Sandhurst Tacama Miggins

Sandhurst Tacama Miggins (born April 24, 1986 in Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago), is a fashion model best known as a contestant and 1st runner-up of the show Make Me a Supermodel, Season 2. He was named after the Sandhurst Royal British Military Academy.^[3] Sandhurst Miggins currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but is originally from Tobago.^[4]

Early life

Miggins was born in 1986 in the Southern Caribbean island of Tobago, the sister island to Trinidad. His mother is Deborah Moore-Miggins, a lawyer and former Senator in Trinidad & Tobago. Miggins was named after the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.^[5] Miggins spent his later teen years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was an avid dancer.^[1] Miggins has taken 12 years of ballroom dance, and has also studied ballet, tap, modern, and African dance forms.^[6] Miggins studied ballet at the prestigious Rock School for Dance Education in Pennsylvania. He later relocated to Philadelphia to attend Temple University and major in Public Relations. He started his career in modeling in 2008, when he was picked out of a crowd by Dianne Hunt of Radical Designs during Trinidad & Tobago's inaugural Fashion week, and was asked to walk in a runway show.^[7]

Make Me a Supermodel

Sandhurst was 22 years old at the time of the show.^[8] At six feet three inches tall, Miggins was literally head and shoulders over many of the 15 other competitors on the show. He won three episodes and been in the top three 11 out of 13 weeks. In one episode, models were asked to choose an accessory and then photographed wearing only that. Miggins’ photo — in which he is crouched like a runner on his mark, leather gloves his only adornment — is a sleek testimony to his years of classical dance training. Ironically, although dancing gave him one of the most toned bodies on the show, he has had to give it up to pursue his dream to be a professional model. Slender by Caribbean standards, Miggins’ quadriceps and gluteus maximus are bulky for a model and dance makes them bigger.^[9]

Career

After appearing on the second season of Bravo's Make Me A Supermodel, in which he ultimately placed second, Miggins signed with New York Model Management in New York City.^[10] Miggins walked for various designers in Brooklyn’s Bikini under the bridge Fashion show in 2008, organised by esteemed Caribbean fashion editor Walter Greene. Miggins was photographed by noted Caribbean photographer Calvin French for the July 2008 issue of Caribbean Belle Magazine.^[11] Miggins was set to appear in the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, however, his role as back-stage commentary was cut from the final show.^[12] On June 20, 2009 Miggins modeled for the Paul Mitchell Esani Institute. Miggins worked in the events preceding Trinidad & Tobago Carnival 2010 as a model and promoter for Antilia, a Caribbean public relations and event planning firm.^[13] He remains a Trinidad & Tobago Carnival fixture.^[14] In February 2010 Miggins modeled in a photo shoot directed by Jonathan Mannion in Trinidad & Tobago.^[15] Miggins is still a fixture at Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago, regularly walking for Millhouse Mens, Meiling and Radical Designs.^[16] Miggins co-hosted Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago 2010 alongside Jamaican-American supermodel Tyson Beckford.^[17] Miggins was the feature guest model for Anthony Reid for Meiling at Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago 2010.^[18] Miggins landed a minor acting role as a photographer in a Martin Scorsese-directed commercial for Chanel, set to premiere in September 2010.^[15] Tyson Beckford, host/judge of Make Me A Supermodel, continues to serve as one of Miggins' mentors. According to Fashion Week Trinidad & Tobago coverage, Miggins plans to relocate to Europe.^[19]

References

External links

• Sandhurst Tacama Miggins at the Internet Movie Database
• Sandhurst Tacama Miggins at Bravo
• New York Model Management