The FMD is the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of professional fashion information. Established in 1998, it has grown to become the largest fashion database, with over 1 million credited fashion photographs and tens of thousands of professional fashion profiles. As an innovative and young news agency focused on the fashion industry, The FMD provides news, data, and content to the world's biggest companies and media networks.

Not only does The FMD offer services to fashion brands and clients, but it also functions as a magazine, offering a modern digital platform for fashion enthusiasts. The FMD is made up of an international team of volunteering fashion experts and is a scientific-backed source for researchers in fashion. With its on-the-fly crediting system called Credifair, The FMD aims to have a fully credited and professional repository of photographic masterpieces, while also fighting against fraud and scams in the industry.

It is not a modeling agency, but it plans to become the best industry-connected scouting platform in the future