across every recorded job type — runway shows, brand campaigns, magazine editorials, magazine covers, lookbooks, and an "Other" column for anything without one of those types. Each column counts distinct credited check-ins for that person in that role, and Total Jobs is the sum across all supported work types. A person's work in other roles (for example modeling) is never counted in their creative-role columns, and duplicate credits on the same job count once.
Fashion Score remains runway-only: commercial jobs are shown as counts but do not currently add points. The model opener/closer 3x multiplier applies only to models — never to makeup artists or other creative roles.
The demographic charts on agency, fashion week, and brand pages are computed from the profiles in that group. Attributes such as nationality and ethnicity come from public sources — agency profiles and models.com — so they are sourced, not self-reported to us and not inferred by AI.
Coverage. Not every profile lists every attribute. Where a chart notes how many profiles a value was recorded for, the profiles without a recorded value still exist in the group — the caption tells you how complete the data is for that attribute.
Multi-valued attributes. Some attributes can hold more than one value per profile — a model may be listed with more than one ethnicity or more than one nationality. Where that is the case, the percentages for that attribute can add up to more than 100%.
Rounding. Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number, so a column of percentages may not total exactly 100%.
Statistics are computed from the live database and cached briefly for performance. Cached values refresh on a schedule measured in minutes to hours, so a very recent change may take a short while to appear on every page.
The rankings and statistics on FashionDB describe public runway activity only. Model applications submitted to the site are analyzed privately and are never included in the public statistics or rankings.
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