Eileen Ford, co-founder of Ford Models, has passed away at 92. Ford founded the Ford Modeling Agency — as it was originally called — with her husband Gerald W. Ford in 1946, and it quickly ...

Ford Models founders Gerald and Eileen Ford pose with model Roshumba Williams and stylist Phillip Bloch at Ford Models’ Supermodel of the World after-party at New York’s Bryant Park Hotel in 2004.

Eileen Ford ran her modeling agency for more than 40 years, and in that time she cast a maternal but demanding eye on the young women — and eventually young men — whom she represented.