Ms Bransgrove and her Queenstown-based business partner Tracie Patel will run a two-day training camp for 10 aspiring models at Cromwell this weekend.
Ms Bransgrove (46), whose career included almost three years in New York with Ford Models, returned to New Zealand in the mid-1990s and has since established three fashion companies.
She runs Amanda Bransgrove Photography, Catwalk Studios and Monarch Models from Auckland and recently opened a Monarch Models agency in Queenstown.
Ms Bransgrove wanted to share her experience, advice and knowledge of the industry with those hoping to be a part of its future.
Returning to Cromwell was about ''giving back'' to the community in which she grew up, she said.
Camp participants will learn about the different career pathways in the fashion industry, in front of and behind the camera, as well as how to walk on a runway, pose for fashion photography and model clothes.
They will be given a makeover, styled and photographed in a ''fashion editorial'', to have professional images for a portfolio. The camp will cost each model $350. Modelling was much more than good looks, she said.
''It's about energy; how you walk and move. You don't have to be the most beautiful girl to come alive on the runway or in front of the camera. It's like any craft, there's a whole lot of skill behind it,'' she explained.
Ms Bransgrove was born and raised in Cromwell. Aged 17 she won the Miss Central Otago beauty contest, and was named Miss Photogenic at the subsequent Otago competition in Dunedin.
She moved to Wellington and started a modelling career, as well as her 18-year ''side'' career behind the lens as a make-up and wardrobe artist in the film industry.
At the age of 28 when she thought her modelling career was over she got a three-year contract with Ford in New York, after which she returned to New Zealand and studied to be a photographer.
