Differences on Eelin and Catwalk

Hello, my name is Manuel Smith, No. 1 More then Blue fan from Johor.

Today, I am going to discuss about Eelin and Catwalk, whom they are the leaders in Taiwanese creative industry, booming Taiwanese economy into all time high.

So, what you seen just now, is Jasper Liu, from Eelin, and Annie Chen, from Catwalk, on More than Blue box office gratitude ceremony. They are the successful symbol of both Eelin and Catwalk, in terms of acting and modelling career. They are the leading cast for this film, along with Ivy Chen and Bryan Chang, and also starring Emma Wu and Bruce Hung, whose him prominence starts from Café Waiting·Love. Along with More than Blue, this film is also distributed by MM2 Entertainment in Malaysia, in 2014.

Although Eelin and Catwalk are successful role in Taiwanese showbiz, but there are different in terms of establishing year, high ranking artists, and management.

First, in terms of foundation year, Catwalk was founded in 1986 by Ivan Hong, in Xinyi District, before Taiwan became a democracy nation in 1987. As for Eelin, it was founded in 1997 and based in Zhongzheng District, which is current headquarter and as afull subsidiary of Waant Want China Times since 2012, while Catwalk is a fully independent private company.

In terms of the founders, Catwalk's Ivan Hong, the pioneer of Taiwanese fashion culture,

was born in Hong Kong in 1951 and moved to Taiwan during his childhood. Started himself as employee at Singapore Airlines after dropping out at second year of NTNU, which he claimed one of best times at there. A proficient dancer, he started his career as dancer and choreographer from Ouyang Feifei, before joining fashion industry in 1978. Before founded Catwalk, he became trainee at Elite Model Agency in USA for 3 months, before returned to Taiwan as show director and wardrobe stylist, whom one of his prominent work is Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing, by Cinema City,

while being nominated as best Wardrobe designer for Golden Horse Awards in 1983. As a founder of Catwalk and Taiwanese wardrobe design pioneer, he is the one who makes Lin chi-ling become a prominent Taiwanese superstar, and active in Taiwanese and Asian showbiz.

Not only creating various prominent acting stars like Annie Chen, the lead of My Goddess and More than Blue as Cindy, along with Eelin's Jasper Liu as main lead,

he is the one who signs Christopher Lee and Fann Wong,

after they left MediaCorp. Christopher Lee is the first Malaysian to join Catwalk, while Fann Wong is the first Singaporean to join Catwalk since their signing in 2012, themselves as fitst husband and wife to join Catwalk and MediaCorp veteran artist. Besides it, Ivan is also responsible for signing Frederick Lee, who makes his career great again with various prominent production, including You Mean the World to Me, which is rated 18 in Malaysia for suicide content. Being fashion industry leader, himself is a LGBT supporter while being a prominent gay male.

As for Teresa Chen, born 31 January 1966, she started her career as model in 1982, at the age of 16. From becoming a model she rose her rank as a show director and a coach, before founded Eelin in 1997 as a Managing Director. Being the Goddess of Modern Taiwanese Showbiz, she has the responsibility to boost various artists, including Jasper Liu,

singer Jimmy Lin, and also Chang Chin-lan, my Eelin goddess before leaving Eelin as independent artist. Unlike Ivan Hong, a high ranking LGBT, she, herself is a straight, who is a mother.

Along with founders, one of a difference among the two companies is the signature artist.

For Catwalk itself, prominent artists and models including Lin Chi-ling,

Annie Chen, known for More than Blue and My Goddess

and Christopher and Frederick Lee, as well as Fann Wong from Singapore.

Christopher and Frederick Lee have history in Malaysian and Singapore showbiz, before becoming Catwalker, in 2012 and 2015. Being Catwalker, Frederick is active in both TV and film, prominently casting as Louis Yuen in Revolving Heart by NTV7,

starring Debbie Goh as the main female lead, whom she serves as the main producer.

Known as first Miss Astro winner from Johor in 1998, she is highly recognized Malaysian female artists, that has various successful production.

As for Eelin, there is also various prominent artists, starting with Jasper Liu that I mentioned above, whom he started his career as Eelin Super Model Contest 2008 Top 3.

Along with prominent acting like Take Me to The Moon,

My Goddess,

and More than Blue, that stars as leukemia musician, Chang Che-kai (K), also with Aniie Chen as Cindy the photographer,

he is highly active is various films and TV, and also featured in various commercials and being brand ambassadors for prominent brands, including Visa Debit, Samsung Galaxy A8/A8+, and Colgate, as well as Hyundai Motor.

Besides, there are more prominent artists in Eelin, including Chang Chin-lan, who left Eelin in 2015, being the first one to do so.

Being ex-Eelinite, she herself has various prominent acting in films in TV, including PMAM, My Geeky Nerdy Buddies as Ah Mei, copyright Warner Bros. Taiwan, Say I Love You as Shi Liangyu (Guo Guo)'s arts teacher who likes the main lead, and Wu Yuting in Struggling Girls, along with Jennifer Yin-yin Kang, by Public Television Service. Various prominent Eelinite including, Liya Wang, born 1983.

Known for her healthy and sexy look, she is one of the highly known Eelin Star, in varipous prominent brands, including Voda Swim. Shatina Chen, born December 6, 1947 in Taipei.

This veteran Eelinite is knows as Taiwan No.1 legs. Being the No.1 Taiwan long leg, this supermodel is a symbol of sexy and healthy along with Liya Wang. As a supermodel, she is also a host for Models Go, a variety television series. Herself is also an actress, one known here is The Teen Age as schoolteacher.

One of main different about Catwalk and Eelin is, Eelin also handles musicians. Known musicians including Jasper Liu, Jimmy Lin, that belonged to A-Star, an Eelin company, who is known as Taiwanese Susan Boyle. He left Eelin in 2017, and founded his own workshop.

Currently, along with Jasper Liu, Eelin also handles a boy band, named Noovy.

Along with Jimmy Lin, noovy belonng to Sony Music, being the first Eelin's boy band to do so. In addition with noovy, Eelin handles Boi!, the first male hip hop group since 1997.

Compared to Catwalk, Eelin plays an important role in television shows, FTA and cable television alike. The first Eelin TV program was Models Go Go Go, started airing in December 2015, one month before the end of Kangxi Coming on CTI Variety. Broadcasting free to air on CTS, this show had aired four season, the last season was aired starting weeks after end of University and beginning of Sleepless Kidult, with the show ended before the end of Models Go Go Go S4. Models Go Go Go was subsequently replaced by Models Go 2 for 3 months, in CTV Main Channel, starting from April 2017 to July 2017.

Besides Models Go series, Eelin plays an important role in productions of The Queen's Legendary Show, host by Regine Wu, as a replacement for Sleepless Kidult, since the termination of this show at December 2016. The Queen's Legendary Show is the first Eelin show on Astro AEC, starting with December 2018. Before the start of this talk show, Eelin founded an academy call Eelin College, a joint venture of Hsing Wu University and Eelin, to create the new talents for Taiwanese creative industries, in right way.

These are some differences among Eelin and Catwalk. However, with the differences, it can bring a good competition among them, to the the best of the best in Taiwanese creative industry. Feel free to comment more if you have better opinion. Thank you for viewing This is Manuel Smith, signing off.

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